After an unusually CHINAPLAS-active February on the Middle Eastern Plastics website, things have returned to normal and a greater cross section of news from the region has taken your interest.
If you need reminding of some of the biggest stories from the last 31 days then read on! Our top-five most-read stories cover recycling machinery, Iran and the big LANXESS/Saudi Aramco deal… with a little bit of CHINAPLAS news thrown in for good measure.
TOMRA tech chosen for upgraded Dubai recycling plant
TOMRA Sorting has been selected as the preferred technology partner by one of the Middle East’s leading plastics recycling companies CONSENT FZCO. The company has chosen to install TOMRA units at its PET bottle washing plant in Dubai. The contract will see TOMRA’s sensor-based sorting technology increase the purity and consequently add value to CONSENT FZCO’s final flake product.
TOMRA
CHINAPLAS to show how construction can be transformed for the greener
CHINAPLAS 2016 will showcase advanced environmentally friendly plastic raw materials and cutting-edge automation equipment for green transformation and technology upgrade for the building and construction industry. New products such as plastic pipes, plastic doors and windows made of new materials and light-weighted structures continue to emerge. As application performance improves and application areas continue to broaden, the bar is continually being raised for efficient manufacturing equipment and a sustainable manufacturing capacity.
CHINAPLAS
LANXESS & Saudi Aramco announce ARLANXEO executive team
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS and Saudi Aramco are pleased to announce the members of the Executive Board of ARLANXEO, their previously announced 50:50 synthetic rubber joint venture. LANXESS will be represented by Jan Paul de Vries, who will assume the position of CEO, and Jorge Nogueira, who will become member of the Executive Board. Saudi Aramco will be represented by Ali Ba-Baidhan and Fayez Alsharef who will become CFO and CPO, respectively.
Lanxess
CHINAPLAS 2016 presents functional, intelligent, green future for packaging
CHINAPLAS is bringing the future of packaging to the world stage - and it's functional, intelligent and - most importantly - green, green, green. Packaging, is being given a bigger role in food safety with contamination prevention, and conforming to shelf-life and preserving food quality forming the foundations for modern food packaging requirements. The choice of materials and manufacturing technology of packaging is crucial to its safety requirements in an ever-changing world of markets and needs. With the latest plastic packaging solutions available out there, CHINAPLAS focuses on industry safety, environmental protection, efficiency, lightweighting, multi-functionalities and intelligentisation to promote the continuous and innovative development of the packaging industry.
CHINAPLAS
Iran's top preform producer backs SIPA tech
The largest producer of PET preforms in Iran is backing SIPA in its latest expansion drive. Khosh Form, which has operations in the cities of Mashhad (Khosh Form Toos) and Qazvin (Khosh Form Caspian) possesses 10 Husky machines and seven XFORM 500 preform injection moulding systems at both locations, all of them running with 96-cavity moulds. "The full compatibility of the SIPA XFORM with our existing equipment is a great advantage for us," said Dr Hajrezapour, owner of Khosh Form.
