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News CPIA names 2007 award winners
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association will be celebrating the achievements of nine industry veterans when it presents its annual awards at a dinner in Toronto on April 30, the evening before the opening of Plast-Ex 2007. The association is conferring more awards than usual, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary theme of the show, which is on from May 1 – 3 at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont.
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Topping the list is Leader of the Year Manfred Lupke, chairman and CEO of Corma Inc., which produces equipment for corrugated plastic pipe manufacturing. The company operates from a 100,000 sq ft facility in Vaughan, Ont., and a 20,000 sq ft plant in Forest, Ont. with a total staff of 180. The company has been family-owned and operated for 33 years and its business sells into 80 markets that generate over 70 per cent of its revenues outside of North America.
Life Achievement Awards will go to four business leaders: Robert (Bob) Barrett, president of Polytainers Inc.; Lorne Berggren, CEO of Berg Chilling and Mould-tek Industries Inc.; Jobst Gellert, founder of Mold-Masters; and Mike Schmidt, founder of the ABC Group.
There will also be a group of CanPlast Awards given to people who have contributed their time, energy and expertise to improving the competitive and environmental performance of the industry. This year's recipients are: Paul Clark, industry consultant, recently retired vice president of research for Nova Chemicals; Dave Douse, recently retired from Pliant Corp. as vice president, sales, for Canada; Andrew Rush, vice-president operations, Brite Manufacturing and current chair of the Canadian Natural Composites Council of CPIA; Dennis Shanley, recently retired industry specialist, Manufacturing Industries Branch, Industry Canada; and Bill Wybenga, technical director, Brampton Engineering and a long time active volunteer on CPIA committees and councils.
www.cpia.ca/awards US machinery sales drop, extrusion business up
The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. (Washington, DC) says the total value of plastics machinery shipments in 2006 was done four per cent from 2005's total. However, extrusion machinery business was up by 21 per cent.
In the fourth quarter of the year, US manufacturers and importers of primary plastics machinery and equipment shipped $252-million in machinery (all figures in US dollars), 12 per cent lower than the $256-million shipped in the third quarter of 2006. For all 2006, shipments of primary plastics equipment totaled slightly more than $1-billion.
Economist Bill Woo provided the analysis for SPI's report, forecasting a leveling off period followed by growth in 2008. "A gradual downtrend may well persist through the first half of 2007,” he commented, “but spending for new equipment should begin to pick up in the second half of this year. The latest forecast calls for a flat year for shipments of plastics machinery in 2007 followed by a return to growth in 2008."
The report says extrusion machinery shipments totaled $39.5-million in the fourth quarter of 2006, 10 per cent stronger than the $35.8-million shipped in the third quarter. The shipment dollar value of blow molding machinery in the fourth quarter of 2006 was $36.7 million – up 85 percent from the $19.8 million shipped during the third quarter. For the year, blow moulding machinery shipments totaled $75.1-million, down six per cent compared with 2005.
The total value of injection moulding machinery shipments in the fourth quarter of 2006 was $176-million, 12 per cent less than the $200.5-million shipped in the third quarter of the year. For the entire year, the shipment dollars total for injection moulding machinery decreased eight per cent compared with 2005.
The report can be found online at SPI's Plastics Industry Store, www.plasticsindustry.org.
Bio-based materials receive cash boost in Ontario
The Ontario BioAuto Council has receives $6-million for development and demonstration of bio-based materials from the Ontario government. The council's aim is to use bio-based feedstocks for industrial materials, and it is working to link agriculture and forestry with the chemicals and plastics industry to produce materials and chemicals
from biological feedstocks.
The materials, such as flexible foams and rigid plastics, would be supplied to auto parts manufacturers and assemblers for incorporation into Ontario-built cars and trucks. Opportunities also exist in fine chemical manufacturing using lignin and hemicellulose from trees and enhanced biofibre production - from agriculture or forestry sources, for use in composite materials and as a replacement for fibreglass.
The Ontario BioAuto Council operates under a founding advisory board from automotive assembly and automobile manufacturing companies, agriculture, forestry, chemical and plastic manufacturing, public research, and several Ontario ministries. It has an office in Guelph, Ont.
www.bioautocouncil.com
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Changes
Adolfo Edgar is now regional sales manager for the eastern US with Brampton Engineering (Brampton, Ont.). He is a veteran of the film extrusion industry, having begun his career as technical services manager with Peruplast, in Peru. After moving to Canada in 1990 he worked for processors and packaging companies in the greater Toronto area, and began his film equipment sales and marketing career in 1999.
www.be-ca.com
Adolfo Edgar
Commercial Plastic Recyclers (Mississauga, Ont.) has been sold to Bryan Beckstead.
www.cprecyclers.com
Machines Pages (Foncine, France), a manufacturer of robotics systems and automation equipment for injection moulders and thermoformers, has appointed Fernando Segovia (Toronto) as exclusive representative for the company in North and South America.
segovia.pages@cogeco.ca
W. Andrew Spicer has been promoted to sales manager - Canada for Channel Prime Alliance. Channel Prime Alliance's product portfolio includes Dow, Ticona, ExxonMobil & Ineos PP plus a line of compounded products from H. Muehlstein & Co. Lee Thompson and Steve Rae, both formally of Ashland, have joined Channel Prime as account managers.
SEI Chemical of Northridge, Cal., has purchased 21st Century Coatings Ltd. of Vancouver. The two firms have diverse lines of high-end industrial coatings using fluorinated and silicone resins systems for anti-corrosion, anti-microbiological, ant-graffiti, anti-stick, marine and high-heat applications.
www.seichemical.com
Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, has become the first municipality in Canada to ban plastic shopping bags, following its decision a year ago to place a levy on them. Retailers giving out single-use bags face a $1,000-a-day fine. Officials have been handing out cloth shopping bags to residents.
www.townofleafrapids.ca
Impact Tool & Mould Inc. (Windsor, Ont. ) will auction assets on April 17. Corporate Assets Inc. (Toronto) will conduct the auction. Its predecessor, Impact Tool & Mould Inc. went into receivership last year after a business rival, Unique Tool & Gauge Inc., also of Windsor, won a $600,000 court judgement against it.
www.corpassets.com
Omya has concluded the acquisition of Huber's precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) business. The acquisition totals eleven plants: four in North America including Saskatchewan, five in the European Union and one each in South America and Russia.
www.omya.com
Windsor Kunststofftechnologie GmbH (Hanau, Germany) has been sold by New Jersey-based Taylor's Worldwide LLC to Francis & Associates, LLC, an independent American financial investor based in Michigan. Windsor is an independent service company with global operations in the plastics industry. It is active in servicing and refurbishing old Windsor injection moulding machines, and also sells pumps, motors and purpose-built machinery.
www.windsor-gmbh.de
GE Plastics received this year's Society of Plastics Engineers environmental award for New Technologies in Progress for its Valox iQ and Xenoy iQ resins. These resin grades are synthesized from post consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles that get up-cycled to make polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin, offering virgin thermoplastic properties with an extremely low carbon footprint. The award was made at the 2007 Global Plastics Environmental Conference in Orlando, Fla.
www.geplastics.com
Riverdale Color Manufacturing, Inc. (Perth Amboy, NJ) has named John Vandenbergh director of marketing and sales worldwide. He has nearly 30 years' experience in the plastics industry, and most recently held directed sales and operations for his own firm, J.A. Vandenbergh Sales, Inc. and Remak, an international robotics manufacturing firm.
www.riverdalecolor.com
John Vandenbergh
Al Hodge, a veteran of the plastics extrusion market, has joined Standex Engraving Group (Richmond, Va.), a division of publicly traded Standex International Corp. Hodge will be directing the domestic sales force and expanding global sales opportunities within existing and developing markets. Standex Engraving Group' products include rolls and plates to apply textured surfaces and embossing/calendering machinery.
www.standexengraving.com
Al Hodge
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (Arlington, Va.) has hired Debbie Ayres as the new director of membership and marketing. She brings 25 years of management and leadership experience to the association.
www.acmanet.orgl
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Coming
Events April 14-18: 29th annual spring meeting of the Association of Rotational Molders. At Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa, Las Vegas. (Contact: 630-571-0611 or info@rotomolding.org).
April 19: Society of Plastics Engineers, Ontario section: Injection Moulding Minitec, at the Delta Toronto Airport West Hotel. (Contact: Pam Robb at 905-671-1511 ext. 206 or probb@brenntag.ca).
April 30: Canadian Plastics Industry Association Awards Gala, at the Westin Bristol Place Toronto Airport Hotel. (Contact: Hilary Sturdevant at 905-678-7748 ext. 225 or at hsturdevant@cpia.ca). May 1-3: Plast-Ex 2007, Canada's not-to-be-missed national plastics trade show. At the International Centre, Toronto. (Contact: Sally Damstra at 905-678-7748 or sdamstra@cpia.ca).
May 5: Galea Awards, CPIA Quebec's annual recognition of outstanding individuals and companies. At Hotel Mortagne, Boucherville, Que. (Contact: Marie-France Sosa, at 450-641-5926 or mfsosa@acipquebec.ca).
May 7-11: Brasilplast 2007, at Anhembi Park Exhibition Hall, São Paulo, Brazil. (Contact: Alcantara Machada company at 5511-3030-9463 or almax@almax.com.br.)
May 21-24: Chinaplas, at the Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Pazhou, Guangzhou, China. (Contact: Hong Kong 852-2811-8857 or chinaplas@adsale.com.hk).
May 22: CPIA's Canadian Natural Composites Council annual general meeting, at the Hall of Ideas EFG, Madison, Wis., during the Ninth International Conference on Wood & Natural Fiber-Plastics Composites (Contact: Marilyne Berman, 905-678-7405 Ext. 278, or mberman@cpia.ca)
May 24: Quebec plastics pioneers social hour and dinner, at the Whitlock Golf and Country Club in Hudson, Que. (Contact: Terry Browitt at 450-458-5591 or tjbrowitt@terinex.com)
June 5: Annual Shotgun Golf Tournament of the Canadian Tooling & Machining Association. At Pine Knot Golf & Country Club Dorchester, Ont. (Contact: Julie McFarlane at 519-653-7265 or info@ctma.com).
June 14: Canadian Plastics Pioneers, annual golf tournament and reunion dinner. At Richmond Hill Golf & Country Club, Richmond Hill, Ont. (Contact: Peter Stephen at 905-940-5577 or pstephen@stephensales.com).
October 24-31: K 2007, Germany's international plastics super-show, at Dusseldorf Trade Fairgrounds. (Contact: Stefan Egge at 416-598-1524 or messeduesseldorf@germanchamber.ca)
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