Industry News Archive
It’s paper versus plastic, as the expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam controversy has once again reared its ugly head—and all in the name of keeping plastic out of landfills. The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of six of the largest school districts in the
The annual Arburg Energy Efficiency Award has been given to ARaymond, the French family-owned company which is one of the world leaders in clip fasteners for the automotive industry. The award, which was presented on 10 March at the Arburg headquarters in Lossburg, Germany,
After a successful second developer conference in January, Google is pushing forward with development on its modular smartphone concept, Project Ara. Essentially, Project Ara is a smartphone platform that would allow users to upgrade or customize individual parts of the phone without having to
Canon Virginia Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., will demonstrate its commitment to the plastics industry by sharing a wide array of its precision mold-making products and services at this year’s NPE2015 International Plastics Showcase in Orlando, Fla., March 23-27th at
AMI Consulting, Europe’s largest consultancy dedicated to providing business research and analysis for global plastics industry, published a new report citing that the value of the European plastics injection moulding industry in 2014 was 11% higher than its pre-crisis value, although the volume of
Global economic conditions have left their impact on the European injection molding industry. According to a new report published in January by AMI Consulting, Western Europe has seen the closure of more than 27% of its injection molding sites since 2005. Although the number
Japanese injection molding machine builder Nissei Plastic Industrial is bringing six injection molding machines to NPE (at booth W1529) including its latest electric, hybrid, and vertical offerings to demonstrate it capabilities in delivering deliver technological solutions to daily challenges for “molding processes and high-value-added
Double-digit growth in orders and demand in the first quarter of 2010 for plastics processing machinery proved a pleasant balm on the sores left by the unprecedented drop in business that took place during the Great Recession of 2008-’09. The annual meeting on May
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) just concluded its annual International Builders Show (IBS) in Las Vegas, and as usual one of the big features was a tour of The New American Home (TNAH) built by a selected homebuilder. This year the TNAH
A high-rate plasticizing unit incorporating an innovative screw design produces enhanced-quality melt at rates that make possible shorter cycles in injection molding of high-speed, thin-wall packaging, it was announced today by Nordson Corporation, which will introduce the system at NPE2015 (Booth W6263). The Nordson
