The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) released a new report informing Canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across Canada. An additional 15% of plastic ...
The chairman and founder of China’s largest plastic pipe maker, China Liansu Group Holdings Ltd., has invested an additional HK$20.1 million (US$2.6 million) into the company, increasing his ownership share of the publicly-traded firm ...
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Bloomberg is reporting that Madison Capital Partners is exploring the sale of KraussMaffei Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of plastics equipment. Bloomberg reported the story on June 19, citing people familiar with the matter, ...
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The Society of Plastics Industry Inc. Today signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association. The two trade groups agree to exchange web links, publications and reports, business and market ...
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The US plastics industry has an “extremely good chance” to recover to production levels from before the global recession by the end of this year, barring a Eurozone meltdown or other unforeseen economic shocks, a senior official ...
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The NPE2012 plastics exposition, which took place April 1-5 in Orlando, Florida, substantially exceeded NPE2009 in size, and it attracted more participants from outside the United States than any other NPE in history, it was announced today ...
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CHINAPLAS 2012 is approaching to its final countdown, a series of promotional activities have been carried out in full swing by the organizer. With its great influence in the plastics and rubber industries, together with the flourishing ...
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As Africa’s plastics industry grows, Indian companies say they are picking up substantial business there, with exports rising for machinery firms, and India’s resin and processing companies making investments. The India factory ...
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Zhafir Plastics Machinery Ltd., a subsidiary of Chinese press maker Haitian International Holdings, will open its first regional office worldwide in India, reflecting what the company said is the importance it places on the Indian market. ...
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Prior to the pricing mania that exists today, the last big party for fluoropolymers occurred in the late 1990s when demand was growing and pricing was firm in the years leading up to Y2K. However, in the first decade of new millennium, ...
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Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that the plastics industry will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to enact bans on polystyrene takeout containers, ...
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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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PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from the ...
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China’s slowing manufacturing economy and difficult conditions in export markets in North America and Europe hammered Chinese injection press maker Chen Hsong Holdings Ltd., sending revenues for the first half of its fiscal year down ...
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The latest analysis from German group Ceresana Research shows the Eurozone debt crisis is affecting the mood of plastics companies in Western Europe, but it has only had a small impact on the worldwide plastics industry’s confidence ...
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