The "Energy Efficiency: European Plastics and Rubber Machines Well Placed" study was released by EUROMAP - Europe's Association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers on November 29. According to the report author Dr Otto Urbanek, ...
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Here’s a message from people who sell injection molding machines: The joy is back. Sales have increased for two years in a row, after a steady 10-year decline. That should continue in 2012. The U. S. Injection press market is nearing ...
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The Ohio Tax Credit Authority has awarded Milacron LLC a state tax credit for the plastics machinery maker’s recent $1.5 million capital equipment investment expansion at its machining plant in Mount Orab, Ohio. Milacron is buying ...
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Machinery executives say U.S. sales of blow molding machinery have held up in 2011, following a 2010 that was marked by a strong bounce-back from the Great Recession. Makers of packaging — PET blow molders and extrusion blow molders ...
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Injection press maker Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH used the Fakuma show to roll out its NC5 plus controller and the largest size yet of its Systec hydraulic press. Sumitomo Demag officials said the NC5 plus is easier to use ...
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Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH will generate about 250 million euros ($338 million) in 2011 sales, an increase of 22 percent thanks to a rebounding economy and new products from the maker of injection molding machines, robots and auxiliary ...
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Extruders make everything from medical tubing and film and sheet for packaging — Strong markets— To vinyl windows and siding — These days, not so hot. The diversity sums up the North American extruder market in 2011. The ...
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At Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH’s open house event in Wiehe facility in September, the company’s process development specialist André Luck described the ActiveLock and ActiveFlowBalance systems and how ...
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Pushed by the record-high yen and economic problems at home, Japan’s large plastic machinery manufacturing industry is accelerating its investment in lower-cost countries, expanding both in China and elsewhere in Asia. Japan Steel ...
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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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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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While the market is still booming in China, the country’s top machine makers are looking to expand outside their borders. And they’re interested in more than just exports. In countries like Brazil, India and Russia, Chinese ...
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The last five years have brought big changes to China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. The maker of injection molding machines has more than doubled sales to 7.05 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) solely on organic growth, launched ...
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Haitian International Holdings Ltd., China's largest injection press maker, saw revenues rise 15 percent in the first half of the year to 3.70 billion yuan ($578.3 million), as record-high exports, particularly to Southeast Asia and Eastern ...
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Italy's financial problems are having an impact on plastics machinery suppliers. Most of the large delegation of Italian plastics firms that had planned to attend Thailand's Tiprex trade show pulled out after Italy canceled government ...
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