Machinery
Machinery
Plastics and rubber machinery exports from Taiwan are on the rise.
The VDMA has conducted a series of ‘Way2K’ interviews industry interviews in the lead-up to the K 2022 trade fair. Here, Dr. Michael Ruf, CEO of KraussMaffei Group GmbH, calls sustainability an ‘imperative’, declaring: "Our industry is facing the task of the century”.
Rustam Aliyev has been named the new Director Business Development Automotive & Electronics at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, effective from 1 May 2022.
Work on KraussMaffei’s new plant in Laatzen has been completed, the company has announced.
The Wittmann Group has upped its original stake in Ice Flex, an Italian supplier of MES solutions with which the Group has collaborated for the past four years.
In this Way2K interview conducted by the VDMA in the lead-up to K 2022, Joachim Oberbauer, Sales Manager Film Extrusion at Hosokawa Alpine AG discusses how demand for recycled content is growing around the world: "The use of recycled material is increasingly requested by customers worldwide.”
In this Way2K interview conducted by the VDMA in the lead-up to K 2022, Korbinian Kiesl, President of BILLION SAS, points out the need for the right equipment for processing plastic recyclates. It’s no longer an option for today’s machines: it’s a standard.
If the research project is successful, the company plans to sell pellets recovered from fishing nets to processors looking for a source of recycled material.
Consolidated sales rose 27 percent in 2021, showing a short-term V-shaped decline since 2019, along with a rapid recovery.
While the German machinery maker said it will have something to "add" at K 2022 in October, it officially will have an unveiling on the first day of the show, Oct. 19.
K 2022 officials are excited about being able to hold the world's first international plastics trade show since 2019, but are tempering their optimism because of concerns about the economy.
While the figures for the global production of plastics and rubber machinery reached a new high in 2021, in Europe, the sector once again was found to have to some extent underperformed.
In this latest Way2K interview conducted by the VDMA in the lead-up to K 2022, Dr. Christoph Schumacher, Director Marketing at Arburg GmbH + Co KG offers his insights into the role of plastics and sustainability.
LK Machinery, a China-based manufacturer of high-performance injection moulding machines is expanding into the German market.