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Barnes Group


buys again


The Barnes Group of the US, has continued its acquisition spree in moulds and hot runners, with a deal to acquire Gammaflux on undisclosed terms. The deal is expected to close within the second quarter. Based at Sterling,


Virginia, in the US, with other offices in Illinois and Germany, Gammaflux supplies hot runner temperature and sequential valve gate control systems. These are mainly for injection moulding, though also for blow moulding, extrusion, and thermoform- ing applications in the packaging, electronics, automotive, medical and household markets. Gammaflux will operate as a business within the Barnes Group’s Industrial segment, in the Moulding Solutions strategic business unit. This includes the Synventive, Männer, Thermoplay and Priamus businesses, plus the recently acquired mould maker Foboha. ❙ www.bginc.com


ABB to acquire B&R


Automation giant ABB is to acquire B&R, the world’s largest independent provider of open-architecture systems for machine and factory automation worldwide. The deal is expected to close in the summer.


B&R will become the new Machine & Factory Automation global business unit within ABB’s Industrial Automation division, under existing managing director Hans Wimmer.


This merger brings


together B&R’s products in PLC, industrial PCs and servo motion, plus its software and systems for machine and factory automation and ABB’s offer in robotics, process automation, digitalisation and electrification. ABB said that the deal will leave it “uniquely positioned to seize growth opportunities” resulting from Industry 4.0.


Based in Eggelsberg,


Austria, B&R is named after its founders, Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, who will


remain during the transition as advisers. The Eggelsberg site will become ABB’s global centre for machine and factory automation. The company employs over 3,000 people, including about 1,000 R&D and application engineers, in operations across 70 countries. It has a customer base of over 4,000 machine manufacturers. Plastics, as well as packaging, food and beverage, are among the main industries it serves. ❙ www.abb.com


PolyOne works with Halo on home safety devices


PolyOne says it recently worked with safety devices firm Halo Smart Labs on the launch of Halo and Halo+, its next generation devices that combine fire, carbon monoxide and optional severe weather detection with both audible and visual notifications. The company supplied its Resilience LS rigid PVC material, formulated for smart home devices. After an initial approach from Halo when UL


standard testing approvals and light dispersion issues threatened to jeopardise a planned product launch, engineers from the two firms worked to incor- porate two materials that would meet these require- ments without disrupting the initial design parameters. ❙ www.polyone.com ❙ www.halosmartlabs.com


The Halo fire and carbon monoxide alarm Lindal buys land for new facility in US


The Lindal Group, the aerosol packaging manufacturer, has acquired a six-hectare site at Columbus, Indiana, in the US, on which it intends to build a 9,000 m² campus for manufac- turing, R&D, offices and


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warehousing. Due for comple- tion by the end of 2017, this expandable facility is described as “a key component” of Lindal’s $20m investment in the US to increase capacity and expand the product portfolio.


INJECTION WORLD | March/April 2017


Aerosol product production in the US reached nearly 4.6 billion units in 2015, an all-time high, according to the Consumer Specialty Products Association. A recent study by Grand View Research projects


that the global aerosol market will grow by 3.8% year from 2016 to reach just over $84bn in 2024. North America accounts for 30% of the market. ❙ www.lindalgroup.com


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