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New CEO for Star Automation Europe: Kanji Yago has replaced Susumu Kuzuya. After almost ten years at the helm of the company, Kuzuya will take up new roles at the...

The Saudi converter Hesco has commissioned First - a joint venture between the Italian companies OMS Group and CBM Machines - to build a plant for the production of...

A seminar organized by Persico and Total took place at the Italian company’s headquarters in Nembro (Bergamo, Italy) on June 20 to present to processors and the trade press a...

According to ISTAT (the Italian institute for statistics) data on Italy’s imports and exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery in the first quarter...

The fourteenth Argenplas fair is being attended by around a dozen Italian companies, within a national collective participation coordinated...

On June 12 A. Schulman opened in Kerpen (Germany) the Academy centre for the development of new engineering polymers...

The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship has provided an opportunity for Rehau, German manufacturer...

Negotiations are currently under way that could result in Mossi & Ghisolfi purchasing PTA (purified terephthalic acid – the main raw material used...

Italy processed a total of 730 ktons of PVC in 2011, a result that represents a 3.9% drop on the figure recorded in 2010; the reduction mainly...

KraussMaffei Group, owned by Madison Capital Partners, is working with Goldman Sachs Group (GS) to find a buyer, people...

The pipe and profile extruders introduced by the Turkish manufacturer Lider Makina are equipped with Gilogik III PLCs and GF_Vedo HMIs (Human Machine Interface) developed...

The new Triplex unit developed by Colmec and presented at PLAST 2012 is equipped with three extruders and a 3-layer coextrusion head for...

The new BM11BW bagmaking machine developed by Elba and introduced at PLAST 2012, reaches a production speed of 400 shots/min for open-mouth...

Inglass-HRSflow has developed the MTS (MUltiTechSpring) injection moulding system which is mainly characterized by simplicity and...

As reported to ASSOCOMAPLAST (the Association of Italian rubber and plastics processing machinery manufacturers) by the Korean Institute for...

On the basis of data collected by the International Rubber Study Group, global rubber consumption approached 26 million tons in 2011 - representing an increase...

This is the mood of the members of EuPC (European Plastics Converters), as reported by their director Alexandre Dangis on 1 June during the association’s annual...

Although not comparable to other major European fairs for the sector, Plastpol 2012 (Kielce, 29 May - 1 June) is nevertheless worthy of interest both for...

Given the growing needs of a market in continual evolution, BD Plast has improved its range of screenchangers and introduced a new line of products. It has...

Robots in Campetella Robotic Center’s Skill series have been equipped with an X-series control system, creating the new E-series, launched at PLAST 2012. These...