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AMI magazine Apps pass 20,000 download mark
The iPad/iPhone and Android Apps for AMI’s four plastics industry magazines have exceeded 20,000 downloads in just 14 months. “We have been delighted by
the response to the Apps which are helping to grow the international audiences for our four magazines,” said Andy Beevers, head of business publishing at AMI. “The USA is leading the way in the number of downloads, but we are also seeing very strong demand in markets such as China, India, Thailand, Turkey, Mexico and Brazil”. The free Apps for Injection World, which are sponsored by
Maguire, have been download- ed 7,659 times to date. Downloads of the Apps for the other three magazines – Com- pounding World, Film and Sheet Extrusion and Pipe and
Profile Extrusion – take the current total to 20,425. “Our magazines are still
mostly read online using computers, but more and more people are discovering the benefits of reading them on tablet computers and smart- phones, especially as our Apps mean that the magazines can still be read when you’re offline,” said Beevers. The Injection World App
provides access to the 15 most recent editions. You can find and download the Apps by searching for the magazine title or ‘AMI Plastics’ in iTunes, Apple’s App Store or Google Play. ❙
www.amimagazines.com
Juffali PolyOne jv starts production
Juffali PolyOne Masterbatch, a joint venture operation between PolyOne of the US and E A Juffali & Brothers, has commenced production at its new facility at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
The new facility is focused on production of specialty
colour masterbatches but has the potential for expansion into other product areas in the future, according to PolyOne. l Meanwhile, PolyOne has agreed the sale of its vinyl dispersion, blending and suspension resin assets to Mexico’s Mexichem for US$250
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million in cash. The vinyl resin business, which includes two production sites and an R&D centre and was PolyOne’s last remaining base resin opera- tion, generating sales of US$147 million in 2012. ❙
www.polyone.com ❙
www.mexichem.com
Bioplastics conference programme impresses
AMI’s third Bioplastics Compounding and Process- ing conference will be held in Miami, Florida, USA, on 7-8 May. This year’s conference
will feature a presentation on the use of bioplastics in IT applications from IBM sustainability expert Joe Kuczynski, while Lux Research and Beroe discuss market issues. There will also be papers
on developments in bioplas- tics resins, additives and compounds delivered by companies such as PolyOne, Teknor Apex, FKuR, Braskem, Nature- Works, Purac, Clariant and DuPont.
In addition, the confer-
ence will look at the latest bioplastic compounding innovations, with presenta- tions by Coperion, Gneuss and B&P.
The full conference
programme can be viewed at:
http://bit.ly/151nhpy
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