Thermoplastic elastomers specialist Kraiburg TPE (Waldkraiburg / Germany) has announced that its range of Thermoplast M compounds meets the new VDI 2017 guideline. Approved in July 2019 by German engineers...
US plastics recycler MBA Polymers (Richmond, California) has taken over a 16,000 m² site in Mauna, near Dresden / Germany, with effect from 19 July 2019. The site, operated by...
A German start-up has designed a way to trick your brain into thinking its drinking something grand, when its actually just tap water. The key is an aroma insert used...
Osnabruck, Germany - Global chemical company Huntsman today revealed further details of the products it will promote at K 2019 this October. Demonstrating its track record for Delivering Elastomers Innovation, Huntsman will...
German chemical company Brüggemann (Heilbronn) has announced a series of new additives for both virgin and recycled polyamide, extending its range of flow enhancers, heat stabilisers and chain modifiers. The...
Like every Wednesdays the bilingual (Italian / English) versions of macplasonline published today with several interesting topics. PIMI has picked up two titles from the issue no. 432 of macplasonline....
For several years, Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 has dominated discussions in the global petrochemicals and plastics sector. Now Europe has its own vision, which perhaps intentionally uses the same name....
Members of the new e-commerce alliance in China (Photo: Amcor) Packaging company Amcor (Hawthorn / Australia) has developed a PET bottle for pasteurised beer in...
Campaigners welcomed the fall but said the 9.6m cups ordered was too many. Nevertheless, hospitals, emergency services, councils and government organisations have all said they are trying to reduce the...
The screw, non-return valve and barrel massively influence the melt quality and repeatability of the injection moulding process as well as the lifespan and cost-effectiveness of the injection moulding machine....
For most companies until the beginning of the 1990s, resin drying carried out with adsorption driers to dehumidify plastic material was still the tool of choice. However, this procedure came...
At K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, between October 16th and 23rd, for the first time anywhere in the world, ENGEL is exhibiting its iQ weight control intelligent assistance system for...
The UK government has sought to distance itself from a report its own ministers drew up which spells out the drastic consequences of a no-deal Brexit. The document, entitled the...
Mastebratch manufacturer Silvergate Plastics (Wrexham / UK) has launched a batch-to-batch colour match service for customers using recycled polymers and claims it overcomes any variation in the base colour of...
The "Guild of Domestic Machine and Equipment Manufacturers of Iran', a newly established assembly of the Iranian workshops, factories and companies that insist being the true domestic manufacturers, has announced...
Apparently, July 2019 was not the best month for carbon fibre manufacturer SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden / Germany). The company noted a significant deviation from its expectations in the monthly analysis...
Sometimes, more is less. With the aim of further reducing cycle time, ENGEL has split the process of producing housing parts for medical devices using two-component injection moulding. The process...
The following article received today from the K press office of Messe Dusseldorf is an analysis of the situation of the European plastics industry and how K 2019 can pave...