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2017-2018 Exhibitions
PRA June/July 2017
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The cosmetics industry is formulating zero-waste, sustainable solutions for beauty and personal care products
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The cosmetics industry is formulating zero-waste, sustainable solutions for beauty and personal care products
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Dow’s Innovative Solutions Tackle Challenges in E-commerce Packaging New - Mold-Masters doubles footprint in China
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- Plast 2018 to have higher number of foreign exhibitors
- Arburg celebrates its 25-year presence in China
- Adnoc and Borealis tie-up for Borouge 4 PP project in Ruwais
- Adnoc heading for IPO for distribution unit; releases 2030 growth strategy
- Zhenpeng introduces industry’s first all-plastic stop valve for pressurised hot water systems
- Shaanxi Coal Yulin opts for LyondellBasell’s process for PP plant
- New offices: Movacolor to set up new energy-efficient facility; TactoTek eases into new facility for IMSE
- Philippine plastics industry to benefit from technologies, offers at T-Plas
- Arkema to invest in biosourced PA11 chain in Asia; investment of EUR300 mn
- Dow’s "Soft comfort" Breakthrough in the Nonwovens Market
- US activist shareholders blast Huntsman Clariant merger
- PolyOne acquires colourant producer Mesa, divests subsidiary DSS
- Solvay to sell its stake in Brazilian PVC compounder to jv partners
- Lanxess’s Rhein Chemie combines rubber and colourant specialties business lines
- Klöckner Pentaplast acquires Linpac Group
- Covestro kicks off expanded film production at new Dormagen facility
- Bankruptcy, acquisition deal for Takata’s airbag recalls and lawsuit woes
- Yokogawa signs collaborative deal with SEG
- Boy to showcase two-component-goggles; largest injection moulding machine at Taiwan's Plascom
- BASF and Haier team up for innovation lab in China
- KraussMaffei and Roctool sign global collaboration agreement for inductive mould heating and injection moulding
- Pan Asia to break ground in Saudi for petrochem plant
- Saudi Arabia aims to transform economy with crude-to-oil projects
- Carbios and TechnipFMC to scale up development of PET enzymatic recycling process
- battenfeld-cincinnati USA expands sales and service team
- Plastics machinery shipments slip 7.5% in 2017 Q1
- Sonoco to buy Clear Lam Packaging
- Japanese plastic fuel filler pipe maker to up production capacity, invests US$1.9 mn
- VDMA reports uptrend in plastics and rubber machinery sales; expects 3% rise in 2018
- Rosneft clears final hurdle for US$13 bn acquisition of Essar Oil
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- Qatar Petroleum completes merger of vinyl unit with Qapco
- Teijin claims PC pillar-less window for electric vehicle
- BIC announces new SIRA roadmap to develop Europe’s bioeconomy
- DuPont and TactoTek Collaborate to Support Growing In-Mold Electronics Market
- NTU Singapore and Thailand’s PTTGC in tie-up for 3D printing materials for auto sector
- China still a focus market for manufacturers June/July digital issue
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Company News
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Dow DuPont merger crosses the last hurdle; on track to Aug closing
DuPont and Dow Chemical Company have reached a proposed agreement with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that will permit the companies to proceed with their proposed merger of equals. In connection with the proposed agreement and consistent with commitments already...
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Materials News
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Celanese/Sabic jv to start up Saudi POM operations in third quarter
Ibn Sina, a joint venture between US speciality materials firm Celanese Corporation and Saudi-headquartered materials firm Sabic, is expected to open in the third quarter of 2017. The joint venture involves the construction of a 50,000-tonne polyacetal (POM) manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City....
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Machinery News
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Reifenhäuser shows five-layer line processing biopolymers
At a recent open house at its facility in Troisdorf, Germany, extrusion machinery maker Reifenhäuser Blown Film highlighted the EVO line, which was introduced at K2016. A EVO five-layer line was producing different biofilms using raw materials from various manufacturers. For demonstrating the EVO Ultra Stretch...
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SUPPLEMENTS
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No barriers to growth for Malaysian glove makers
Evolving from silicon, one of the earth’s most common elements, silicones are recognised for their versatile medical application potentials, hence achieving onward market demand, says Angelica Buan in this article. Since the early days of silicone in the 1940s, pioneers in exploiting the potentials of the material included US firms Dow Corning and General Electric. Since then, silicones in medical manufacturing have come a long way, with technologies able to enhance silicones biocompatibility...
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China’s manufacturing market becomes sophisticated
The injection moulding machine market is seeing brisk business, with machine makers at the recently concluded Chinaplas show in Guangzhou boasting growth in their respective businesses. Meanwhile, the Chinese market has come of age, and is now upping its stakes in technical solutions, thus, requiring higher technology, as seen with the exhibits on display. Processors sourcing equipment domestically. With technology improvements and more foreign machinery makers setting up in China...
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SUPPLEMENTS
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Medical devices market in good shape with silicones
Evolving from silicon, one of the earth’s most common elements, silicones are recognised for their versatile medical application potentials, hence achieving onward market demand, says Angelica Buan in this article. Since the early days of silicone in the 1940s, pioneers in exploiting the potentials of the material included US firms Dow Corning and General Electric. Since then, silicones in medical manufacturing have come a long way, with technologies able to enhance silicones biocompatibility...
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China’s manufacturing market becomes sophisticated
The injection moulding machine market is seeing brisk business, with machine makers at the recently concluded Chinaplas show in Guangzhou boasting growth in their respective businesses. Meanwhile, the Chinese market has come of age, and is now upping its stakes in technical solutions, thus, requiring higher technology, as seen with the exhibits on display. Processors sourcing equipment domestically. With technology improvements and more foreign machinery makers setting up in China...
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