Marketing

  • 04 April 2012

    Twelve mandrels

    The new Servotube printing machines with technology developed by Omso, based in Reggio Emilia (Italy), are introduced at PLAST 2012...
  • 04 April 2012

    Innovation for preforms

    During PLAST 2012, Sacmi, based in Imola (Bologna, Italy), introduces the new IPS (Injection Preform System)...
  • 04 April 2012

    100% electric

    A new all-electric injection moulding machine designed and manufactured by BMB, based in Brescia (Italy), has been introduced...
  • 28 March 2012

    PVC global market

    Now that the global recession has ended, the construction industry will again boost demand for PVC. The average annual growth rate of 3.3% seen...
  • 28 March 2012

    Biopolymers for Danone

    The Dutch manufacturer Avantium has announced a collaborative agreement with the multinational Danone, world’s number two...
  • 28 March 2012

    Austrian expansion

    Engel management has announced that its largest Austrian plant, in Schwertberg, will be further...
  • 28 March 2012

    Rubber recycling

    One of the more critical aspects of rubber regards the difficulty in recycling it: once it has been vulcanized, it loses its plasticity and cannot...
  • 28 March 2012

    Winning dice

    Adler di Barasso (VA) will present new machines at PLAST 2012 (Fiera Milano, 8-12 May), including the GF-123 dicer for inline granulation of...
  • 28 March 2012

    Electric blow moulding (2)

    Magic MP (Monza, Monza-Brianza, Italy) will display three electrical extrusion-blow moulding plants in operation at PLAST 2012; two of them...
  • 28 March 2012

    Standards for magnetic chucks

    The Working Group revising the European standard for the safety requirements of plastics and rubber presses (EN 289:2004+A1:2008) has requested a...
  • 28 March 2012

    Steady growth

    The 2011 final balance for the Italian plastics and rubber machinery industry confirms the forecasts worked out some months...
  • 21 March 2012

    New lab

    Farrel Corporation has recently opened their new state-of-the-art Process Laboratory & Customer Demonstration Facility. The lab is in...
  • 21 March 2012

    Efficient shredder

    CMG Granulatori, headquartered in Budrio (Bologna, Italy), introduces its new TRM-1200-47K-directdrive shredder with electric brushless...
  • 21 March 2012

    Hybrid presses with direct drive

    On the occasion of PLAST 2012 (Milan, 8-12 May), a new range of injection moulding machines with all-electric clamping and screw drive is introduced by Maicopresse...
  • 21 March 2012

    OMS grows

    Impianti OMS, headquartered in Verano Brianza (Monza Brianza, Italy), has just started the expansion of its factory, which will acquire...
  • 21 March 2012

    Proust armchair

    Among the founders of Italian post-modernism, Alessandro Mendini has always stood out for his exuberant style and unconventional sources of inspiration, creating...
  • 21 March 2012

    Single-station thermoforming

    On the occasion of PLAST 2012 (Milan, 8-12 May), Comi displays the updated version of the LaborForma single-station thermoforming machine. This...
  • 21 March 2012

    Processors under pressure

    EuPC states that plastics converting companies have come under renewed pressure through increasing raw materials prices. There has been a...
  • 21 March 2012

    Better than expected

    Generally speaking, 2011 was a greatly satisfying year for the Italian manufacturing industry of plastics & rubber processing machinery, equipment and...
  • 14 March 2012

    Expansion in the East

    The German chemical colossus Wacker Chemie of Munich has announced the expansion of its production of vinyl-acetate-ethylene (VAE) copolymers in its...