MachinePoint, an internet-based trader of used machinery, says demand for its extrusion machinery is coming mostly from Asia and the middle East, as companies in developed markets are keeping investments to a minimum. Since 2009, demand for ...
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Global demand for pharmaceutical packaging is forecast to expand 5.5% annually to £ 39bn in 2015, according to a new report from Cleveland-based Freedonia Group. Western Europe, the US and Japan will account for more than 70% of the ...
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Nordson has agreed to acquire Constructiewerkhuizen G. Verbruggen, a company based in Belgium that produces flat dies and coextrusion equipment for makers of multilayer flexible packaging. Nordson did not say what it paid for Verbruggen, ...
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The global polyamide market is expected to grow at a mean annual rate of 2.4% from 2011 until 2020, according to a forecast by Germany-based market research and consulting firm PCI Nylon. The forecast is contained in an annual nylons ...
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German auxiliary equipment maker Single Temperiertechnik is opening its first China office, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, to sell its oil and water-operated temperature control systems for plastics processors. The Hochdorf-based firm ...
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Compression and injection moulding machinery producers are competing in improving closure moulding cycle time and energy consumption. But the target keeps moving, as European Plastics News reveals in a comparison two groups' data. Walter ...
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Eastman Chemical Co. sees big opportunities in China for its bisphenol A-free Tritan copolyester materials, as Beijing follows Canada and the European Union to ban BPA in baby bottles, and Chinese parents scramble to find safer ...
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China faces a trade deficit of plastics machinery, even though its export volume is three times the import volume. The key is price differences, said the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association. China exported 44, 493 units of ...
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US-based Lloyd Instruments has launched a new polymer testing instrument - the LS1 high performance single column materials testing machine, which can test materials up to 0.5 tonnes. The LS1 comes with test software functionality, slow ...
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Kreyenborg says it has in-creased productivity by integrating a new melt pump and screen changer into its existing system. The company says the Kreyenborg MB pump improves filtration and increases output by enabling short changeover times ...
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China's plastics machinery industry continued to grow in the first quarter, but the speed slowed down, according to data released by the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association (CPMIA). The country produced 66, 149 units of plastics ...
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Medical product suppliers Südpack Medica and Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) have joined forces to co-operate in manufacturing plastic film for the biopharmaceutical market. According to the agreement, SSB will use plastic film ...
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Beneath the eye-catching growth in China’s plastics machinery market, there are signs of big changes, with domestic-made equipment taking significant market share from imported machinery in what has become one of the world’s ...
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DuPont's 23rd Awards for Packaging Innovation has honoured new developments from global brand giants such as Gillette, Coca Cola, and Intel, Glaxo Smith Kline and Heinz - and their packaging partners. "The nominees and winners this year ...
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"Our industry is well-placed to cut machine-related energy consumption by around 20 percent by 2020, " Bernhard Merki, President of EUROMAP, the umbrella association of European plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers, is pleased to ...