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Koch-Technik further extends its international sales and service network

17.02.2011 - Werner Koch Maschinentechnik GmbH, supplier of peripheral devices and complete systems to the plastic processing industry throughout the world, is extending its international sales and service network. In the middle of last year, St Petersburg-based Formet PM and Formet Plastic Machinery in Nischni...

Coperion: Preventive wear diagnosis guarantees constant product quality

17.02.2011 - COBRA LG: Video and laser-guided wear analysis Coperion GmbH presented its new COBRA LG wear diagnosis system at K 2010. With this new system it is possible to obtain rapid, comprehensive and relevant information on the actual state of wear of the inner walls of the barrels of extruding and compounding...

EuPC: Ingrid Verschueren new EuPC Packaging Manager

17.02.2011 - Since January 2011 Ingrid Verschueren has been appointed the new Packaging Manager at EuPC, the Brussels based plastics converters trade association. Ms Verschueren has a legal background and has been working for EuPC as Legal Director since 2006. She took over the management of the Packaging Division...

DSM announces price increase for complete UPR resin portfolio and Neoxil® range of Sizing & Binders

17.02.2011 - DSM Composite Resins, a global leader in Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPR), is increasing the price of its complete UPR resin portfolio and Neoxil® Sizings & Binders by 150 EUR/ton with effect of March 1, 2011. For specific resin, the increase will be higher than the latter, depending on the availability...

EMS-GRIVORY: Price increases for Grilamid, Grilamid and Grilon types

15.02.2011 - Effective March 1st 2011, EMS-GRIVORY (CH) will increase their prices in Europe by between 0.30-0.40 EUR/kg depending on product family. The products concerned are Grilamid PA12, Grilamid TR, Grivory GV/HT and Grilon A, B and TS. These price increases result chiefly from raw material costs which...

LANXESS steps up commitment to biobased raw materials

15.02.2011 - LANXESS is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubber from biobased raw materials. As part of this commitment, LANXESS has increased its minority shareholding in Gevo, Inc. that focuses on renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels. USD 17 million invested in Gevo’s IPO LANXESS’...

Bayer MaterialScience is developing innovative film technologies for the wireless industry

15.02.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has developed and applied for a patent on a technology that enables the efficient production of highly integrated electronic components with complex geometries. It is based on polycarbonate films and the use of printed polymer electronics, and it is suited for the direct integration...

European Bioplastics: 6th European Bioplastics Conference in November in Berlin

14.02.2011 - 22/23 November 2011, Maritim proArte Hotel, Berlin European Bioplastics, the association of the bioplastics industry in Europe, announces the 6th European Bioplastics Conference to take place on 22/23 November 2011 at the Maritim proArte Hotel in Berlin. Numerous studies assessing the bioplastics...

Zeppelin Anlagenbau: Management Board with new CEO

14.02.2011 - The Business Unit Plant Engineering of the ZEPPELIN Group has reorganized the Management Board. Bernhard Scherer, for 6 months member of the Management Board of Zeppelin Systems, has been appointed chairman from January 1st, 2011. Scherer succeeds Peter Gerstmann who has held a double function being...

Adval Tech and Mould Technologies Holding consider close Cooperation

11.02.2011 - Adval Tech Holding Ltd and Mould Technologies Holding (MTH) are exploring the possibility of strategic cooperation in the field of injection molds. MTH is an industrial group which has been built up since 2008 around Swiss moldmaker SCHÖTTLI AG by its principal investor CGS Management. Both Adval...

Engel: Specialist Symposium in Shanghai for the laptop industry

10.02.2011 - 8.-9. March 2011, Shanghai "Think Thin" – this is the motto of the specialist symposium in Shanghai to which ENGEL is inviting decision makers from the laptop industry and their suppliers. On 8 and 9 March this year, the injection moulding machine manufacturer and automation expert will be demonstrating,...

DSM Engineering Plastics announces price increases on Arnitel and Arnite

10.02.2011 - As a result of continued escalations in the costs of key raw materials, DSM Engineering Plastics will increase prices on a global basis for its ARNITEL® and ARNITE® products. Effective 1 Feb 2011, DSM will increase prices for these products by at least 15% on a global basis. While DSM Engineering...

Reifenhäuser: Bernd Reifenhäuser appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of Reifenhäuser Maschinenfabrik

09.02.2011 - Economist Bernd Reifenhäuser has taken over the chairmanship of the Management Board of Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik as of 01.01.2011. In November 2008, Bernd Reifenhäuser took the position as Managing Director of Reifenhäuser Maschinenfabrik which was managed on a parity by him and...

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag: All-hydraulic injection moulding machine series to include new frame size

09.02.2011 - The hydraulic injection moulding machine made by Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH of Schwaig / Germany has been expanded to include a model with a clamping force of 13,000 kN. In the course of 2011, the Systec machine series will be further expanded to include clamping forces up to 20,000...

DSM appoints Steef Bouwmeester as new Managing Director of Euroresins

09.02.2011 - DSM recently announced the appointment of Steef Bouwmeester as Managing Director Euroresins with immediate effect. Steef Bouwmeester joined DSM in 2001 and has held various key roles in the Composite Resin Business. Previously he was Business Manager Product Portfolio at Euroresins. Steef Bouwmeester...

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