Charles A. Sholtis, CEO of Plastic Molding Technology received the 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Business Management Award on March 22, the night before opening day of NPE2015. The award is one of the highest honors SPE bestows on an individual, recognizing outstanding
YAZOO, the UK’s leading flavoured milk brand from FrieslandCampina, is excited to unveil its brand new bottles that are even better for the environment – and feature a great new ergonomic design. They are made of a PET plastic that includes 20% recycled material,
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
Berry Plastics Group, Inc. – a leading provider of value-added plastic consumer packaging and engineered materials – and Klöckner Pentaplast Group – a global leader in providing packaging, printing, and specialty solutions – announced that the companies recently entered into a marketing alliance to
Johns Manville (JM), a manufacturer of glass fiber products has announced it will expand its glass fiber operations plant in Etowah, Tennessee, to service the increasing needs of the engineered thermoplastics industry. JM’s operations in North America can serve customers across the growing compounding
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
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology Co., Ltd., a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has completed the development and commenced worldwide marketing of the “D-LFT System,” a kneading/injection molding machine capable of forming high-strength long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (LFT) products from glass fibers and
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
