NEWS
Piovan to list its shares
The Piovan Group Piovan has started activities for listing its ordinary shares on the Mercato Telema- tico Azionario by its majority owner, Pentafin. About 35-40% of the shares are expected to be offered in a process that is expected to be launched by the end of 2018, subject to market conditions and certain regulatory approvals. Based at Santa Maria
di Sala, near Venice, Piovan produces auxiliary equipment systems for the storage, transport and processing of polymers and plastic powders. Since 2015, it has also become active in auxiliary automation systems for food powders. During the six-month period to the end of June 2018, it had total revenues and other income of €127.4m and adjusted EBITDA of €18.3m.Piovan has seven manufacturing plants around the world. �
www.piovan.com
Italian machinery trade balance weaker in H1
Italian imports of plastics and rubber processing machinery grew by 23% in H1 2018 compared to the same period last year while exports edged only fraction- ally up. This meant the trade balance fell by 7% and is attributed to “the lacklustre performance heralded in the early months of the year”, according to the country’s plastics and rubber machinery trade association Amaplast. The plastics machinery industry was still over €1bn in the black in total, but €14m in the red for injection moulding machinery. “The dynamism of purchases from abroad may be interpreted as renewed faith in the domestic market, mainly due to investment incentives that are likely to be renewed and naturally hoped for by businesses in the industry,” Amaplast said in its analysis. Strongest growing import sectors included injection moulding machines (+31%), blow moulding machines (+75%), flexographic
Italian plastics machinery exports by destination (% share and ∆% H1 2018/H1 2017)
Source: Amaplast
printers (+111%) and moulds (+12%). This was driven mainly by strong demand from the packaging sector, which grew by 14% last year and has continued on a strong growth path in 2018.
Amaplast said Germany
remains the largest exporter of plastics machinery to Italy and widened its lead over China in H1. Europe remains the
largest export market for Italy’s plastics machinery firms, accounting for 61% of the total, although export sales were static year-on-
year. The NAFTA countries were in second place and saw a 7% increase in sales. Russia, which had a very strong 2017, saw a major decline. Sales to Asia, Oceania and the rest of Latin America were down. According to Amaplast
president Alessandro Grassi, its members’ July order books were stable to slightly up on both June 2018 and July 2017. “This gives us reason to hope for a rebound in production and exports in the last quarter of the year,” he said. �
www.amaplast.it
Wittman takes stake in ICE-flex MES firm
The Wittman Group has entered into a joint venture with ICE-flex, an Italian producer of manufacturing execution systems (MESs) mainly for injection moulding companies with up to 50 machines per production plant. This will enable Wittmann to offer TEMI, a modular MES package, to its customers. According to Wittmann, TEMI “offers a considerable number of easy-to-
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operate functionalities as standard”, while also being able to support various manufacturer-dependent versions and interpretations of Euromap 63, which together cover virtually all machine manufacturers on the European market. The new Euromap 77 protocol will be intro- duced as an additional future commu- nication standard at Fakuma 2018.
Wittmann Battenfeld is selling the
package developed by ICE-flex for production planning, monitoring and data storage under the brand name TEMI+. The ‘+’ is said to stand for “the support of functions which can only be realised with Wittmann 4.0 production cells”, which connect machines and auxiliaries in a moulding plant. �
www.wittmann-group.com
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