South African bearings and couplers distributor Bearing Man Group (BMG) will add housed bearing units to its product offering, following the acquisition of bearing solutions company QM Bearings by industrial movement technology manufacturer ...
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Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at last night’s glittering U.K.'s Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane. The ceremony, the 11th annual event to be run ...
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Spain’s Tuboplast CTL Group plans to invest $58.3m (€41.6m) to build a plastic tube plant in North Carolina, the US. The site will be the packaging supplier’s North American headquarters. The 42-year-old company currently ...
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JCIM LLC, the molding unit of auto interior supplier Johnson Controls Inc., has sold its blow molding operations in a move that will allow it to concentrate on its core production in injection molding. Engineered Plastic Components Inc. of ...
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Field Fastener, a leading fastener distributor, announced today that it will acquire Fastening Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Duncan Bolt. The acquisition, to be completed by the end of the November, will extend Fields global footprint and ...
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Korbinian Kiesl, CEO of French injection moulding machinery producer Billion, says the company has achieved its best turnover - €35m in the 2010/11 financial year – since 2005, when Kiesl acquired the company. Speaking at this ...
Rectangular channeled heat exchangers can replace older technologies and relieve associated problems. Heat exchangers have been used in wastewater treatment plants for many years, usually in applications with hot water on one side — ...
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Tata Power, India's largest integrated private power Company has crossed 300 MW wind power capacity installation in the country. Tata Power's wind farms are spread across four states namely Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, ...
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Driven by profitability of its Thai subsidiary along with consistent efforts to explore overseas markets, Tycoons Group Enterprise Co., Ltd., a fastener maker in Taiwan, scored a 24% yearly growth in sales of NT$163 million for September, ...
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Judge Pat E. Morgenstern-Clarren of the U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Cleveland last Thursday, Oct. 27, approved the sale of the company to Germany's Würth Group for $3.9 million. She also waived the customary 14-day waiting period to ...
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Flooding in Thailand appear to have done major damage to some of the country’s plastics processors, according to reports emerging from machinery suppliers with sizable business there. Tokyo-based Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., for example, ...
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North American polypropylene resin prices have plummeted an average of 14 cents per pound since Oct. 1, with polyethylene prices taking a smaller, 3-cent drop since then as well. The PP swoon ends a two-month period in which prices were ...
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Engineered Plastic Components Inc. has completed its fourth acquisition of the past 12 months and expects to close a fifth by the end of the year. The newly added companies and individual plants have added diversity in both processing ...
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As Japan’s largest plastics show kicked off Oct. 25, the country’s machinery industry faces an uncertain time, with its global production up but companies under pressure to move manufacturing to low-cost spots. Japanese ...
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Table (1) Exports of Taiwan General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Products Table (2) Exports of Taiwan General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Destination Table (3) Taiwan Imports of General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Products Table (4) ...
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