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CLIFTON, N.J. (Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Injection molder Polymer Technologies Inc. has acquired injection molding toolmaker Polmold Tool Inc., adding new capabilities in tooling that will allow PTI to bring increased understanding and capabilities in mold-making in-house.
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
NEW DELHI (Feb. 3, 12 p.m. ET) -- Italian mold maker Roto Moulds srl and M. Plast (India) Ltd. have signed a technology transfer agreement to boost the Indian firm’s capabilities and use it as a base to tap into new markets like the Middle East and Africa.
February 3, 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
GEORGETOWN, ONTARIO (Updated Jan. 28, 8:30 p.m. ET) -- Mold-Masters Ltd. has just completed a $20 million expansion of its Kunshan, China, hotrunner plant. The firm added 68,000 square feet and a range of machinery including CNC lathes and mills at the site, which was established in 2005.
January 27, 2012
GERMANTOWN, WIS. (Jan. 25, 12:45 p.m. ET) -- Strong demand is leading mold maker Plasticraft Molds Inc. to move to a larger location in Richfield, Wis. Plasticraft Molds currently occupies a 5,000 square-foot space in Germantown, but president and owner Eric Marlow said that the firm “is boxed in and needs more room.”
January 25, 2012
WOODSTOCK, ILL. (Jan. 25, 11:10 a.m. ET) -- Daniel Slavin, the second-generation president and CEO of family-owned custom packaging thermoformer Dordan Manufacturing Co. Inc., wants more growth and more profits — just like anyone else who runs a company. But what is equally as important to Slavin, if not more important, is to make sure the company’s beliefs, culture and hard- work ethic stay ingrained in its workforce.
January 25, 2012
BOLTON, ONTARIO (Jan. 24, 3:10 p.m. ET) -- Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. will sell Injectoplast, the beverage closure molding operation of Austrian maker of closure molds KTW Group, to Alpla Holding GmbH.
January 24, 2012
ROLLING MEADOWS, ILL. (Jan. 23, 4:25 p.m. ET) -- The American Mold Builders Association’s quarterly business forecast survey revealed a generally jovial outlook for the present and future of the tooling industry.
January 23, 2012
DELANO, MINN. (Jan. 23, 2 p.m. ET) -- Sil-Pro Medical Manufacturing Solutions said it is expanding its Delano-based facilities with the recent purchase of a 55,000 square foot building.
January 23, 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
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
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Jan. 17, 3 p.m. ET) -- Century Mold Co. Inc. is expanding in Tennessee and Mexico to keep up with its customers. The firm, which is heavily involved in automotive injection molding, is seeing growth in its key market and in relatively new business areas, said Century Mold CEO and President Ron Ricotta.
January 17, 2012
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