Machinery 
Organisers of the Plast exhibition in Milan, Italy in May say more than 1,100 exhibitors from 40 countries have signed up for the event. This was the total up to 31 December 2011, and the final number is likely to be more as applications for stands have continued to be submitted in recent weeks. European Plastics News will publish an Italian plastics supplement to co-incide with the event.
2 February 2012
Machinery maker Battenfeld-Cincinnati has launched the new uniEX single-screw extruder, specifically for pipe and profile manufacturers
25 January 2012
Sweden’s automotive component moulding sector has consolidated with the merger of two national plastic part processors, Anderstorp-based AQ Holmbergs and Vadstena Industriplast of Vadstena
25 January 2012
Global demand for plastics processing machinery is projected to rise 6% annually through 2015, according to a new market study
18 January 2012
Machinery maker Battenfeld-Cincinnati says it has received an order for a multi-layer thermoforming sheet extrusion line from an unnamed Asian packaging manufacturer
18 January 2012
Germany-based extrusion machinery producer Coperion has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology, which supplies pelletising systems to the plastics processing industry
17 January 2012
US-based Maguire is set to sell its Purging Recovery System (PRS) on the European market after receiving CE certification, the company said 3 January
5 January 2012
India’s Reinhardt Roto-Machines is expanding its operations by setting up a new plant in Vadodara
14 December 2011
German company, Wissner, has won the contest to find the oldest Arburg Allrounder injection moulding machine still in operation – an Allrounder 150 that has produced suspender clips since 1966
14 December 2011
Injection moulding machinery producer KraussMaffei has doubled the production area of its KraussMaffei Automation subsidiary in Oberding-Schwaig, near Munich, Germany, from 670 to 1,720m²
12 December 2011
Röchling Engineering Plastics took over Leder Orago, a Gozzano, Italy-based firm that specializes in machining plastics, effective 1 December
9 December 2011
Japanese blow moulding machine supplier Nissei ASB Machine sees India as an increasingly key part of its future, so it is boosting investment at its Mumbai factory and studying using that facility to expand into new businesses such as manufacturing components for other machinery companies, including those in the plastic industry
8 December 2011
Messe Düsseldorf, the organiser of the K global plastics fair, has announced a theme of Mobility for the next exhibition taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 16 to 23 October 2013.
6 December 2011
The German Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association, the VDMA, has raised it sales forecast for German plastics and rubber machinery sales.
6 December 2011
Sales of injection moulding machines in the US have now risen for two years in a row following a 10-year decline, and local observers expect the upward trend to continue in 2012.
5 December 2011
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