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❙ Injection moulded compo- nents maker US Farathane Corporation has been acquired by private equity firm Gores Group and some of its management team for an undisclosed amount. The Michigan-headquartered processor has 10 manufac- turing sites across the US and is a major supplier of interior and exterior plastic parts to customers including Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota and Honda.
www.usfarathane.com
❙ German plastics packaging producer association IK’s latest member survey reveals an expectation of modest improvement during 2015, despite weakness in many European markets. However, the association said there was some concern over the level of investment in the sector, pointing out that Germany’s investment rate is currently one of the lowest of all industrialised countries.
www.kunststoffverpackungen.de
Italian bioplastics producer Novamont has signed an agreement with agricultural cooperative Coldiretii to encourage the development of cardi in Sardinia as a commercial crop for production of short chain oils and bioplastics at the Matrica biorefinery at Porto Torres (a joint venture between Novamont and chemical company Versalis). Cardi is a low input crop that requires no irrigation and will grow on land unsuitable for regular agriculture. ❙
www.novamont.it
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Bericap launches cap with a second-life
StackCap is a new plastic closure from Bericap that re-purposes into a “snap- together” construction toy element after use. The new closure is available for the industry standard
PCO1881 neck finish and can be used on carbonated and still beverages. Acccording to Bericap, the “second-use” concept is ecologically sound, economically affordable and provides a wide range of additional marketing opportu- nities to brand owners. StackCap is based on the
Groovy Cap concept developed by UK-based Smooth HIP. “The key focus was the secondary use and added-value it brings
as a brand ambassador,” said Smooth HIP managing director Arno Rabie. ❙
www.bericap.com ❙
www.smoothhip.com l Rabie will be speaking at AMI’s 3rd Plastic Closure Innovations conference in Berlin, Germany, from 9-11 June. Other speakers include experts from Euromonitor, GCS, Kao Group, Nolato Cerbo and Spadel. Download the full programme here.
Moretto takes to the road
Italian ancillary equipment maker Moretto will kick-off its European ‘road show’ next month when its mobile exhibition begins with a tour of Germany. Previewed to visitors to the
Fakuma trade show in October last year, the “Moretto in Motion” truck-based exhibition will allow the company to demonstrate its drying, convey- ing, dosing and temperature control technologies to plastics processors at their own site. “To my knowledge this is the first time a manufacturer
Esterform buys Constar UK
UK-based Esterform Packag- ing has acquired the Constar UK PET preform and packag- ing business based at Sherburn-in-Elmet near York. The move follows Ester-
form’s announcement at the end of last year of an £8m
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investment programme, including the installation of four new Husky HPP 4.0 PET preform production lines, to lift capacity at its dedicated preform injection moulding plant at Leeds by 1bn units to 2.6bn. The investment also
includes Piovan drying systems and plant automation. Esterform founder Mark
Tyne said the acquisition of the Constar business will take the group’s capacity above 3bn units. ❙
www.esterform.com
www.injectionworld.com
of ancillary equipment for the plastics processing industry takes his entire, market-rele- vant, product portfolio as close to the customer as it is possible to be,” said Moretto founder and president Renato
Moretto. After Germany, the Moretto
truck tour will take in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. ❙
www.moretto.com
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