Engel forecasts record year
Engel will generate the highest turnover in the company's history in the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2012.
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La Seda improves its results
La Seda de Barcelona, the Spanish PET resin and packaging group, has benefited from operational improvements which it started last year as part of a five-year restructuring plan.
Assocomaplast: better results for the members
During its annual assembly chaired by Giorgio Colombo - on Wednesday June 15, 2011 - As- socomaplast-Italian trade association for manufacturers of plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds amended its statute and renewed its committee for the period 2011- 2014.
Erema in the 2010/2011 fiscal year
Record orders again for Erema thanks to existing and many new customers.
KraussMaffei reports 31% growth in last financial year
KraussMaffei AG is pleased with the first six months of fiscal year 2010/2011 (October 1 to September 30).
BASF after first quarter 2011
BASF has had a powerful start to 2011. Capacity utilization rates in the company’s plants were good; in particular, demand in the chemicals business (Chemicals, Plastics, Performance Products, Functional Solutions) increased compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Sales grew by 25% to €19.4 billion.
PVC recipes still in development
AMI’s 3rd annual international conference on PVC compounding was held in Dusseldorf, Germany to debate the latest innovations in vinyl additives and recipes.
Bayer after first quarter 2011
Chemical giant Bayer says overall net profit grew 8.4% to €684m during the first quarter, with sales of plastics and polyurethanes on the up.
14 percent sales growth in German plastics industry
The German plastics processing sector rebounded in 2010 with 14 percent sales growth, reaching to 51.3 billion euros ($74.3 billion).
Self-adhesive label sector back to pre-crisis volumes in 2010
FINAT, the European association for the self-adhesive label industry reports that demand for self-adhesive label materials in Europe has continued its strong recovery in 2010.
Krones reports stable uptrend
Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, has, according to the provisional figures, finished the 2010 business year within the bandwidth of its best-case prognosis.
Italian manufacturers of printing and converting machines in 2010
With a turnover of €1,700 million in 2010, approximately €1,250 million came from overseas sales. These figures should be sufficient to explain the vital role played by exports for the Italian manufacturers of printing and converting machines.
