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ENGEL UK will provide free service support to customers serving the medical parts market, said managing director Nigel Baker.
Recycling multi-layer film, even production waste, has long posed a challenge. Such films require special treatment and the resulting residues remain an issue.
Milan, Italy-based compounding and extrusion machinery manufacturer Icma San Giorgio has designed, built and installed a new compounding line for the production of biodegradable, bio-based plastic materials used mainly to manufacture shopping bags or agricultural mulch films.
Dhanny Mulyanto has been appointed as the new head of Global Supply Chain Management at Kautex Maschinenbau.
Plastics machinery manufacturer KraussMaffei Group GmbH has announced the temporary closure of its Munich, Treuchtlingen, Hanover and Schwaig plants.
The global coronavirus outbreak has plastics machinery companies scrambling to meet demand for medical equipment.
Injection press maker Engel Holding GmbH has temporarily closed all of its factories in Austria after some workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Plastics and rubber machinery manufacturing has been deemed an ‘essential’ economic activity according to a decree issued by the Italian President of the Council of Ministers (DPCM) issued on 22 March.
Last year, KraussMaffei announced it was strengthening its ‘Made in Germany’ commitment with the construction of two new production plants.
One of the latest signatories to the Circular Plastics Alliance Plastics is German extrusion equipment and machinery manufacturer Reifenhäuser.
As the requirements for the production of caps become increasingly exacting, machines manufacturers are scrambling to design machines that perform accordingly.
This year, blow moulding machine manufacturer Kautex Maschinenbau is celebrating various anniversaries. The most important, however, is its founding, 85 years ago in Bonn, Germany by plastics pioneer Reinhold Hagen.
Plastics machinery producer Engel Austria has a longstanding market presence in Japan. The company is now underpinning that position with the founding of a new sales and service subsidiary in Tokyo.
Interview with Jürgen Priesters, SVP, Circular Economy at Tomra, on polystyrene’s recyclability from a sorting perspective.