New Auxiliary Equipment / TSM Control Systems is now offering plastics producers new ways to weather the economic storm and improve their profit margins. New TSM technology focuses on combining standard processing requirements; accurate ...
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Dr Boy GmbH & Co KG announced recently that it is supplying two more injection molding machine, Boy 35 E to worldwide model railroad manufacturer Märklin. “It is remarkable that we could manage a re-organization without any new ...
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With the start of a new year, Plastics News restates its editorial agenda. The plastics industry has made important progress in many of these areas in the past decade, and we applaud the efforts. * Safety must be every company’s top ...
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New plant produces parts for countervailing joint systems GKN Driveline opened a new precision forging operation at Oragadam, India, to supply parts to its nearby CVJ Systems plant. That operation produces 1.2 million side shafts annually ...
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Sustainable packaging upstart Ecovative Design LLC has received tremendous attention over the past year for its disruptive technology introduction of protective packaging materials grown from agricultural byproducts bound together by ...
The IK Industrievereinigung trade association says plastic packaging companies have “more positive expectations” than in the last quarter of 2011, despite anticipating higher raw material prices. The German association says 66% ...
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Assocomaplast, the association of Italian plastics and rubber machinery producers, has announced the industry’s estimated turnover for 2011, showing growth of 11.1%. Production value increased from €3.6bn in 2010 to €4bn ...
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In a surprising reversal, a 5-cent North American polyethylene price increase that seemed to have faded away in December actually took hold in the market. Many buyers contacted mid-month by Plastics News indicated that they did not expect ...
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Dorner's 2200 Series low profile belt conveyor with the latest advancements in belt and drive technology increases its weight carrying capacity to a 200 pound maximum load. The 2200 Series is able to move these heavy load while maintaining ...
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Spansion Inc., provider of Flash memory technology, has won the 2011 City of Austin Environmental Awareness Award for its outstanding success in water conservation and greenhouse gas reduction. Spansion began a multi-year water conservation ...
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Use heat exchanger, in order to save hot water can save a lot of heat energy, but also to open up or close tankless tankless, electric, or you can not have the possibility of a tinyhouse hot water system, because they need too much power. ...
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Chinese PET producers report that they are planning to increase their export sales in 2012 as competition within the domestic market will heat up this year due to some large new capacity additions scheduled to come on-line in 2012. China is ...
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Middle Eastern PP offers for January have come down from their December levels in Asia and Egypt in line with sluggish buying interest and the approaching Chinese New Year holiday which will take place in the last week of January. A Saudi ...
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Taiwan exported US$17.684 billion worth of machinery in the first 10 months of 2011, up 26.5% from a year earlier, according to customs-cleared statistics compiled by the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI). The sector of ...
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SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT affiliate Infilco Degremont Inc. (IDI) and its sister company Anderson Water Power & Technologies will design and supply a retrofit wastewater treatment system for the chloride purge stream from the wet Flue Gas ...
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