Company Evonik Industries is now bringing on to the market the successful TAICROS crosslinking booster in yet another promising application: As an additive in UV-curable clear coatings, TAICROS ensures chemical resistance and improved ...
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Plastics and rubber major Styron plans to raise polycarbonate prices in Europe from March 7 by Eur270/mt ($356/mt) due to unsustainably thin margins and feedstock cost increases, it said Thursday. "For the polycarbonate industry, 2012 ...
US manufacturing activity continues to grow steadily, buoyed by an increase in new orders and blue collar employment. The Institute for Supply Management index of manufacturing activity rose to 53.1 in January from 50.2 in December. ...
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Eagle x-ray inspection equipment detects and rejects foreign body contaminants including metal, glass, stone, bone, plastics and rubber in food products. The US-based firm said that Brazil’s food exports are expected to increase ...
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The UK glass industry (all sectors) produces an estimated 4 million tonnes of glass per year, divided as follows in the generalised subsectors of Container, Flat, Fibre and Domestic (including Crystal and Special Glass):/p> Production of ...
Taipei, Nov. 21, 2012 (CENS)--Thanks to upturn in orders from the U.S. and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Taiwan’s exports orders rose, for the second straight month, 3.2% year-on-year to US$38.38 billion in October, ...
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A European project to introduce labeling on injection molding machines that gives a rating for their energy consumption has completed the first stages. However it will be at least a year before the labeling system is launched by European ...
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Vietnam’s economic slowdown is proving a tough hurdle to overcome for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese plastics industry exporters, although some of them say they continue to see long-term potential there. Chinese and Taiwanese firms ...
Exports from Italy of extrusion machinery increased in the first half of 2012, while exports of injection moulding machines fell, according to Assocomaplast, the trade group representing the country's plastics and rubber machinery ...
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Most Taiwanese printing machinery suppliers experienced downturns during the first half of 2012 due both to global economic uncertainty and a growing rivalry between emerging competitors. According to the latest data issued by the ...
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Italy's imports and exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery continued to show positive trends in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the same period of 2011, with a 17% rise in overseas sales, said Assocomaplast, the ...
The Technical Committee TC 145 (Plastics and rubber machines) of CEN (European Committee for Standardization) – whose Presidency and Secretariat are managed by ASSOCOMAPLAST – is finalizing three standards: the first one ...
Tags: Policy&Standard, Winding machine, moulding machine, Tyre curing presses
BS EN 201: 2009 Plastics and rubber machines. Injection moulding machines. Safety requirements BS EN ISO 28941-1:2008 Poly(phenylene ether) (PPE) moulding and extrusion materials. Designation system and basis for specifications BS EN ...
Growing up together with China's plastics and rubber industries in the last 30 years, the promotional slogan of CHINAPLAS - "The Growth Engine for your industries" – is to bring out the show mission as continuing to bring plenty of ...
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China further consolidated its leading position as the most important market for German plastics and rubber machinery in 2011. German exports rose by 30.5% to 66.4m, up more than 60% on the previous year. “That is a new record for ...
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