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SPI touts Fla. NPE location to Latin America

MEXICO CITY (March 18, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc believes moving NPE to Orlando, Fla., from Chicago in 2012 and 2015 will help boost business with Latin America. March 18, 2010

Brückner credits China for order growth

SIEGSDORF, GERMANY (March 17, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- For Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, 2009 was a good year for its film stretching machines, thanks to business in China, which fueled a 50 percent increase in orders, compared with 2008, the company said. March 17, 2010

Okla.-based reel-handling equipment firms merge

OKLAHOMA CITY (March 17, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- Two makers of reel-handling equipment have merged -- Reel-O-Matic Inc. and Tulsa Power Inc. Both companies make equipment for processing and distributing flexible products such as wire and cable, pipe, hose, tubing and products for telecommunications, utilities, mining, shipbuilding, drilling and oilfield contractors and the defense industry. March 17, 2010

Hesitant recovery for European plastics

FRANKFURT, GERMANY (March 16, 5:40 a.m. ET) -- Producers of plastic materials, machinery and products saw slight growth during the last four months of the year, despite overall losses in 2009, PlasticsEurope Deutschland said in a March 10 briefing in Frankfurt. March 16, 2010

Davis-Standard forms alliance with Italy's NO.EL

PAWCATUCK, CONN. (Feb. 16, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- Davis-Standard LLC and NO.EL Automazione Industriale, the Italian maker of coreless winders for stretch film, have signed an exclusive agreement to jointly supply inline coreless stretch film systems, up to 120 inches wide, to the converting industry. March 16, 2010

Parkinson invests in energy savings

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (March 16, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- Plastic web processing maker Parkinson Technologies Inc. is making news for technology and making its headquarters “greener.” March 16, 2010

Machinery rep Saigh winning new clients

LAKE ZURICH, ILL. (March 16, 12:01 a.m. ET) -- Saigh Solutions LLC, a 4-year-old machinery manufacturers’ representative, has grown each year by winning new clients, diversifying its line card and keeping overhead low, according to President Daniel Saigh. March 16, 2010

German machinery firms report sales growth

FRANKFURT, GERMANY (March 11, 1:30 p.m. ET) -- Industry association VDMA reports orders for German-made plastics and rubber machinery returned to growth in the final quarter of last year. It is now predicting “a markedly positive” 2010. Order intake grew by 35 percent in the fourth quarter — an upbeat end to a rough year for German manufacturers of plastics and rubber machinery. March 11, 2010

Asia alliance helps Thermoforming Systems tap global sales

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (March 11, 1 p.m. ET) -- American plastic equipment maker Thermoforming Systems LLC is crediting an Asian manufacturing partnership with letting it tap into growth in emerging markets like Brazil and India. March 11, 2010

Taiwan firm develops micromolding machines

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (March 11, 1 p.m. ET) -- A Taiwanese firm has developed its own version of micromolding injection machines and hopes to position them as a lower-cost alternative to German and Japanese machines that dominate that higher-end market. March 11, 2010

Machinery maker Macro expands to meet growing sales

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO (March 9, 4:55 p.m. ET) -- Recovering film and sheet markets have spurred Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. to expand its floor space by 40 percent. The equipment supplier has seen sales grow in the past three months, and now Macro is at the same sales level that set a record in 2008. March 9, 2010

Shini expanding factories in China and India

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (March 8, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Taiwanese auxiliary equipment maker Shini Plastics Technologies Inc. is finishing a US$18.7 million expansion of its factories in China and India, as it seeks to reverse the hit it suffered in the financial crisis and tap into growth in some emerging economies. March 8, 2010

India's Rajoo targeting Latin America and Eastern Europe

NEW DELHI, INDIA (March 8, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- Rajoo Engineers Ltd. has set out a double-barrel export strategy for this year, focusing on Latin America and the former Eastern Bloc countries in Europe, offering competitively priced machines for major upgrades and new start-ups. March 8, 2010

India's processors upgrade to compete globally

MUMBAI, INDIA (March 8, 3:20 p.m. ET) -- India’s small and medium-size plastics producers are upgrading to be globally competitive in the next two to three years and keep in step with the industry majors in the international league, according to Ashok Goel, president of the PlastIndia 2012. March 8, 2010

Italian equipment maker CMG opens US demonstration center

CRANSTON, R.I. (March 5, 10:50 a.m. ET) -- Highlighting its granulators and single-shaft shredders, CMG SpA of Bologna, Italy, recently opened a new distribution and technical demonstration center in Rhode Island to serve its North American customers. March 5, 2010

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