According to latest statistics of China Customs, in September the country recorded a trade surplus in injection molding machine (HS code 84771010), the first time since January. China exported 3, 644 units of injection molding machines at ...
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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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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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Plastic Mold Injection Molding is a fast growing process that has gained a lot of momentum in a very short span of time. There are various advantages of using plastic mould Injection Molding process. The major advantage is that it is very ...
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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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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The recent International Plastic Fair, Japan’s largest plastics show, saw a sharp drop in attendance from the last edition in 2008, with the number of visitors down 34 percent to just over 43,700. Organizers for the show, which ran ...
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Penn State Behrend engineering student Kaitlin Wolf aspires to design and develop medical plastic devices in the health-care industry. The 21-year-old senior from Buffalo will be among an inaugural class of six Behrend students scheduled 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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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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KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH has doubled its sales of new injection molding machinery in Brazil to 18 million euros ($25.9 million) this year, a senior official says. “We’ve had our best year in Brazil, ” the official, ...
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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LG Electronics Inc. And Krauss Maffei AG have agreed to work together on technological developments in plastics processing for electronics devices. The deal was signed at a ceremony in Munich where LG also ordered additional injection ...
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Supply chain disruptions from Japan’s crisis have hit the earnings of Chinese injection molder and metals processor EVA Precision Industrial Holdings Ltd., although the company said it believes that the worst is behind it. Net profit ...