Colines announced its new collaboration with Jorge Badilla, who will be in charge for the company of the following Central American countries: Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Jorge Badilla is a mechanical engineer with over...

The conference “Circularity of PET thermoforms: how to improve the collection and sorting of PET thermoforms?”, organised by the thermoforming working group of Petcore Europe, is scheduled to take place in Dijon and Beaune on 27 and 28 May. The European PET association, through...

The competitiveness of the European chemical industry continues to be under serious pressure, with no sign of improvement early in 2025, neither on the cost side, nor on the demand side. This is according to the report of Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council, on the...

The globally operating Engel Group has closed the 2024/2025 financial year with a turnover of approximately 1.5 billion euros. Despite a continued decline in market conditions, the injection moulding machine manufacturer held its ground and continued to expand its market share...

After Fimic and Nordson BKG, part of the Polymer Processing Systems (PPS) division of Nordson Corporation, announced in recent days that they were strengthening their partnership, which began in January 2025, Fimic has appointed Luna Artico (on the right, together with Erica Canaia, CEO of Fimic) as...

The new Horizon Europe-funded Greco project provides innovative biobased, biodegradable and recyclable food packaging based on novel PLA copolymers, functional coatings, additives and green catalysts. Greco aims to demonstrate the life cycle and techno-economic feasibility of...

As expected, Covestro made a moderate start to the 2025 fiscal year. Sales in the first quarter remained at the previous year’s level (3.51 billion euros) and amounted to 3.48 billion euros. This was 0.9% below the previous year’s figure. As expected, Ebitda fell by around 50% compared to the previous year. However...

“In the first quarter of 2025, Basf held its position in an increasingly challenging environment. Ebitda before special items was at about the level of the prior-year quarter and was in line with average analyst estimates,” said Basf’s Chief Financial Officer Dirk Elvermann at the presentation of...

The Piovan Group created Piovan Food & Powders, an important strategic evolution that rationalizes and unifies under a single brand the activities previously carried out by Piovan Penta and Fea in the sector of solutions for the food industry and industrial powder handling. Starting from...

Specialised in the construction of extrusion lines and dies, Tecno System has launched a collaboration with SGInPlast Soluciones Globales para la industria del plástico, chosen as the commercial representative for the distribution of its products in the Costa Rican, Caribbean, and Colombian markets...