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China’s manufacturers mull ways to boost industry

Chan
HONG KONG (June 30, 2009) -- Stung by the collapse of their export markets, Chinese manufacturers should not look for that big volume business to return and instead ought to explore new areas such as manufacturing products targeted at niche markets, using better industrial design and looking inward at Chinese culture for inspiration. That, at least, was some of the advice coming from manufacturers and industrial designers -- like Eric Chan, a native of Guangdong province and now president of industrial design firm Ecco Design Inc. in New York -- at a Hong Kong forum on reinvigorating the sagging manufacturing industries in the Pearl River Delta.

Resin makers realizing China’s import potential

Hanck
GUANGZHOU (June 2, 2009) -- Just a few years ago, China was mainly a cheap export base, where products were made and sent elsewhere around the world. These days, the reverse is increasingly true: China’s growing domestic market is attracting more attention, particularly from global resin makers. “There is real demand in the domestic China market,” said Hong Kong-based Philippe Hanck of DuPont’s engineering polymers unit. He said DuPont has seen a tangible effect from China’s government stimulus spending in automotive, rail, mobile phones and renewable energy.

Ashland Distribution continues to grow in China
GUANGZHOU (May 26, 2009) -- After weathering a difficult first year in China, Ashland Distribution arrived at Chinaplas 2009 last week with a growing list of distribution agreements in the region. In an economic downturn, a company official said, there are some advantages to being a new arrival.



Underwriters Laboratories buys Bayer plastics testing lab
NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS (April 28, 2009) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has purchased a plastics testing lab in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, from Bayer MaterialScience AG. The deal will allow Northbrook-based Underwriters Laboratories -- an independent organization that tests more than 19,000 products, components, materials and systems each year -- to expand its services in the plastics market.

Package thermoformer Prent expands in China, Denmark


Pregont
JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN (April 21, 2009) -- Packaging thermoformer Prent Corp. is expanding its plant in Shanghai and is building a plant in Holbaek, Denmark. Both projects are scheduled to be finished within nine months. “We have outgrown our space in China,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Pregont. The expansion into Europe was driven by market conditions, he said. Medical packaging accounts for more than 50 percent of the company’s sales, followed by electronics packaging. Prent designs and manufacturers blister packs, pressure-formed trays and clamshells.

SK Capital Partners to buy Solutia's nylon business
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (April 14, 2009) -- Private equity firm SK Capital Partners LP has bought the integrated nylon business of Solutia Inc. The business being sold includes nylon resin -- sold under the Vydyne and Ascend trade names -- as well as fiber, feedstocks and compounds.

BASF Vietnam unit to focus on growth opportunities
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY (April 14, 2009) -- BASF SE has set up a subsidiary in Vietnam. BASF Vietnam Co. Ltd. will target growth industries in Vietnam, including electrical and electronics, construction, footwear, crop protection, packaging and petrochemicals. BASF has had a presence in Vietnam since 1994 with a representative office, and it has been active in the construction chemicals business since 2006.



SPI stimulus brings Nissei back to NPE

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 24, 2009) -- In light of current economic conditions, the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. (SPI) has put in place what it calls an “economic stimulus” of financial incentives designed to lower the overall cost of exhibiting at NPE2009 and to prevent exhibitors from incurring unexpected move-in and move-out costs. The offer already has succeeded in getting Japanese injection press supplier Nissei Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. to reverse its recent decision to drop out of the show.

New report looks at recycling data for rigid non-bottles
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (March 17, 2009) -- In another attempt to determine how much of all types of plastics are being recycled in the U.S., the American Chemistry Council has put together its first report that looks at the extent of rigid non-bottle recycling. The report estimates that 147,400 metric tons of post-consumer rigid plastics were recycled in 2007. However, two-thirds of that material was exported offshore, mostly to China, leaving only 55,000 metric tons for the U.S. and Canada.

Plastics Hall of Fame to induct 9 new members at NPE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (March 17, 2009) -- The Plastics Hall of Fame’s class of 2009 covers a global spectrum of leaders in materials, machinery, screws and packaging. The Hall of Fame will induct the nine new members June 22 at NPE2009 in Chicago. Check out Plastics News’ full story about the inductees and their accomplishments.

Two more plastics equipment majors pass on NPE show

Carteaux
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (March 3, 2009) -- Three high-profile plastics machinery makers have withdrawn from exhibiting at the big U.S. trade show NPE2009 since mid-February. U.S. auxiliary equipment manufacturer ACS Group on March 2 joined injection press makers Netstal-Maschinen AG and Nissei America Inc. in pulling out of the June 22 to 26 show in Chicago. Now Bill Carteaux, president and chief executive officer of the show’s organizer, the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., is traveling to Asia and Europe to meet with major exhibitors. Carteaux said that at this stage in the game the level of cancellations is on a par with NPE2006, with paid exhibit space about the same as it was for the show three years ago, and that SPI continues to book new space weekly.

China Array expands medical molding at Hubei plant
WUHAN, HUBEI (March 3, 2009) -- China Array Plastics LLC recently announced that it is adding a new molding cell to its China operation, enabling the company to expand its capabilities in molding medical and dental devices.The company also molds parts for the aerospace, electronics and food-service and dairy industries.

China’s stimulus plans could aid plastics firms
BEIJING (February 24, 2009) -- China’s cabinet this week passed industrial stimulus plans to strengthen the country’s light industry and petrochemicals sector. Both plans could benefit plastics manufacturers. The plans are part of China’s ambitious program to revive and strengthen 10 manufacturing industries. Government agencies have been working on the program since the announcement of the US$586 billion fiscal stimulus package. So far, specific industrial stimulus plans have been passed for the automotive, steel, equipment, textile, shipbuilding, electronics and information technology industries.

PET film maker Polyplex adding China unit
BANGKOK, THAILAND (February 24, 2009) -- Polyplex (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd. is setting up a trading company in China. Polyplex Group, based in Noida, India, is the world’s fourth largest maker of thin PET film. The company has film extrusion facilities in Thailand, India and Turkey.

Injection molder, mold builder Mastercraft expanding

Rawlings
PHOENIX, ARIZONA (December 23, 2008) -- Mastercraft Cos. ordered two all-electric Arburg injection molding machines to accommodate its growing medical market. In addition, it will install some newly purchased transducer technology on the presses and retrofit two others. Mastercraft sources tools through four domestic shops in the U.S. and four international shops in China. “Today, in the business of mold making and molding, you must be flexible and creative, for we are competing globally and not just across town,” said Arle Rawlings, Mastercraft’s chief executive officer and president.

Foxconn Technology Group cutting jobs in Hungary
TUCHENG CITY, TAIWAN (December 9, 2008) -- Electronic parts producer and telecommunications manufacturing services provider Foxconn Technology Group is cutting more than half its workforce in Hungary in the face of the global economic recession. The Tucheng City-based firm blamed the downturn in global demand.

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