European Plastics Converters (EuPC), a European trade association, has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use of recycled content as well as incentives and barriers to its use. With high targets ...
Austrian company Engel will showcase its inject 4.0 products and solutions for injection molders in the fields of smart machine, smart service and smart production at Plast Eurasia 2017 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from December 6 to 9. ...
Tags: Engel, injection molders
The opening keynote will be delivered by Philip Law, the new director-general of the 81 year-old body, which has more than 400 members across the plastics industry supply chain, including polymer producers and suppliers, additive ...
Multi-material food packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) decision to give an official positive opinion regarding the super-cleaning process used in its factories in Spain, ...
Tags: food packaging, Multi-material
High-end colour management and proofing software developer GMG has appointed Will Hearn as its sales executive responsible for the southern region. Hearn began working within the graphics supplies sector over 20 years ago. Innovia Films ...
China-based Formosa Polypropylene (FPC) Ningbo has collaborated with Milliken to develop a new grade of polypropylene (PP) 5200XT using Milliken's Millad NX 8000K clarifier. Produced at FPC Ningbo's facility in China, the 5200XT grade ...
Tags: Packaging Resin, Polypropylene, FPC, plastics processors
Innovation company Milliken will demonstrate innovations, which focus on the sustainability and pertain to product quality challenges faced by plastics processors and brand owners in the emerging markets of Eurasia, at Plast Eurasia 2012. ...
While a weak domestic market has hurt Malaysia's plastics processors, economic problems in Europe and Japan have actually given them an unexpected lift as companies are outsourcing more to Malaysia to reduce their own costs, a top official ...
Tags: market view, plastics
Battenfeld-Cincinnati scored big in China last year with some major orders, and the company expects to continue to grow as China demands high output and high efficiency machinery. In an interview with Plastics News at the recent Chinaplas ...
Tags: market view, pipelines
Battenfeld-Cincinnati scored big in China last year with some major orders, and the company expects to continue to grow as China demands high output and high efficiency machinery. In an interview with Plastics News at the recent Chinaplas ...
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Export orders of plastics products are increasingly shifting from China to Vietnam due to rising production costs in China, according to the Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre (the Youth). When I saw the report during Chinaplas, I decided to go ...
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New Auxiliary Equipment / TSM Control Systems is now offering plastics producers new ways to weather the economic storm and improve their profit margins. New TSM technology focuses on combining standard processing requirements; accurate ...
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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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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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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, ...
Tags: plastics processor