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ERIE, PA. — Baxter the robot wowed attendees May 23 at Penn State Erie's Injection Molding Conference.

AHEMEDABAD, INDIA — India’s largest plastics processing machinery maker, Windsor Machines Ltd., is acquiring a majority stake in Italian injection press maker Italtech SpA.

VAUGHAN, ONTARIO — When Robert Schad and his team began Athena Automation Ltd., they wanted to start with a clean sheet of paper. Taking everything the industry now knows about injection molding and lean manufacturing, they asked themselves,...

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...

SCHWAIG, GERMANY — Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH has promoted two executives into senior positions as Shaun Dean moves from the injection moulding machine company to its Japanese parent Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Pavan Zanetti, one of the Brazilian market's top producers of injection and blow molding machines, displayed new models and renewed confidence in Brazilian demand bouncing back this year after two straight years of sales declines.

TORRINGTON, CONN. — Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH is investing $2.4 million on a 20,200-square-foot expansion in Torrington — as the Austrian machinery maker needs more space to house larger-tonnage injection molding machines and put together ...

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — The maker of Romi and Sandretto machines is in the process of closing its manufacturing plants in Italy and focusing all of its manufacturing in Brazil.

GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Injection press maker Engel Austria GmbH said sales in Asia topped the Americas for the first time ever in its most recent fiscal year, reaching a record for the region at 145 million euros and accounting for 18 percent of its 950 million euros in global revenue.