Once again, a global US group is moving into the European plastics automotive supplier business. The French plastics processing group Plastic Omnium (HQ: Rue du Parc 1, F-92593 Levallois) is selling ...

Renewed demand from Europe, continued steady progress in the US and a 40% surge in exports to Asia, along with internal restructuring measures, helped French chemicals and plastics producer Elf ...

Millennium Plastics Corp. (6265 Stevenson Way, Las Vegas, Nevada 89120 / USA), a US company founded in 1999, has acquired Solplax Ltd. (Carrigeendaniel, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland) in its entirety.

With a share of 36% of the western European market for flexible packaging film, oriented polypropylene (OPP) is the biggest class of materials in this segment, followed by polyethylene and paper.

The extrusion business of Reifenhäuser Group (Troisdorf / Germany; www.reifenhauser-group.com) has been split into two independent operating companies to better focus on the group’s product-oriented ...

“Playmobil” manufacturer geobra Brandstätter (Zirndorf / Germany; www.playmobil.de) is expanding its toy figure production in Malta. The plant is to be expanded in 2019 by another production hall of ...

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Trexel (Woburn, Massachusetts / USA; www.trexel.com) has introduced its Series III “MuCell” dosing system, designed for small injection moulding machines using screw sizes of 40 mm or less. Engel ...

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Johnson Controls Plastics PET Packaging (Ringlaan 5, B-2960 Brecht) has started up a new plant in Spain to produce PET preforms. The plant is operated by Johnson Controls Plastics (Camino del Sabinar ...

Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau GmbH (PO Box 610360, D-30603 Hannover), a company known for the building of extruders, has changed its name, quite simply, to Berstorff GmbH. According to Managing ...