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Milacron realigns customer service lines


May 8, 2013 11:23 am ET

Milacron LLC has consolidated numerous customer service lines, from across the Americas, into one main line at its manufacturing facility in Batavia, Ohio.The phone line brings customer service representatives together with Milacron’s engineers and management, ensuring more effective solutions and faster service. The call center also added...

Cepalgo Films buys Davis-Standard line


May 8, 2013 11:22 am ET

Davis-Standard LLC has sold a cast film line to Cepalgo Films of Aparecide de Goiania in Goiás, Brazil.The machine produces dry and wet embossed films as well as polyethylene-coated nonwovens used in diapers, hygienic absorbent products and other medical-care products.Eduardo Scodro, director of Cepalgo, said the Brazilian market for...

Reifenhauser names supplier award winners


May 8, 2013 11:21 am ET

Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik of Troisdorf, Germany, named its Supplier Awards for 2012:Anton Klein Industrieverpackungen + Logistik GmbH, a supplier of industrial packaging and logistics services in Hennef, Germany.Seco Tools GmbH of Fagersta, Sweden, a metal cutting tools supplier.A. & C. Kosik GmbH of Kelheim, Germany, a...

DME ranks high on magazine survey


May 8, 2013 11:18 am ET

DME Co. has earned the No. 2 ranking in the 2013 Quality Magazine Leadership 100 survey.The Madison Heights, Mich., maker of mold components jumped 28 spots to come in second, behind Ford Motor Co. The magazine evaluated more than 400 companies on a variety of quality metrics that affect profitability and company value.DME leaders credited...

KraussMaffei celebrates 175 years


May 8, 2013 11:17 am ET

KraussMaffei Group GmbH celebrated its 175th birthday on March 20, born in Munich in 1838.In the late 1950s, KraussMaffei began making injection molding presses, and soon added extruders and reaction process machinery. Since the 1999/2000 year, KM has focused entirely on machinery for the plastics and rubber industries. Tooday the company...

Slide Products marks 60 years


May 8, 2013 11:16 am ET

Slide Products Inc., which makes mold releases, mold cleaners, rust preventives, lubricants, purging compounds and other products in Wheeling, Ill., is celebrating its 60th anniversary.It began in 1953, when a young man named Percy Harms was selling steel to mold builders when he saw a need in the young plastics and injection molding...

Dieffenbacher reports sales growth


May 8, 2013 11:15 am ET

Officials of Dieffenbacher GmbH, which makes composite forming production lines and machines to make wood-based panels, reported that 2012 turnover increased to more than 400 million euros ($519 million), an increase of more than 50 million euros from 2011.Dieffenbacher, based in Eppingen, Germany, employs 1,780 people.The composite Forming...

Water filtration system eliminates curved screen pump


April 24, 2013 11:35 am ET

BKG Bruckmann & Kreyenborg Granuliertechnik GmbH said its new Optigon water filtration system eliminates the curved screen pump of the Optiline, while improving filtration.As an option, all water systems are designed with insulation, so the heat energy is stored and not released to the environment.Optigon uses a fraction of the Optiline and...

Spanish recycling technology supplier opens US office


April 24, 2013 11:33 am ET

PICVISA, a Barcelona, Spain-based recycling technology supplier, has opened a U.S. subsidiary, PICVISA Recycling Technologies Inc. in O’Fallon, Mo., near St. Louis.The office opened Feb. 4, run by Dan Morris, PICVISA’s North American sales manager.The company’s products include optical sorters for paper, plastic and glass, and...

Master Technologies adds online courses for injection molding


April 24, 2013 11:33 am ET

Novi, Mich.-based Mastery Technologies Inc. has announced two online courses on injection molding: teaching proper safety, cleaning and setup procedures.Both courses also give students an understanding of how to best prepare for a mold change and how to properly remove a mold, plus how to initial setup and programming for a production run.Mastery...

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