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Assocomaplast: Italy machine sales rise in 2016
Italian manufacturers of plastics machinery saw a small rise in production last year – which coincided with a spike in imports. Trade body Assocomaplast
reported sales of €4.23bn for Italian-made machinery in 2016, a rise of 1.9%. Exports grew by 1.7%, to
reach €2.97bn. These sales account for around 70% of production, and saw rises in extruders (5%), thermoform- ing machinery (10%) and injection moulding machinery (18%), it said. “This is a new historical
record for exports – which are approaching €3 billion,” said Alessandro Grassi, president of Assocomaplast. Overall sales to Europe fell,
Grassi: “This is a new historical record for imports"
due mainly to poor sales to countries outside the European Union. However, there was an increase in sales to Asia – in- cluding Iran and Saudi Arabia. There was also a 45%
increase in sales to India, making it the 11th
largest
export market. Sales to North America
were mixed: while there was a 70% increase in sales to Mexico, those to the USA fell by imported machinery, to €850m. This was driven by injection moulding machinery, extruders (both up by 39%) and blow moulding machinery (up 118%). “This confirms signs that the domestic market is regaining altitude after too many years of stagnation,” said Grassi. Expectations for 2017 are
positive, with 43% of respond- ents to an Assocomaplast survey believing that the first half of the year will be an improvement on the second half of 2016. ❙
www.assocomaplast.org
ProAmpac acquires Trinity
Flexible packaging company ProAmpac has acquired Trinity Packaging, which specialises in large format packaging for the lawn and garden, food and speciality industrial markets. Terms were not disclosed. Both companies are based in the USA. The combined company will have 22 manufacturing sites and 3,000 employees. Greg Tucker, CEO of
ProAmpac, said: “I am confident that ProAmpac’s innovation coupled with Trinity’s capabilities will cement our role as strategic partners to our customers and suppliers.” ❙
www.proampac.com ❙
www.trinitypackaging.com
Chinaplas 2018 show set to relocate
Chinaplas exhibition organiser Adsale has confirmed that the 2018 event is to relocate to the new National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai’s Hongqiao District. The move was not unexpect- ed as ongoing growth meant the 2016 event was pushing the limits of the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre in the Pudon district; more than 16% of the total exhibition space at last year’s exhibition had to be housed in temporary structures. “We really ran out of space in Shanghai New International Exhbition Centre,” said Adsale
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General Manager Ada Leung. “Evaluation and analysis on moving to NECC began in early 2016 and, considering the long term development of the show,
we made the decision to move in the fourth quarter.” Opened in 2015, the NECC of indoor and
offers 400,000m2 100,000m2
of outdoor exhibi-
tion space; Adsale said its target for Chinaplas 2018 is around 300,000m2
. To ensure a
smooth transition of the event, Leung said it had arranged extended move-in and move-out periods for the first NECC event. Chinaplas takes place every
year, alternating between Guangzhou and Shanghai. The next event takes place on 16-19 May of this year at the China Import & Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou and is expected to extend to 250,000m2
with Shanghai's NECC complex FILM & SHEET EXTRUSION | April 2017
3,300 exhibitors and around 140,000 visitors. ❙
www.chinaplasonline.com
www.filmandsheet.com
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