In this issue

Taiwan has gained an enviable position as one of the world’s leading suppliers of plastics machinery with many of the local manufacturers now aggressively moving forward in the global market. This is not surprising as many Taiwanese companies have spent years of painstaking work and huge investments poured into R&D to develop products meeting international standards.
This issue focuses on TaipeiPLAS 2018, which serves as a showcase of the best in Taiwan ndustrial sector. The supplement on this major exhibition provides an overview on the highlights and roducts on exhibit.
With IML now becoming more advanced, complex packaging designs can be achieved to ensure that food and other sensitive products are guaranteed fresh without sacrificing on the quality and aesthetic appeal.
At the ENGEL Forum in Linz, Austria, the ENGEL Group has shown how the digital transformation is guiding its inject 4.0 into a new dimension and how this can ultimately optimise customer’s competitiveness and manage complex requirements by offering assistance systems.

Sophistication Of The Simplest Machine

As an internationally recognised plastic recycling machine manufacturer, Polystar Machinery Co., Ltd, specialises in postindustrial (in-house) recycling with its simplest easy-operation recycling system in the market today.

3 mins

BPA-free Plastics For Small Appliances

Eastman celebrates a decade of design innovation with its market-transforming material, Tritan™ copolyester, a BPA-free plastic resin material that combines shatterproof properties with the brilliance of glass.

4 mins

Polyamides For E-mobility

At the ASEAN Automotive & Motorcycle Parts Manufacturing Summit 2018 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and organised by Ringier Trade Media through its Ringier Events, a new breed of performance polyamides was the topic of a presentation of Jean-Yves Grand, SEA and Japan Development Director at Solvay.

3 mins

Information-Packed Event For The Packaging Industry

The largest exhibition on packaging technology in Indonesia has always been a venue where exchange of information on the latest production processes and raw materials is valued by all those involved.

2 mins

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International Plastics News for Asia Magazine Description:

International Plastics News for Asia is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Chinese. The magazine is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of South East Asia's plastics processing industry, including contract molders and manufacturers with in-plant machinery lines. It provides the latest market information, quality technical features, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from Ringier's family of plastics industry magazines covering Greater China region, the Middle East and other parts of the world, such as Modern Plastics and Polymers in India, Plastics Engineering in the US, Kunststoffe in Germany, Polymer Materials in Russia, Technologia del Plastico in Latin Amercia – which are the leading magazines in their respective markets. The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s plastics website in English and Chinese (plastics.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.