Machinery
Machinery
German plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers were prepared for less than lustrous results for 2019. Coming after a decade of boom years, the 6% drop in turnover reported by the VDMA trade association Plastics and Rubber Machinery seemed inevitable.
For Engel, Brett Martin, a leading, family-owned manufacturer of plastic building products headquartered in Northern Ireland is a customer of long standing.
Mann+Hummel has announced that will be shuttering production at its Ludwigsburg location.
Flexible packaging machine manufacturer Windmöller & Hölscher said it had more than 2,000 visitors from 120 countries tune into online press demonstrations, technical sessions and meetings during its first virtual expo held June 24 and 25.
Declining trade and low demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have hit the Italian rubber & plastics machinery industry, with full recovery only likely in 2022, according to trade association Amaplast.
Engel Austria GmbH says it will launch an extremely compact, high-output injection moulding machine in October that provides low unit costs even in a cleanroom environment.
Plastics machinery manufacturer Engel has expanded its operations in the Benelux with a new sales and service office with its own training centre in Belgium.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery continues to invest strongly in its German sites. The company has now completed the expansion and modernisation of its training centre and embarked on the next phase of its growth strategy by breaking ground on a new 1600 m2 warehouse, both at its site in Schwaig, Germany.
Sulzer, the leader in separation and mixing technology, has as completed the design, installation and start-up of a new production line for the BEWiSynbra Group. The company delivered the new unit to the Group’s facility in Porvoo, Finland.
A lightbulb moment led to the development of a new material. Here’s how three companies came together to make that happen while incidentally demonstrating the importance of collaboration in the value chain.
Berlin, Germany-based Novapax Kunststofftechnik Steiner has named Heinz Gaub as managing director, CTO, effective May 2020. The company’s three-headed executive board is now composed of Wolfgang Steiner, commercial director Heinrich XVI. Prinz Reuß, and CTO Heinz Gaub.
Austrian plastics machinery manufacturer Wittmann Group has announced that it will not be exhibiting at the Fakuma trade fair in Friedrichshafen this year.
While the past year was a very good one for Hellweg Maschinenbau, record sales levels meant that the business was bursting at the seams. To add the necessary metres, construction on a new production hall at its Roetgen headquarters in the Eifel region of Germany is currently underway, the granulator specialist announced.
For the Erema Group, financial year 2019/20, which ended on 31 March, was one for the books: for the first time in its history, the Group generated a consolidated total turnover of more than EUR 200 million - a more than 10% increase over 2018/19.