The annual members assembly of ASSOCOMAPLAST – the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together over 160 makers of machinery, moulds and equip-ment for plastics and rubber – was held on Friday, 19 June at the Science and Technology Mu-seum in Milan. The assembly elected a new President for the two-year term 2015-2017: Alessandro Grassi, managing director of Frigosystem srl, who in turn named Andrea Franceschetti, international sales director for Gefran spa, as Vice President of the association. The members assembly was followed by the public Assocomaplast

Italy's ICMA San Giorgio (Milan, Italy), In collaboration with a leading European producer of cutting systems, has launched a lab-line unit for testing in Monroe, Michigan, USA (near Detroit). This pelletizing and compounding line unit, equipped with ICMA’s 50 mm diameter co-rotating extruder from the MCM high torque family, is particularly versatile and covers a wide range of compounds including techno-polymers and filled compounds. The line also comprises a gravimetric dosing system from Enginplast and a control system from Gefran, two well-known Italian companies that have teamed up with

MEXICO CITY - The plastics industry, in its transformation, is becoming sustainable, because previously the sector's equipment spent a lot of energy, which came to represent up to 30% of its cost, but this has been reduced thanks to the arrival of fourth-generation machines that have been designed to save energy, said Jose Navarro, General Manager at E.J. Krause Mexico. "They have changed hydraulic equipment that require maintaining an adequate level of pressure to move the molds, which are very heavy elements, for electric systems that are assisted by motors, which makes operations much

PLASTIMAGEN Mexico 2013, the leading event in the plastics industry in Latin America, will present the latest technology and trends to more than 30,000 professional visitors from more than 34 countries. Given the importance of this event, it is expected to close business for more than 120 million dollars, which is equivalent to more than 15% of the investment in machinery in the industry. Visitors will be able to learn about the national and international technology that Plastimagen Mexico presents, as well as the vanguard and plastic solutions for the automotive, pharmaceutical, food and