news LETTER TO THE EDITOR
“Chinese pipes not
ours”: Krah Dear Sir, In your May 2017 edition you ran a story about ‘Krah pipes’ produced by machinery from Ningbo Fangli Technology. I’d like your readers to
know that these are NOT Krah pipes. Since 1968, we have
produced and developed Krah technology. We have several patents, and are active worldwide. Krah pipes are only produced on original Krah production lines – which are made in Germany. We are the victim of
Chinese copying, which is a huge problem for European companies. And, even though Ningbo Fangli has copied my family and brand name, the law is not able to protect us. It is ethically unaccepta-
ble that our ideas – and the development efforts of many decades – are simply stolen. Kind regards, Alexander Krah CEO, Krah Group
Lou Reade responds: The information on Ningbo was supplied by Adsale – the organiser of Chinaplas – and we used it in good faith. Adsale itself is not immune to ‘copying’: visitors to the Chinaplas website are being warned that bogus companies are posing as Adsale, and chasing payment for exhibition space at Chinaplas 2018.
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VDMA: German machine exports continue to rise
Rising exports helped to push sales of German plastics and rubber machinery up more than 5% in 2016, to reach €4.9 billion.
“The development in export
markets was particularly striking in the second half of last year,” said Ulrich Reifenhäuser, chairman of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association. World trade in plastics and rubber machinery rose by only 1% last year, so Germany’s share of the world market increased to nearly 23%. At the same time, China’s share fell slightly below 15%. “China’s suppliers are
losing ground and the gap is
Reifenhäuser: “Exports boomed in the second half of last year”
widening again,” said Reifen- häuser.
VDMA expects sales this
year to increase by 4%, followed by a 3% rise in 2018. In the first quarter of 2017,
exports to the USA – the biggest sales market for German plastics and rubber machinery – remained healthy, while there was strong growth in Mexico (more than 58%) and South Korea (nearly 45%). And, while exports to China fell slightly in the first quarter, VDMA is predicting growth for the year as a whole. On the negative side, VDMA said that the UK’s impending exit from the European Union has led to a sales slump there. Exports to the UK fell in the first quarter of this year by 31%, pushing the UK from 4th to 8th place in VDMA’s export markets. ❙
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North American machinery deliveries fall in first quarter
North American deliveries of primary plastics machinery fell again in the first quarter. The value of shipments was
estimated at just over $305m – a year-on-year decline of 7.5% according to the Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). It was also around 14% lower than sales in the final quarter of 2016. “The trend in the shipments
data for primary plastics equipment plateaued in the middle of 2016, then appeared to roll over in the past few months,” said Bill Wood of Mountaintop Economics &
Research, who compiles the figures. “The monthly com- parisons will be difficult for another quarter or two, so positive growth this year remains unlikely.” However, he said that
global demand was expected to increase this year. The delivery value of
single-screw extruders rose by more than 59%, while that of twin-screw extruders (includ- ing both co- and counter-rotat- ing machines) grew more than 8% in the same period. For comparison, injection mould- ing machines fell 14%. The upward trend in the
auxiliary equipment data remained intact in the first quarter. New bookings of ancillary equipment topped $133m in the first quarter, up more than 11% on the same period last year, and up 5% on the final quarter of 2016. In its quarterly survey of
plastics machinery suppliers, CES found that 87% of respondents expect market conditions to hold steady or improve over the next year – though this was a small decline from the 91% who gave a similar answer in the previous quarter.
www.plasticsindustry.org
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