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Plastics machinery equipment continues to improve outcomes in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and other types of plastics processing.
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Machine builder, executive part ways ‘abruptly and surprisingly'

The management shakeup comes amid realignment at Desma Elastomertechnik GmbH.

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Arburg anniversary showcases resilience, innovation

At the Anniversary Days held last week at its headquarters in Lossburg, plastics machinery manufacturer Arburg demonstrated to the world just how far the industry and the company have come in the course of a century.

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Cuts at KraussMaffei to spare US, assembly jobs

A profit warning on the Shanghai Stock Exchange says preliminary figures indicate the machine builder lost up to $275 million in 2022, including a goodwill impairment of at least $108.6 million.

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Piovan to buy selected Protec assets

Auxiliary equipment maker Piovan SpA says it will acquire a number of selected assets from Germany-based Protec Polymer Processing GmbH.

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Wittmann maintains steady sales in 2022, expects return to growth in 2023

As years go, fiscal 2022 was not at all bad for the Wittmann Group. The company saw a high order intake — well above average, in fact, especially during the first half of the year.

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Machine builder Niigata spins off injection molding unit

A manufacturing plant will be built in Japan for new company, Niigata Machinery Co. Ltd., to support growth, shorten lead times for North American customers.

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India's plastics sector wants to be the top alternative to China

At the Plastindia 2023 trade show, there was talk of India as a global supply chain alternative to China. But one executive says the country needs to tamp down on plastics bans to be more appealing.

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Upbeat machinery demand at Plastindia

Interviews at the Plastindia show, and a report from the fair organizer, offer projections for strong demand for plastics machinery in the country.

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KraussMaffei to cut ‘several hundred' jobs to improve efficiency

The company stressed that none of the redundancies will come from manufacturing or assembly of its plastics machinery.

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