Machinery 
Business is looking good for Wittmann Battenfeld’s UK operation according to managing director Barry Hill, who predicts that 2012 will see the Wellingborough-based subsidiary land new business.
18 January 2012
High Wycombe-based trade former MHP Industries has expanded its activities with an investment of £130,000 in two machines from Ridat, the London-based thermoforming machinery manufacturer.
17 January 2012
Birmingham-based Mechatronic Solutions, a provider of automation systems, is celebrating after moving into purpose built premises on the Kings Norton Business Centre. The relocation follows a stream of large contract wins for integration projects.
17 January 2012
Scott Bader Europe’s composites division has invested in gelcoat and structural adhesive mixer capacity of its UK and French plants. Two new mixers have been installed and are now fully operational.
16 January 2012
Wittmann Battenfeld is building a 17,220-square-foot addition at its Kottingbrunn headquarters factory, part of a total expansion of 32,290 square feet of production and warehouse areas there.
13 January 2012
The IK Industrievereinigung trade association says plastic packaging companies have “more positive expectations” than in the last quarter of 2011, despite anticipating higher raw material prices.
11 January 2012
Phasa has enhanced the performance of its specialist plastic component joining machines with new versions employing a key servo-based motion control system in place of a pneumatic actuator, supplied by Festo.
10 January 2012
Southco Manufacturing of Worcester has installed a range of Renmar's AEC TCU100 mould temperature controllers fitted with an advanced controller package. The decision follows months of evaluation of various alternatives.
6 January 2012
Engel Moulders’ Group will stage a Packaging Day at Warwick on 11 January 2011 to present the latest trends and technologies in packaging injection moulding.
14 December 2011
German company, Wissner, has won the contest to find the oldest Arburg Allrounder injection moulding machine still in operation – an Allrounder 150 that has produced suspender clips since 1966.
13 December 2011
Röchling Engineering Plastics took over Leder Orago, a Gozzano, Italy-based firm that specialises in machining plastics, effective 1 December.
9 December 2011
The Ohio Tax Credit Authority has awarded Milacron a state tax credit for the plastics machinery maker’s recent $1.5m capital equipment investment expansion at its machining plant in Mount Orab, Ohio.
9 December 2011
Japanese blow moulding machine supplier Nissei ASB Machine sees India as an increasingly key part of its future, so it is boosting investment at its Mumbai factory and studying using that facility to expand into new businesses such as manufacturing components for other machinery companies, including those in the plastic industry.
8 December 2011
The German Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association, the VDMA, has raised it sales forecast for German plastics and rubber machinery sales.
5 December 2011
KraussMaffei has announced expansions in China and Slovakia. The Munich-based firm said it will double production capacity at each location and expand performance capabilities at plants in Haiyan, China, and Martin, Slovakia.
5 December 2011
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