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news in brief ❙ German plastic packaging


firm Jokey is to invest around €15m to set up an injection moulding plant at Uljanovsk in Russia. The new plant, located around 850km east of Moscow, will employ around 120 people and will meet growing demand from it’s Russian customers. www.jokey.com


❙ Mecalit, the German moulder of appliance parts, has officially opened its new factory at Plovdiv in Bulgaria. The operation comprises a 5,000m2 23,000m2


factory on a site. Mecalit


already has a plant at Lodz in Poland, as well as its headquarters location at Lichtenau in Germany. www.mecalit.com


❙ Technical compounds maker Bada has expanded capacity at its plants at Bühl in Germany and Huesca in Spain. Total capacity has been increased by around 4,500 tonnes to almost 29,000 tonnes a year. Bada produces a range of special- ist compounds, including PA, PBT, TPE and TPV products. www.bada.de


❙ US-based bioplastics company Cereplast has been granted a US patent covering high temperature resistant polymers based on PLA. Patent 8,222,320 covers compositions of PLA, aliphatic polyester and organically coated calcium carbonate. The company claims retention of structural properties to 74˚C or more. www.cereplast.com


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Italy’s injection machine exports down by 14%


Mid-year data released by Assocomaplast, the trade association for Italy’s manufac- turers of plastics and rubber machinery and moulds, shows the injection machinery sector is struggling both at home and in its key export markets. The plastics and rubber machinery and moulds industry as a whole saw


exports rise by 11% to exceed €1.23bn for the first half of the year. However, this was largely due to good performances by the extrusion machinery and


mouldmaking sectors. Exports of injection machinery were down by 14% in value terms over the first half of 2011, attributed to general weakness in European markets and especially Russia.


Germany, which is the


largest destination market for Italian plastics and rubber machinery, accounted for 14.7% of total machinery and mould exports and was up by 9% on the first half of 2011. Outside of Europe, Assoco- maplast reports improving


Cool solutions for LEDs


Finnish LED lighting specialist Kruunutekniika has replaced aluminium with PolyOne’s Therma-Tech thermal management polymers in its patented Coolics range of LED light fittings. While LEDs emit less heat


than current alternatives, optimum thermal manage- ment is essential to maintain effective function over extended periods. Kruunutek- niika’s Coolics technology


places the heat generating circuit boards within the casing during the injection moulding process, eliminating the need for traditional heat sinks. This metal-replacement solution manages heat while also providing improved design flexibility, reducing weight and simplifying processing and assembly, according to PolyOne. ❙ www.coolics.fiwww.polyone.com


DKI moulds lenses onto glass


Danish injection moulder DKI Group claims to have devel- oped a cost-effective produc- tion technology that allows micro-structured prismatic arrays to be applied directly to a glass sheet. The PolyGlass technology, developed with EU funding


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from the seventh Framework Programme, applies a 0.2mm thick microprismatic structure on the glass surface. Applica- tions are expected in LED lighting, LCD backlights and photovoltaic panels. ❙ www.dkiplast.dkwww.polyglass-fp7.eu


www.injectionworld.com


sales to the Americas. Exports to the NAFTA markets have been particularly strong but sales to Brazil have slowed considerably, made worse by challenging customs duties, the association said. Assocomaplast said imports of plastics machinery


into Italy, while up by 6% to €300m, had slowed over the first half. It attributed this to the persistent and extreme weakness of the Italian economy. ❙ www.assocomaplast.org


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