Industry veteran Traxler joined Engel in 2015 and previously headed the company’s packaging business unit in North America.
Headquartered in Tennessee, Tri State is said to be one of the largest manufacturers of prescription packaging in the U.S.
The facilities – located in Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., and Ashland, Mass. – will provide a broad portfolio of sterilizable medical device packaging substrates including coated and uncoated Tyvek, heat-seal and cold-seal coated paper and films, medical grade laminates and die-cut lids and labels.
As part of its push into North America, the Austria-based maker of blow molding machines recently sold an APF-6004 automatic stretch blow molding unit for PET bottles to Hawaiian bottled water supplier Waiākea Water.
The beer growler was sold to Arch Brewing, of Newmarket, Ont., as a lightweight, event-friendly plastic alternative to glass.
Nagarajan will succeed Michael Hilton, who is stepping down after almost 10 years with the company, effective August 1.
The program rewards advances in thermoforming design and application.
Headquartered in Stockton, Calif., Advanced Polymer Technologies extrudes stock shapes for the semiconductor, aerospace/defense, energy, and medical industries.
While 2018 ended with strong plastics machinery shipments in North America, 2019 has started soft, according to new figures from the Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics.
Headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, DaVinci molds polymer roofing and siding products for high-end roofing applications.
A list of the banned items has not yet been announced.
The investment, to be made over the next two years, will allow Trex to increase capacity by 70 per cent.
Dr. Michael Ruf, chief operating officer of the KraussMaffei Group, will serve as interim president of KraussMaffei Corp. until a new leader is appointed.
Located near Charleston, the 116,000-square-foot facility will provide for expanded sales, applications, service, and training functions.
Located in Samutprakarn, one of Thailand’s leading industrial regions, the new facility is Arburg’s largest showroom in Southeast Asia.
Sonic Plastics specializes in making HDPE bottles for the nutraceutical, health and beauty end markets.
Fanuc’s all-electric Roboshot injection molding machines can now be equipped with Sepro’s Cartesian robots.
To be opened in the second half of 2020, the facility will be used for building large injection molding machines and turnkey systems.
The Germany-based Injection molding machine maker has named Frédéric Vandecandelaere as the new managing director of its French subsidiary Arburg SAS, which is its oldest international subsidiary.
Headquartered in Grand rapids, Mich., Ranir molds toothbrushes, and also makes teeth whiteners, dental floss, and flossers.
