Sales of Plastics Materials 2011 Japan Source: THE JAPAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY FEDERATION
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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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Mexico’s plastics industry association has revised upward its 2011 growth estimate for the sector. In early October it was talking about a possible growth of 6 percent. Now it says 9 percent is likely, not with standing a deceleration ...
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The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. believes that NPE 2012 can avoid a repeat of the last show in 2009, when several big Japanese machinery firms threatened to pull out of the event during the worst of the global financial crisis, my ...
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Japan Production of Plastics Products in 2011 Source: THE JAPAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY FEDERATION
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Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at last night’s glittering U.K.'s Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane. The ceremony, the 11th annual event to be run ...
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Spain’s Tuboplast CTL Group plans to invest $58.3m (€41.6m) to build a plastic tube plant in North Carolina, the US. The site will be the packaging supplier’s North American headquarters. The 42-year-old company currently ...
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Thailand is opening its own institute supported by both the public and private sectors to develop the local plastics industry into a major force in Asean. The institute starts operating today with full-time staff, headed by Kriengsak ...
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Exports of Thailand-made plastic products are expected to hit US$3 billion this year, according to a report on August, well exceeding the amount of US$2.3 billion last year. The economic value of the plastics industry as a whole will be ...
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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, ...
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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The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc has launched an unprecedented marketing campaign in Latin America for NPE 2012, the show’s 27th edition. It's “a more ambitious [marketing] program than for any previous NPE, ” Bob ...
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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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Use of commercial purging compounds (CPCs) has become an integral and even more vital part of thermoplastic processing. CPCs have proven to be invaluable tools for addressing market factors such as heavier reliance on just-in-time ...
The MFI test is used widely among the various segments of the plastics industry. The difficulty is that any two labs can easily come up with different results, making it difficult to determine whether a material meets a desired MFI spec. ...
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