At Plast 2026, HT-Cooling presents the latest developments in its range for industrial cooling and process temperature control, developed to meet the plastics industry’s requirements for efficiency, reliability and sustainability. Among the new products exhibited by the company, particular attention is devoted to the...

The twentieth edition of Plast, Europe’s leading trade fair this year for the plastics and rubber industry, opened on 9 June 2026 with the ribbon-cutting ceremony in Corso Italia, the central decumanus of Fiera Milano in Rho, near Milan. Xylexpo and Composites Future were also inaugurated alongside...

The plastics processing industry is undergoing a profound phase of industrial renewal. Companies are being driven to manage energy resources and materials with great care, updating their production models to respond to a market that is increasingly demanding in terms of efficiency. In this context...

RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers brings to Plast 2026 solutions that enable innovation in the most strategic markets, through an approach based on collaboration with the customer, shared design and the ability to turn complex application requirements into concrete industrial solutions. Indeed...

Smart Mold, a company 50% owned by Sirmax Group and specialised in optimising the plastics injection moulding process, presents Aria at Plast 2026, the new artificial intelligence-based software designed to support injection moulding in the management of process adjustments, making them faster and more repeatable...

Luigi Piovan, founder and for more than forty years the guiding force behind one of Italy’s most renowned companies worldwide in the field of automation for plastics, passed away on 7 June at the age of 91. Since 1964, he had led the company’s growth, shaping its development and transforming it...

Gefran presents itself at Plast 2026 with an integrated portfolio of technologies and services resulting from fifty years of presence in the plastics market, which have translated into verticalised production, high technological expertise and solid application know-how gained in the field in extrusion, injection and blow moulding processes...

Official distributor for the Italian market of Haitian- and Zhafir-branded injection moulding machines, Haitian MM Italy takes part in Plast 2026 presenting four fifth-generation machines for the processing of thermoplastic materials: two electric machines and two servo-hydraulic machines, representing...

For years, 3D printing has focused primarily on geometry. Today, the real challenge is different: controlling not only the shape of objects, but also the very nature of the material from which they are made. This is where multimaterial comes into play, one of the most promising directions in...

The 11th Injection, Blow Moulding & PET – International Summit & Exhibition (IMBM 2026) – scheduled on 30 June and 1 July in Mumbai, India, and organised by ElitePlus++ – has witnessed strong early participation from the global rigid plastics industry, reinforcing its position as the world’s largest...