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- Business/Economy, Medical
China’s TK is ready to take on global medical market (06-23-2009)
GUANGZHOU (June 23, 2009) -- Those wondering how long it will take China to make the leap from churning out cheap, low-end goods to higher-tech stuff might want to pay attention to Guangzhou TK
Medical Instrument Co. Ltd. The company, with a heavy focus on plastic medical products, wants to become one of China’s first globally recognized medical device makers. Plastics News caught
up with Charlie Yu, who became TK’s chief executive officer in September, to talk about how the 5-year-old company hopes to transform itself, and whether China can duplicate in medical devices --
where manufacturing mistakes can hurt or kill people -- what it has done in industries like toys and consumer electronics. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Materials
Sabic IP continues to expand worldwide (06-23-2009)
CHICAGO (June 23, 2009) -- Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) isn’t letting short-term economic woes slow down its global plans. The company has contracted with warehouses in Texas and New Jersey
to import commodity resins from its plants in the Middle East. The firm’s Sabic Innovative Plastics unit also by the end of the year will open a new plant making Ultem-brand polyetherimide in
Cartagena, Spain, and next month will expand engineering resin compounding capacity by 30 percent in Nansha, China. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Building/Construction, Business/Economy
China’s plastics industry to resume double-digit growth (06-25-2009)
CHICAGO (June 25, 2009) -- China’s plastic industry should resume double-digit growth in the second half of the year, after stumbling from the global economic crisis, according to the head of
China’s largest plastics industry association. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Machinery
Haitian exec addresses issues affecting plastics industry (06-22-2009)
GUANGZHOU (June 22, 2009) -- Plastics News visited with China’s leading press manufacturer, Ningbo Haitian Plastic Machinery Group, at the recent Chinaplas trade show in Guangzhou. Haitian
Executive Vice President Helmar Franz commented on how the global downturn has impacted the industry, the company’s response to changing markets, as well as other hot issues. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Design/Innovation, Medical, Molds/Tooling
Nypro boosts medical capacity in China and France (06-22-2009)
NEW YORK (June 23, 2009) -- Nypro Inc. is expanding its medical operations in China and Europe as part of its strategy to increase the percentage of its sales from medical from 30 percent to 40
percent over the next two years. “Asia continues to be where we put a lot of our energies because our customers are manufacturing there,” Brian Payson, vice president of business development for
Nypro Healthcare, told Plastics News at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East show in New York. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Design/Innovation, Environment, Materials, Packaging
DuPont pushing for global sustainability standards (06-23-2009)
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (June 23, 2009) -- DuPont Co. is throwing its weight behind a push to have global sustainability standards. The company revealed its support for the standards as part of its
recent 2009 DuPont Packaging Awards event. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Injection Molding, Machinery
Nissei strengthening presence in South, Southeast Asia (06-22-2009)
NAGANO, JAPAN (June 22, 2009) -- Injection molding machinery maker Nissei Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. will set up offices in India and Vietnam to bolster its presence in South and Southeast Asia and
respond to an influx of Japanese companies in those countries. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Building/Construction, Business/Economy, Design/Innovation, Environment, Machinery
Qinchuan-Future Plastic mulls initial public offering (06-30-2009)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (June 30, 2009) -- Strong growth in the wood-plastic composite market is prompting joint venture Chinese wood-plastic composite equipment maker Qinchuan-Future Plastic Machinery Co.
Ltd. to consider an initial public offering, a company executive said in an interview at NPE2009. The Baoji, Shaanxi province-based company hopes to raise funds for an expansion to handle increasing
demand in both China’s domestic wood-plastic composite market and in exports, said Wayne Song, director of one of the joint venture partners in the machinery maker. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy
Borouge’s investment fuels growth impetus in China (06-22-2009)
GUANGZHOU (June 22, 2009) -- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based polyolefins supplier Borouge Pte. Ltd. is forging ahead with its investments in China and the Middle East to support fast growth in
the Chinese market, in spite of the global economic downturn and market fluctuation. “Demand in China has picked up in the last couple of months, and government stimulus packages are turning out
good results here,” Chief Executive Officer William Yau told Plastics News at Chinaplas. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Business/Economy, Design/Innovation, Environment, Injection Molding, Machinery
Arburg launches new hybrid injection machines (06-22-2009)
LOSSBURG, GERMANY (June 22, 2009) -- German injection machinery maker Arburg GmbH + Co. KG used its annual Technology Days open house event at its headquarters in Lossburg to launch its energy-saving
Hidrive hybrid machine line and to invite customers into its newly completed customer center. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
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