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Agricultural wrap stretch film from Granitol a. s.
- 01.04.2013
- Plastics packaging
Agricultural stretch film (also Agrostretch film) is intended for the preservation of grass. Slightly wilted grass is compressed into bales, wrapped in mesh and pulled into the stretch...
Be your own designer apartment on fatrafloor.cz
- 29.03.2013
- Plastics and Rubber products
It is easy to imagine how it will look in the raised floor has furnished rooms. When selecting a pattern, it is necessary not only to think of the appropriate alignment pattern floor apartment with other equipment, but also to reconcile with colorful walls and...
A new addition to the product line KVT - FASTEKS � + - Optimum bolted joints for thermoplastics
- 27.03.2013
- Plastics Processing
Screw FASTEKS KST � + PLUS represents a perfect bolt joint for thermoplastic materials. Ingeniously designed point angle of 30 � reduced compared with screws angle greater radial extension. The resulting large axial force then provides uniform dissolution printed...
Ecoplast from Slovakia
- 25.03.2013
- Plastics packaging
Slovak science made a dent in the universe. The Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Polymer Materials of Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava created a formula � the production technology and processing of a new...
Try composting Puruplast!
- 20.03.2013
- Plastics and Rubber products
Composting of durable and maintenance-free material is a useful tool that makes it worry you can get rid of waste from the kitchen and garden. Composting of residues of vegetables, fruits and other natural waste creates full-quality humus, which can be used for fertilizing trees, flowers and other...
Fair FOR INDUSTRY show the newest 3D printers
- 18.03.2013
- Services
Prototypes of products, manufacture of dental prostheses and implants, architectural models, as well. future space base on the moon, all these applications can be applied in engineering technology, 3D printers. It is this dynamically developing region is one of the innovative themes Fair FOR...
Kia Motors Slovakia supports education in the �ilina region
- 15.03.2013
- Services
Vice President of Administration unit of Kia Motors Slovakia, Kyo-Man Song on Tuesday, 26.02.2013 at the premises of the Learning Center at the ceremony Gbelany representative secondary vocational schools in Slovakia and the University of �ilina 6 cars and a diagnostic device for educational...
Interactive Conference of Young Scientists 2013, again in collaboration with BASF
- 13.03.2013
- Suppliers of raw materials
Civic Association holds converts on 4th 4th - 5 5th 2013 in order V. Interactive annual Conference of Young Scientists. A unique and innovative way organized conference focusing on selected areas of natural, medical and chemical sciences is open to young scientists, PhD. students and...
VIDEO BOOKLET from EQUICom
- 11.03.2013
- Services
EQUICom offers the Czech and Slovak markets multimedia news, videos BOOKLET. This is a brand new modern concept presentation of products or...
MIKRON HEM 500U - new model 5-axis milling center Swiss company GF AgieCharmilles
- 08.03.2013
- Machinery & Equipment
The new 5-axis CNC milling center of GF AgieCharmilles is designed for standard machining tasks in 3D space, from the production of simple to complex shaped parts that are use in the aerospace industry, defense technology, medicine ... "flexible, cost effective and functional CNC milling machine...
Nitra Engineering Fair 2013 - a stable base for successful professional communication
- 06.03.2013
- Services
The jubilee Nitra International Engineering Fair, which will take place at the Agrokomplex exhibition ground on May 21 - 24, 2013 is one of the key events in this field not only in Slovakia but also in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It meets the internationality criterion as defined...

Kia Motors Slovakia achieved in 2012 sales of EUR 3.919 billion
- 01.03.2013
- Plastics and Rubber products
Kia Motors Slovakia (Kia) produced last year a record 292,050 vehicles and achieve 15-percent annual increase in...
TECASINT 4000 from the company Ensinger: thermal and dimensional stability up to 470 � C
- 27.02.2013
- Plastics Semi-finished products
Polyimides (PI) TECASINT offers good long-term thermal stability and strength. Ensinger company now introduces a new range of semi-Series 4000th This group of polyimides is particularly suitable for applications with high requirements on the oxidation stability of the...
KOH-I-NOOR PONAS opens in Poli�ka injection molding plant for 100 mil. CZK
- 25.02.2013
- Plastics Moulds
The new plant will be equipped with the latest technology for injection molding and assembly of complex technical systems for the automotive...
Kia Motors Slovakia Slovakia began to produce a new model Kia pro_cee'd
- 18.02.2013
- Plastics and Rubber products
Kia Motors Slovakia on Friday launched serial production pro_cee'd three-door model, which was first officially unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in September last...
Who saves the three - with lubricants Interflon can save even more
- 15.02.2013
- Machinery & Equipment
Intense pressure on finding savings today evade any industry. The same applies to the plastics industry. The security operation of production facilities are regularly spent a considerable amount. Maintenance has established a financial budget and find a way to reduce it is increasingly difficult -...
Our scientists will have a patent on the production of bioplastics and biof�lie
- 13.02.2013
- Plastics packaging
Packaging for eggs, bags or shopping bags for packing of any goods - everything can be made from bioplastics and biof�lie. The unique technology of bioplastics, which the authors are scientists and FCHPT STU line, just waiting for the grant of the patent...
MANIFESTO for successful Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging
- 11.02.2013
- Plastics packaging
Brussels, 18 January 2013 - Eleven European producer responsibility schemes for packaging waste issued a joint statement to the success of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, especially with a focus on household...
Tablet is just a toy? A new generation of support mills and tools... Part 2
- 08.02.2013
- Plastics Moulds
Continued article dated 14/12/2012. The fundamental issue tracking tools can simplify the struggle between project managers and the executives. While managers would like as much information as close to real-time executives are time busy actual production or overwriting of information in the system...
New software update for the analysis of injection molding Cadmould � 3D-F: even faster, even easier to work with design
- 06.02.2013
- Plastics Moulds
Cadmould � 3D-F is a simulation software for analysis of plastic injection molding, whose calculations are based on special, to describe the behavior of macromolecular substances developed and subsequently patented 3D...
Konica Minolta CM-2500c - Spectrophotometer with geometry 45/0 �
- 01.02.2013
- Machinery & Equipment
- Quality control
CM-2500c is a portable spectrophotometer, which fits comfortably in the hand. It was designed for practical and simple color measurement of small objects, irregular surfaces as well as coarse, granular or textured surfaces. Its most common use is in the automotive industry in the control of color...

Sub-sequences: SELOGICA function simplifies mould handling
- 30.01.2013
- Plastics Moulds
- Automation
- Design of molds
Anyone who uses complex and often expensive moulds wants to be able to handle these in the simplest an safest way possible. For this purpose, the "Subsequences" function of the SELOGICA control system offers a practical solution which gives machine operators the certainty of doing nothing wrong....
Unipetrol recorded 10% increase of revenues at CZK 107bn in 2012
- 28.01.2013
- Suppliers of raw materials
In 2012 Unipetrol Group results were influenced mainly by one-off impairments of fixed assets of the refinery segment, booked in the amount of CZK - 4.386bn. Company posted an operational result (EBIT) of CZK -4.014bn, with revenues of CZK 107.281bn in 2012. During the last year company recorded...
Unipetrol waiting for 4Q operating loss of 4.5 billion.
- 23.01.2013
- Suppliers of raw materials
Board of Unipetrol petrochemical company estimates that the company will be in the fourth quarter of 2012, probably operating loss (EBIT) of around 4.5 billion. And in relation to the charging of impairment losses on fixed assets refining...
Looking back at plastics in 2012
- 21.01.2013
- Plastics Processing
European Plastics News takes a month-by-month look at some of the major stories over the past 12 months. The European industry remains in a state of flux, but as our reports over the year have shown, the industry is still battling on and strengthening its business through acquisitions and...
Spring Technology Fair will be held in April 2013
- 18.01.2013
- Services
12th th International Trade Fair of Engineering Technologies FOR INDUSTRY, 7 annual exhibition finishes and Finishing Technologies FOR SURFACE and 1 annual technology fair for welding, soldering and bonding FOR WELD will be held at PVA EXPO PRAGUE in time from 23 to 25 April 2013. A new exhibition...
Kia produced in Slovakia in 2012, a record number of cars and engines
- 14.01.2013
- Plastics and Rubber products
In 2012, manufactured by Kia Motors (Kia), 292,000 cars and 464,000 engines assembled. Plant in a three-shift operation reached a record production with the launch of series production of the new Kia cee'd models and...
Energy-optimized cooling system from ONI-W�rmetrafo ppa. Kubou�ek, Ltd.
- 11.01.2013
- Machinery & Equipment
A major world producer of blown plastic tanks (PFT), the Chinese company YAPP Automotive Parts Co.. Ltd., Began early in 2010 to preparing production facilities and technology in the Czech Republic. YAPP company, which is currently the largest producer of PFT in China, but also owns factories in...
Schoeller Arca Systems (SAS) and LINPAC Allibert unite under one name - Schoeller Allibert
- 09.01.2013
- Plastics packaging
Changing the name of the company was born, a world leader in reusable plastic packaging...
Konica Minolta Spectrophotometer CM-5 from Anamet Ltd.
- 07.01.2013
- Machinery & Equipment
- Quality control
Brand new spectrophotometer with comfortable upper sensing contains a very wide range of applications. Spektorfotometr CM - 5 has been developed for a wide range of applications, particularly suitable for a color measurement in the food, chemical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical...