SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Vast stretches of cheap, undeveloped land and ports free of the congestion that plagues southern Brazil are drawing major plastics companies to the northeastern states of Alagoas and Bahia to expand production.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Expanding service staff and helping Brazilian clients find competitive financing overseas should help KraussMaffei Group boost sales this year in an increasingly competitive plastics machinery market, the local chief executive officer said at Feiplastic in São Paulo.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Injection molding machine manufacturer Chen Hsong has targeted Brazil for its first branch outside of China, opening a sales office and parts facility within the next month, and offering clients in-house financing with rates lower than most Brazilian banks, the company's commercial manager for South America said at...
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — German specialty chemicals and plastics maker Lanxess AG will open its seventh factory in Brazil by the end of this year or early 2014. The facility, in Porto Feliz, will include a mega-extruder to make nylon and polybutylene terephthalate compounds.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Auxiliary equipment producer Conair Group, which has sold and serviced machinery in Brazil since 1976 but has no local manufacturing or sales presence, is eyeing Brazilian expansion that could include more service...
MEXICO CITY — Guangdong Yizumi Precision Machinery Co Ltd has authorized Industrias Plásticas Maximo SA de CV, of Cuautitlán Izcalli, to sell Yizumi-brand presses in the region running from Mexico to the top of South America.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Vitopel SA, Latin America's largest plastics films producer and top annual consumer of polypropylene, has been working with local manufacturers and recyclers, including Braskem SA, to produce a paper made from 75 percent recycled plastic.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL -- It took less than a year for residents of São Paulo, the world's eighth most populous city, to squash a new state law eliminating free plastic grocery bags.
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