Catherine Kavanaugh

Italy's Piovan Group building plant in China to manufacture automation equipment, serve as HQ in Asia

The beverage company is teaming up with Ocean Cleanup to install trash interceptors across 15 polluted rivers over the next 18 months.

Corsico, Italy-based PlastiBlow srl is focused on developments to use recycled or post-consumer material with extrusion blow moulding machines.

Troisdorf, Germany-based extrusion equipment manufacturer Reifenhäuser Group acquired a majority stake in Kdesign GmbH, a manufacturer of air cooling rings and measuring systems for blown film extrusion lines, located just 20 minutes away from its headquarters.

The Vinyl Institute's sustainability council recognizes U.S. manufacturers for their work to boost recycling.

Injection moulding machine builder Engel Austria GmbH is looking at back-to-back annual sales declines of 20 percent, in part because automotive manufacturing slowdowns caused by the pandemic exacerbated other problems in that market.

Rheinböllen, Germany – Hahn Automation Süd in Villingen-Schwenningen, which was formerly Invotec Deutschland GmbH, is being developed into a technology center for the healthcare sector.

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.

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.

Milan-based machinery maker Negri Bossi SpA employees and its injection moulding machines are part of two efforts to produce personal protective equipment for Italian communities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

An international pop artist will finish her latest work at Amplast booth and dedicate it to the plastics industry with a call for increased recycling and sustainability efforts.

The maker of extrusion blow molding machines is demonstrating the circular economy by processing bottles from a Braskem bioplastic and recycled material.

After another technical tweak, the Ocean Cleanup's marine sweeper is doing its intended job in the Pacific Ocean and collecting garbage from the size of large ghost nets down to microplastics as small as 1 millimeter, according to the Dutch nonprofit group.

In a launch seen globally through an internet livestream, a tugboat departed San Francisco Bay on Sept. 8 bound for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a marine litter collection system in tow, designed to rid the seas of plastic.