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1 February 2012 | 2:31 PM

Machinery Companies will be exhibiting and operating lots more equipement at NPE2012 than in 2009

No trade show comes close to NPE for sheer dynamism, with aisle after aisle of working plastics equipment filling the exhibit halls with clamor and action. While some of this was lost at NPE2009 as the Great Recession took its toll, the excitement will come back in full force this year. In the words of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, NPE2012 will mark “The Return of the Machines.”

1 February 2012 | 2:19 PM

LANXESS expands Jhagadia site to serve booming Indian market

LANXESS is continuing to expand its Indian production site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state. The specialty chemicals group is underlining its commitment to the subcontinent by inaugurating three new plants this month to serve the growing India market. LANXESS has invested over EUR 70 million and created roughly 300 new jobs at the site.

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27 January 2012 | 2:33 PM

Westchester Plastics Completes Expansion at its Wapakoneta Compounding Facility

Westchester Plastics, a leading independent toll compounder of engineering resins, alloys, blends, reactive modifiers and other thermoplastic materials, has significantly expanded compounding capabilities at its Wapakoneta, OH facility. The new capacity provides Westchester Plastics with greater flexibility and processing capabilities and positions the plant to better meet the needs of its customers for high performance engineering resins in numerous markets.

17 January 2012 | 4:04 PM

WITTMANN BATTENFELD increases its production capacity at the Kottingbrunn facility

In response to the continuing positive order situation, and above all, strong demand for its new large machine model - the MacroPower, WITTMANN BATTENFELD has decided to increase its production capacity in 2012. The MacroPower, the company’s large machine model introduced for the first time in 2010 and now available with clamping forces ranging from 500 to 1,100 t, has met with an extremely positive response from the market.

17 January 2012 | 3:56 PM

Global Demand for Plastics Processing Machinery to Reach $28.9 Billion in 2015

Global demand for plastics processing machinery is projected to rise 6.0 percent annually through 2015 to $28.9 billion, a rebound from market declines experienced during the recession-impacted 2005-2010 period. Sales growth will be driven by an acceleration in plastic product manufacturing, as well as by a favorable fixed investment environment worldwide. Many nations are building up their plastics manufacturing infrastructure, due to both rising domestic demand for plastics-consuming goods and export opportunities to developed nations. These and other trends are presented in World Plastics Processing Machinery, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm.

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4 January 2012 | 11:16 AM

Going Back to Houston: SPE's International Polyolefins and FlexPackCon Conferences

*Sneak Peek of the February 2012 issue of Plastics Engineering

By Jan H. Schut

The possibility that the U.S. could become the second most competitive source of polyethylene in the world after the
Middle East will be front and center when the polyolefins industry gathers February 26–29 in Houston, Texas, USA, for this
year’s Polyolefins and FlexPackCon 2012 Conferences, held concurrently at the Hilton Houston North Hotel (www.spestx.
org/conference.php). The expectation of increased competitiveness of U.S. PE is based on the development of relatively inexpensive natural gas from vast shale deposits, including some in the northeastern states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Shale gas is driving ethylene expansion plans. Over last year, three chemical companies announced plans to build new ethylene crackers in the U.S. for natural gas, and a fourth new cracker is under study.

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