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At Chinaplas, Engel sees COVID accelerating digitally connected factories

At the Chinaplas 2021 fair, European injection molding machine maker Engel Holding GmbH said it sees the pandemic putting the gas pedal on digitally connected manufacturing.

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Environmental developments like resins with recycled content or made from non-fossil fuel sources were on full display at Chinaplas, held in mid-April in Shenzhen.

Handling 2 weeks of quarantine to be at Chinaplas

Our China-based reporter Rebecca Kanthor caught up with three of the quarantine travelers on the show floor to ask why it was so important to be at the fair, which ran April 13-16 in Shenzhen, and how they passed their time in isolation — books and TV, exercise, working, playing saxophone and not liking the hotel much.

‘China-only Chinaplas' opens as first major plastics show in the pandemic

Chinaplas 2021 opened April 13 in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, drawing about 44,000 visitors to the first major plastics trade show since COVID-19 swept the globe. Our China-based reporter was there.

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After limiting imports, China aims to boost domestic plastic recycling

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German specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG used the recent Chinaplas show to offer more details about its high-performance plastics plant in Changzhou, which is under construction and will be operational by spring 2019.

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Tech-Long, Unique unveil new partnership

Two Chinese manufacturers of packaging equipment, Tech-Long Packaging Machinery Co. Ltd., and Unique Injection Molding Systems, are teaming up to sell equipment in the Americas and Europe.

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