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On the occasion of the closing of the editorial office of MacPlas for Christmas holidays, the updating of the website MacPlas Online is suspended until January 9, 2022, and the next MacPlas E-News newsletter in English will be sent on January 12, 2022. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year...

As of January 1, 2022, Plastoplan Kunststoffhandel has been appointed the RadiciGroup distributor in Austria for a wide product range that includes Radilon, Heramid, Radiflam, Radistrong, Raditer, Heraflex, Torzen, Heraform And Raditeck. “Our Group,” said Rolf Behringer, sales manager...

The full-year forecast developed by Mecs-Amaplast statistical studies centre shows double-digit growth in 2021 for the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment, and moulds industry. “According to our estimates,” Amaplast president Dario Previero stated, “at the close of...

100% of the shares of the US Ipeg Group, comprised of the four brands Conair, Thermalcare, Pelletron and Tepublic Machine, has been acquired by Piovan. The combined group will have a workforce of more than 1,800 employees, will operate 14 facilities worldwide, and would have generated pro-forma sales of over 450 million euros...

A further expansion of the Jindal Films Europe Plant in Brindisi will create minimum 20 highly qualified jobs and add a capacity of further 50,000 tons on top of the current production volume of the site. This additionally produced volume will be mainly dedicated to Jindal's new innovative BOPE specialty film grades, including...

International consultancy RecycleMe and Stadler Anlagenbau have announced their cooperation to conduct sorting tests to determine the recyclability of packaging in a unique alliance along the recycling value chain. The tests will be conducted at the recently opened state-of-the-art Stadler Test and Innovation Center in Slovenia for RecycleMe...

Thanks to an investment of 10 million euros in high-end equipment, Sirmax Group has been able to increase its production capacity significantly. A specialist in the production of polypropylene compounds, engineering polymers, compounds from post-consumer plastic waste and bio-based compounds for various application sectors...

A new general manager for Bandera US, the new North American branch of Bandera, a market leader for blown film production and recycling lines. Mattia Gambarotto (in the picture) will focus his activity to strengthen the company’s market position as well as to shape the North American service activity including...

The Board of Directors of Piovan reviewed and approved the Periodic Financial Information as of September 30, 2021. “The results obtained in these first nine months of 2021 confirm a strong growth in sales volumes in line with the excellent trends of the previous months, with a substantial increase in margins resulting in...

Through its company in China, Radici Plastics Suzhou, RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers has signed an agreement with Duromer for the distribution of its products in Australia. “We have collaborated with Duromer for some years now”, Alberto Sessolo, general manager of Radici Plastics Suzhou...

Double digit growth continues for the plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment, and moulds industry, represented by the trade association Amaplast. Based on the most recent economic survey by the Mecs statistical studies centre, compared to the first three quarters of 2020, January-September 2021 showed...

The end-of-year events will be once again an opportunity to know and discover the new products of Moretto. Having overcome the long events’ absence caused by the pandemic, the company based in Massanzago (Padua, Italy) returns to attend in an active way the main trade fairs all over the world, living again...

A sustainable five-million-euro minibond issued by Crocco, a company based in Cornedo Vicentino (Vicenza, Italy) operating in the flexible packaging sector, has been fully subscribed by UniCredit. As a Sustainability-Linked Bond this loan represents a sustainable financial instrument from all points of view. The transaction provides...

A new partnership with Manupackaging Group, which is one of the biggest players in the stretch-film market in Europe and Latin America, has been announced by Colines. Further the strategic decision to update their machine fleet, Manupackaging has chosen Colines as a supplier of two brand-new cast lines for stretch film production for...

The leader in self-extinguishing and high-performance thermoplastic compounds, Lati, and the leading provider of sustainable hemp plastics, The Hemp Plastic Company, announced that the parties have signed an agreement for the distribution of The Hemp Plastic Company’s line of ecological hemp blended plastics. These hemp plastics are...

Coverage of procurement and efficiency gains in the nylon waste recovery industry: these are the motivations behind the acquisition of a significant shareholding (around 32%) in the Norwegian Nofir by Aquafil. Nofir, based in Bodø, Norway, is a leading European player in the collection and...

Two more ALLrollEX 3000mm lines were supplied by Colines to Grupo Reyma, thus reinforcing a collaboration started about two years ago. Manufacturers since 1970 of plastic materials (bags, jars, cups, containers, plates and other food packaging, as well as cling film and stretch film reels), the Grupo Reyma has...

The SmartDuty PET foil extrusion plant by Bandera, whose construction began in mid-2021 to be available for delivery starting from the end of October, has been sold to a major Italian converter. This line is part of the “Ready-to-Perform” production programme developed by the...

There is also Icma San Giorgio among the companies selected for the third edition of "Imprese Vincenti" (“Winning Company”), an initiative of Intesa Sanpaolo bank taking place in these days. The company from San Giorgio su Legnano (near Milan) was one of the protagonists of the first of eight virtual stages, held on...

On September 13, Coim inaugurated a new automated self-supporting warehouse at its facility in Offanengo (near Cremona, Italy), following an investment of over 10 million euros. The purpose of the project, aimed in part at supporting the increase in Coim business, was to create a warehouse inside the factory but...