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"The topic of plastic waste has become increasingly important because the amount of litter is growing. This is due to an expanding global population and rising prosperity in many emerging economies."

German extrusion machinery company Reifenhäuser Group has acquired blown film machinery supplier Plamex Maschinenbau GmbH, a move designed in particular to enable the group to expand its offerings to the medical packaging industry.

Extruding industry colossus Sigma Plastics Group, of Pompano Beach, Florida, has ordered four coex blown film lines from Germany's Reifenhäuser GmbH && Co. KG Maschinenfabrik.

BJK Industries Inc. doing business as BJK Flexible Packaging has invested more than $4.5 million for equipment from Reifenhäuser GmbH && Co. KG Maschinenfabrik and Macro Engineering && Technology Inc.

Frankfurt, Germany — German plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers expect sales to increase 2 percent in 2016 and another 2 percent in 2017. That's a slower growth rate than last year, but a more optimistic view that the group took at the end of 2015.

The Western Plastics Association will focus on extrusion technologies and the shifting bag-ban environment at its annual conference June 23-25.

Ulrich Reifenhäuser sees some good signs in the European market, but the USA is the highlight for Reifenhäuser GmbH && Co. KG among the global markets in which it operates. Plastics News Europe talked to Reifenhäuser, managing director of the Troisdorf, Germany-based extrusion equipment manufacturer, after the recent NPE show in Orlando, Fla.

Reifenhauser Kiefel Extrusion has been renamed Reifenhauser Blown Film, and parent company Reifenhauser GmbH is investing more than 2 million euros ($2.34 million) in the Kiefel factory in Worms, Germany.

Troisdorf, Germany-based Reifenhäuser Group, a major manufacturer of extrusion equipment, has celebrated the last beam being placed in its revitalized administration building in Troisdorf, with work set to start on the interior this month.