Category Menu Machinery News Bosch offers compact machine for filling and closing of ampoules April 15, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Bosch Packaging Technology will present a compact machine, ARF 10×0, for the pharmaceutically safe filling and closing of opened and closed ampoules at the Interpack 2011. As introduced, the ARF 10×0 for the filling and closing of opened ampoules, consists of two gassing stations (pre-filling and post-filling gassing), a two position filling station with servo […] Read more »
Market News Oil hovers near $107 after US gasoline supply drop April 14, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Oil prices hovered above $107 a barrel Thursday in Asia as a large drop in U.S. gasoline supplies suggested the two-month crude rally hasn’t yet undermined consumer demand. Benchmark crude for May delivery was up 15 cents at $107.26 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The […] Read more »
Market News Oil Rises for Second Day After U.S. Gasoline Stocks Drop Most in 12 Years April 14, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Oil rose for a second day in New York after a U.S. government report showed gasoline supplies plunged the most in 12 years, increasing speculation demand is rising in the world’s biggest crude-consuming nation. Futures advanced as much as 0.4 percent after the Energy Department said yesterday that stockpiles fell 7 million barrels last week […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Ontario, Canada Helping Horizon Plastics Create up to 350 Jobs April 14, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Ontario is helping Horizon Plastics International Inc. of Cobourg produce more advanced plastic products, which could create up to 350 new jobs. Horizon Plastics develops and manufactures custom plastic products for the industrial, environmental and consumer sectors around the world. The government is helping the company commercialize new technology for producing plastic that uses half […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Wittmann Battenfeld's MicroPower 15 draw attention in MEDTEC 2011 April 14, 2011 by plasticsinfomart MEDTEC Europe 2011 was successfully held from March 22-24 in Stuttgart, Germany, during which Wittmann Battenfeld, a manufacturer of injection molding machines for the plastics industry based in Austria, grabbed visitors’ attention by showcasing a medical technology application on a MicroPower 15. The exhibit, in addition to a rotary disk and a W8VS2WITTMAN robot for […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Wittmann Battenfeld’s MicroPower 15 draw attention in MEDTEC 2011 April 14, 2011 by plasticsinfomart MEDTEC Europe 2011 was successfully held from March 22-24 in Stuttgart, Germany, during which Wittmann Battenfeld, a manufacturer of injection molding machines for the plastics industry based in Austria, grabbed visitors’ attention by showcasing a medical technology application on a MicroPower 15. The exhibit, in addition to a rotary disk and a W8VS2WITTMAN robot for […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News KraussMaffei Berstorff delivers high-performance extrusion line to China April 12, 2011 by plasticsinfomart A Chinese film manufacturer has recently ordered a unique high-performance machine combination composed of a co-rotating twin-screw extruder and a flexible PlanetCalander smoothing unit from KraussMaffei Berstorff of Hannover, Germany, for the production of high-quality low-shrinkage EVA film used in solar plants. In the production of EVA film for solar modules, the film used to […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Starlinger to focus on woven PP-made shopping bags at Interpack 2011 April 11, 2011 by plasticsinfomart At the Interpack 2011, taking place from May 12-18 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Starlinger is going to put the main focus on shopping bags made of woven polypropylene. According to Starlinger, CB*STAR, the world’s first fully automatically produced woven PP carrier bag, is designed to eliminate conventional use-and-toss bags, thus helping to save money and natural […] Read more »