Current News Articles - page 44
Daily updated information and news from the plastics industry.
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The MOL Group released third quarter results
- 21.11.2017
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Business economics
MOL Group announced its financial results for Q3 2017. With HUF 150bn (USD 576mn) delivered in the quarter, clean CCS EBITDA for the first nine months of the year is 12% up from last year and stands at HUF 520.8bn (USD 1.87bn). As CAPEX spending stood at USD 605mn after nine months, the company has...
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The Fakuma 2017 was a great success for ENGEL - inject 4.0 has arrived in practice
The Fakuma 2017 was a great success for ENGEL. The good investment climate continues, many orders for injection moulding machines, robots and integrated system solutions were closed at the fair, with others being announced. Almost all of the new projects have one thing in common: They include at...
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LANXESS: New thermostabilization system for Durethan-brand polyamides
- 15.11.2017
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Additives for plastics
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed a new heat stabilization system called XTS2 (Xtreme Temperature Stabilization) for polyamide 66 variants of...
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MakerBot Labs - Become a creative developer!
- 14.11.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- 3D technology
MakerBot Labs is an experimental platform for engineers and developers who create, customize and collaborate on MakerBot's 3D printing...
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ENGEL getting ready for continued growth
At the Fakuma trade fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany, ENGEL AUSTRIA is presenting itself in a good mood. The injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solution provider based in Schwertberg, Austria, continues to be on course in the current financial year. Production capacities and the...
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Industry 4.0 survey in SR
- 09.11.2017
- Services
- Industry 4.0
The Expert Forum, which has been conducting a long-term dialogue with Slovak companies on new technological trends, has conducted a survey on the level of application of the Industry 4.0 concept in Slovak industrial enterprises. The findings have revealed that Slovak companies understand the...
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Exhibitors news at the Fakuma fair with photogallery
- 08.11.2017
- Services
- Photo reportage
- Exhibitions
The annual Fair Fakuma, which took place from 17 to 21 October 2017 in Friedrichshafen, represented 1889 exhibitors from 38 countries. In the second part of the paper, we will introduce news from leading manufacturers of injection molding machines and raw materials in the plastics...
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1st Central European Plastics Meeting in Siófok, Hungary - photo report
- 07.11.2017
- Services
- Events
- Photo reportage
The two-day meeting took place on 14 and 15 September 2017 at Balaton. The special guest of the 1st Central European Plastics Meeting was Russia. 80 companies from Hungary and Central-Europe delegated their representatives to the meeting in Siófok, there were some 600 negotiations at the B2B...
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Hot runner system from HRSflow for Class A vehicle windows made of polycarbonate
For the two-component injection molding of the rear-quarter windows of polycarbonate (PC) for the Buick GL8 and GL8 Avenir MPVs (multi-purpose vehicles), Chinese Tier 1 supplier Shentong uses two hot runner systems from...
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Arburg at the Fakuma 2017: Busy stand, great atmosphere and excellent business
For those looking for information on industry trends, innovations and the latest topics at the Fakuma, a visit to Arburg was a must. Highlights were the two large hybrid machines, the Allrounder 1120 H and Allrounder 920 H, both with a new design and featuring the new visionary Gestica control...
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Fakuma Anniversary with Top Marks in All Categories
- 02.11.2017
- Services
- Photo reportage
- Exhibitions
More exhibitors, more exhibition floor space, more expert visitors – all involved parties were highly satisfied: the autumn industry meet held in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance where Germany, Austria and Switzerland meet vibrantly continued to ride its wave of success at the 25th Fakuma...
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CUMSA DOUBLE RACK - revolutionary solution for molds offers CECHO - BOHUMIL CEMPÍREK s. r. o.
- 31.10.2017
- Plastics Moulds
- Standardized parts
The new Cumsa Double Rack mechanism also proves its quality on the Czech market. This alternative to conventional sloping ejectors can greatly facilitate work in tool shops, while reducing and simplifying molds quickly. As a result, moulds are available in shorter terms and at a lower price. In...
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Synventive Announces the New Synflow® Technology
- 30.10.2017
- Plastics Moulds
- Hot runners
Molders can now slow the opening of the pin for a set distance and hold at that position until closing, or alternate different moves within a...
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Haitian International Holdings Ltd. published preliminary results for the first 6 months of 2017
- 27.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Injection molding machines
The corporate group achieved impressive sales of approximately € 650.2 million for the first 6 months of...
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MOL already has all the licenses for a strategic investment in the Polyol project
- 25.10.2017
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Business economics
Following the conclusion of contracts with Evonik and ThyssenKrupp for the production of propylene oxide in July 2017, the MOL Group has reached a new milestone in strategic...
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GF Machining Solutions - when ergonomics meet efficiency
- 23.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Peripherals
With a wide range of new features and an intuitive, ergonomic 19 "touch screen interface, the AC CUT HMI controls the user's efficiency one step...
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Photo gallery of MSV Brno 2017 - more experts at the filled exhibition center
- 19.10.2017
- Services
- MSV Brno
- Exhibitions
1631 exhibitors from 32 countries and over eighty thousand visitors. This is the balance of the 59th International Engineering Fair, held at the Brno Exhibition Center from 9th to 13th October. The year 2017 confirmed MSV's position as the most important engineering fair in Central Europe, and in a...
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ColorSave - keep the costs of additional materials under control
- 17.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Dosing equipment
- Peripherals
ColorSave 1000 is the latest generation of masterbatche gravimetric dosing for press mills. It is the patented system of the Israeli company LIAD, which has an internal weighing hopper that provides high resistance to mechanical shocks and...
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Arburg: 63 new trainees - more than ever before
- 16.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Industry 4.0
For more than 65 years, Arburg has been helping young people to launch their careers. With a total of 63 new trainees and students of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), who started on 4 September, this year marks an unprecedented number. Speaking on behalf of the Partners,...
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Radiation crosslinking - an innovative way to improve the tribological properties of plastic products
- 11.10.2017
- Plastics Processing
- Radiation technologies
The requirements for plastic parts, especially their tribological properties, are constantly increasing. This applies in particular to plastics used in machinery and other equipment and exposed to high loads. At the same time, the topic of replacing metals in light constructions is becoming...
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Pavel Polomský from Piovan: We are specialists in system solutions
- 10.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Peripherals
- Interview
Piovan has been operating in the plastic sector for 50 years. In the last ten years, the company has become a multinational organization with manufacturing facilities in Italy, Brazil, China and the USA, with its own 21 branches, with sales offices in more than 70 countries and with 950...
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GRAFE presents at the FAKUMA: Technical Plastics
Customers - and premium quality customized technical plastics – are what the GRAFE Group stands for. For more than 25 years, the plastics specialist GRAFE has been manufacturing products for the domestic and international markets. The company will be presenting its product portfolio, including...
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Slovnaft brings to the motorists a new portfolio of fuels with improved properties
- 08.10.2017
- Suppliers of raw materials
Slovnaft introduces a new portfolio of high-quality fuels into its network of petrol stations, which clean the engine and protect it from...
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Report from the 7th Seminar on the Trends in the Plastics Industry
- 07.10.2017
- Services
- Events
- Photo reportage
The seminar was organized by the Slovak Plastic Cluster in cooperation with the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It was held at the International Hotel at the end of September in the beautiful scenery of Ve¾ká Lomnica. It was focused on material and technology innovation in the plastics...
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Polykemi AB: Compounds from three different worlds – Technical plastics – High-performance plastics – Recyclates
At its exhibition stand this year, the global manufacturer of technical thermoplastic compounds, Polykemi AB, based in Ystad, Sweden, is focusing on blends, high-performance plastics PPA GF and high-tech polypropylene for lightweight construction as well as highlighting increasingly important...
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FAKUMA 2017: VELOX presents the largest, high-performance raw materials and solutions
VELOX GmbH, a leading pan-European distributor of raw material specialities for the plastics industry, will be presenting an innovative product range at FAKUMA (booth 5001 in Hall B5), which will be held in Friedrichshafen from 17 to 21 October. In addition to its partner products, VELOX is also...
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Moisture Meter by Moretto: the 4.0 drying revolution
- 04.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Quality control
Moisture Meter, in-line resin moisture analyzer, verifies the residual granule moisture content in few seconds and allows to certify the polymer quality before...
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LANXESS at Fakuma: Focus on new forms of mobility
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS will primarily focus on the sustainable in-vehicle applications of its thermoplastics during its appearance at the Fakuma trade...
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Fakuma 2017: ENGEL e-mac series expanded on the upper end
- 02.10.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Injection molding machines
Fast, precise, energy efficient and available at an attractive price. With this range of characteristics, ENGEL AUSTRIA’s all-electric injection moulding machines from the e-mac series have become very well established, especially in the teletronics and technical moulding industries. For Fakuma...
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Successful duo BOY at MSV 2017 fair in Brno
- 29.09.2017
- Machinery & Equipment
- Injection molding machines
At the International Engineering Fair in Brno, Czech republic (October 9 - 13, 2017), BOY will present two injection molding machines. The compact BOY XS with a clamping force of 100 kN produces small plastic parts for the electronic industry and BOY 25 E VV (clamping force 250 kN) is the head of...
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