Fewer visitors at Fakuma
The twenty-ninth edition of Fakuma, the international plastics fair, a well-established event for the injection moulding industry, closed a few days ago in Friedrichshafen, on Constance Lake. The numb ...
Over 4 million robots at work in factories
According to data contained in the World Robotics report released today by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), there were 4,281,585 robots at work in factories around the world last year, ...
Plastic-rubber machinery on the brakes
Amaplast, the association of Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery manufacturers, reports a decline in sectoral imports and exports in the first half of 2024 compared to the first six month ...
Weak industrial production in June
The Istat index of industrial production shows a contrasting sign for the month of June: it grows by +0.5% compared to May, confirming the trend of the last two months, while it still shows a decrease ...
Weak industrial production in June
The Istat index of industrial production shows a contrasting sign for the month of June: it grows by +0.5% compared to May, confirming the trend of the last two months, while it still shows a decrease ...
Increased costs of the Flexible
The Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) price survey on flexible packaging in Europe, released these days by the association Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), shows an increase in the second quarter of the ...
Plastics and rubber: record year for Italian manufacturers
The plastics and rubber machinery sector in Italy recorded a record year in 2023, with a significant increase in turnover of 9.4% over the previous year.
Capital goods awaiting the 5.0 transition
Plastics, the association representing the plastics industry in the United States and organiser of the NPE show, released the official numbers on the latest edition of the event, held in Orlando, Flor ...
April, production in the red
In April, the downward trend in industrial production. In fact, the Istat index lost one percentage point compared to March and -2.9% in the comparison with the same month last year, net of calendar e ...