Welcome to E-News Update from Plastics & Rubber Asia

February 2011

LEAD FEATURE

Unravelling the rubber recycling tread

COMPANY NEWS

US companies doing better

Clariant to take over Süd-Chemie

KPPC ships heavy aromatics to Asia

Borouge awards contract for XLPE unit

Sabic ships first acetone load to India

MATERIALS NEWS

Fly ash to hit the roof

PET bottle comes on board

High heat resistant PEEK label

All-plastic wheelchair is wheeled out

TPU for high heat applications

Funding to develop carbon fibres

Pilot plant for carbon dioxide-based PUs

MACHINERY NEWS

German machinery sales pick up

Kreyenborg clinches Korean deal

Brückner buys PackSys Global

Icma extruder for lab line

EXHIBITION NEWS

MPlas in a right setting

RUBBER JOURNAL ASIA

Comar to settle into industrial site

More tyre bladders in South America

Competitive rubber material

Thailand on new rubber planting drive

New silicones for medical devices

INJECTION MOULDING ASIA

Sumitomo expands machine range

Hot gas welding integrated in injection moulding process

Mould maker expands portfolio with new company

New hybrid model ramps up vertical moulding

Brückner buys PackSys Global

erman extrusion machinery specialist Brückner Group has acquired all the shares of Swiss packaging equipment supplier PackSys Global.

A 30-year company, PackSys designs and builds full lines for aluminium, plastic and laminate tubes, metal and plastic closures and monobloc aerosol cans as well as dry offset printing systems that can be integrated into production lines for tubes, metal caps and cans.

With a primary R&D centre in Switzerland, manufacturing and assembly bases in Switzerland and Thailand as well as a software development centre in India, the company has around 300 employees in these countries. In the fiscal year ending March 2011, it will have consolidated sales of CHF70 million.