French investment firm Wendel has acquired the US-based plastics packaging company, CSP Technologies, for $360m. The Wendel Group has invested $198m for a 98% ownership in CSP, which is based in Auburn, Alabama. CSP, which has ...
Sacmi Group is planning to showcase its new high-productivity energy-saving continuous compression moulding (CCM) series at Plastindia 2015, a major South-East Asian event for the plastic materials processing industry. Sacmi is a ...
Tags: plastic materials, Packaging
With the cold comes a seasonal problem for folks with iPhones and other touchscreen smartphones. That's right? Capacitive touchscreens can't detect when someone presses on them with a glove. Actually, here are some quite convenient ways: ...
Tags: Smartphone, iPhones
IRL has launched a new edition of its regional title A Profile of the Eastern European Paint Industry. This fully updated report provides market data for 2013 and forecasts for 2018, and gives an overview of the paint industry trends across ...
A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will feature a new generation of coatings for the protection of monobloc aerosol cans and aluminum and plastic tubes during the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum in Paris, ...
INDEVCO‘s subsidiary INDEVCO Plastics has forayed into Texas, US, with its first manufacturing plant in Longview to produce petrochemical packaging products. The investment is part of INDEVCO's strategy to meet the expected surge in ...
Tags: packaging products, Agriculture
Guerrilla RF Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA, which provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to wireless infrastructure original equipment manufacturers for greater coverage area and higher data rates, has introduced its latest ...
Tags: Small Cells, Antenna Systems, Electrical
A Harvard University spinoff has unveiled a 3D printer that can print out devices with integrated electronic circuits. The Voxel8 3D printer uses two materials: PLA plastic for the body and enclosure of the device, as well as a highly ...
Tags: 3D printer, cloud-based software, Electrical
BASF showcases chemistry’s contribution at the BAU trade fair from January 19-25 in Munich. In hall A6 booth 303 the company presents numerous solutions including products to raise the energy efficiency of buildings. Other exhibits ...
Tags: flooring solutions, grouts, Construction
MAAS Profile/BEMO Systems GmbH company group has teamed up with BASF to develop the first bracket for ventilated façades made of the thermoplastic Ultramid to be awarded a DIBt (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik) national ...
Atlas Converting North America is set to introduce its Atlas CW Series and Titan SR9 Series slitter rewinder technology for film & flexible materials at ICE USA 2015, which is scheduled to be held in Orlando, Florida, from 10 to 12 ...
Tags: Atlas CW Series, slitter rewinder technology, Agriculture
During today's Plastics in Automotive Conference in Detroit,Sandy Munro, CEO of Munro & Associates, discussed – for the first time publicly – his consulting firm's findings from its extensive deep-dive teardown, costing and ...
The operator of McDonald's in Japan and Cargill Inc has not identified any connection between a Cargill-owned plant in Thailand and a strip of plastic traced in a chicken nugget this month that triggered uproar over product safety at the ...
Tags: chicken nugget, plastic
Researchers at the University of the Basque Country in Spain are in the process of developing a new packaging technology using recycled crustacean shells that will help extend the shelf-life of fresh vegetables. According to the ...