Machinery 
Industry association VDMA reports orders for plastics and rubber machinery returned to growth in the final quarter of last year. It is now predicting “a markedly positive result” for 2010.
11 March 2010
Colortronic (UK) says it has supplied materials handling systems to Nampak Plastics Europe to allow inclusion of recycled HDPE into the rigid packaging company's HDPE containers
9 March 2010
UK-based M&H Plastics hopes its latest investment in a new injection blow moulding machine from Uniloy Milacron will help it expand in the market for pharma packaging
5 March 2010
A new 18-knife UG925 underwater granulating system for polypropylene has been introduced by Coperion. The system has already gone into operation with a customer in Saudi Arabia, who has achieved output rates of up to 72 tonnes an hour
4 March 2010
Injection moulding machinery maker Husky was hit by the global turndown last year, with sales for the period down by 12% on 2008.
1 March 2010
Italy’s Bandera Luigi Costruzioni Meccaniche has teamed up with the US-based Processing Technologies to supply dryerless sheet lines to the North American market, for running PET and polylactic acid
26 February 2010
Auxiliary equipment supplier Conair has expanded its range of chlorine-free EarthSmart chillers, so that air-cooled and water-cooled models now have capacity of up to 30 tonnes
26 February 2010
The plastic machinery and raw material distribution market in France fell 40% in 2009, driven by the economic crisis during the first seven months of the year, according an industry association in the country
24 February 2010
Smurfit Kappa subsidiary Vitop has ordered two of the new Vitesse machines from Ferromatik Milacron to manufacture taps for bag-in-box beverage packs
9 February 2010
Swiss-based GF AgieCharmilles has developed laser-based technology capable of reproducing a wide variety of textured and structured effects on aluminium mould tools
8 February 2010
Biaxially oriented film line supplier DMT Technology has entered bankruptcy proceedings, according to reports from Austria that quote DMT lawyers saying its credit dried up because of the financial crisis
2 February 2010
Japanese injection machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is to sell mid range multi-component Engel moulding machines to customers in Japan under a new cooperatin agreement
22 January 2010
An agreement in which Stratasys will make an HP-branded 3D printer is expected to expand the market for product designers wanting to rapidly produce plastic models from mechanical design (MCAD) files
21 January 2010
Maguire Europe claims its simple, low cost extrusion yield control system delivers considerable material savings and fast payback at two production sites in the UK
20 January 2010
Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik has created a new internal air cooling system for mono-layer and multi-layer polyolefin pipes
20 January 2010
|
