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MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO (Feb. 3, 12:10 p.m. ET) -- After a year of investigation, the Morrow County Prosecutor’s office has decided not to file charges against Christopher Filos, the former owner of the now-shuttered HPM machinery company.
February 3, 2012
NEW DELHI (Feb. 3, 12:05 p.m. ET) -- U.S. firm Extrusion Dies Industries LLC is opening a much larger facility in China this year, as part of a longer-term investment to develop stronger capabilities for Asia-focused product development and manufacturing.
February 3, 2012
FRANKLIN, MASS. (Feb. 2, 4:10 p.m. ET) -- After more than two decades of organic growth in the China market, Dynisco LLC today announced the completion of the purchase of the assets of Shanghai Hao-Ying Measurement & Control Technology Co. Ltd. Dynisco officials say the deal has the firm poised to expand an already strong position in the booming market.
February 2, 2012
BATAVIA, OHIO (Feb. 2, 2:45 p.m. ET) -- Milacron LLC is adding production of its Magna Servo injection presses to the United States.
February 2, 2012
NEW DELHI (Feb. 1, 1:15 p.m. ET) -- If emerging markets are supposed to provide an economic lift to the world economy these days, India’s plastics sector seems ready to oblige, with its leaders opening the PlastIndia trade show Feb. 1 by predicting they’ll maintain double digit growth over the next decade. Led by that growth, they said that PlastIndia has now become the third-largest plastics show in the world, trailing Germany’s K Fair and the Chinaplas exhibition.
February 1, 2012
WOOD DALE, ILL. (Jan. 31, 6:15 p.m. ET) -- Fermin G. Adames, president and founder of auxiliary equipment maker Tempco Electric Heater Corp., died Jan. 29 at the age of 67.
January 31, 2012
ORLANDO, FLA. (Jan. 27, 12:35 p.m. ET) -- Those NPE travel plans set in stone from years past are in desperate need of a refresher. Here are some tips to help out-of-town travelers prepare for the April 1-5 trade show in Orlando.
January 27, 2012
MEXICO CITY (Jan. 23, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- Mexico’s plastics industry grew 10 percent to just over $20 billion in 2011, measuring processed products, resins and equipment. According to Eduardo Martínez Hernández, president of industry association Anipac, the growth trend will continue in 2012.
January 23, 2012
GÖPPINGEN, GERMANY (Jan. 20, 2:15 p.m. ET) — Model train maker Gebr. Märklin & Cie GmbH ordered two Boy 35 E injection presses in December from Dr. Boy GmbH & Co. KG.
January 20, 2012
NEWTOWN, CONN. (Jan. 20, 12:25 p.m. ET) -- The new CEO of the Society of Plastics Engineers believes speed is important in solving many of the challenges facing the plastics industry. “I’m pretty direct and I like things to move fast,” said Willem De Vos, a plastics and SPE veteran who took the reins Jan. 19. “The plastics industry has changed a lot in the past two decades.”
January 20, 2012
FITCHBURG, MASS. (Jan. 20, 11:15 a.m. ET) -- The fact that MassPlastics 2012 is being postponed until 2013 rather than canceled has some of its longtime exhibitors optimistic about its survival.
January 20, 2012
FITCHBURG, MASS. (Jan. 19, 4 p.m. ET) -- The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce has canceled the massPlastics trade show that was planned for Oct. 24-25 in Fitchburg.
January 19, 2012
CINCINNATI (Jan. 19, 1:25 p.m. ET) -- Milacron LLC, in a hiring mode thanks to the rebounding plastics machinery market, is moving to support vocational education in southwestern Ohio.
January 19, 2012
LANSING, MICH.(Jan. 19, 12 p.m. ET) -- Austrian liquid silicone rubber molding technology supplier Elmet Elastomere Produktions – und Dienstiestungs GmbH opened a 6,000-square-foot North American headquarters in Lansing on Jan. 1.
January 19, 2012
STUTTGART, GERMANY (Jan. 17, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- Stuttgart-based compounding extruder company Coperion GmbH has entered the strand pelletizer business by purchasing a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH.
January 17, 2012
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