Effective 1 January 2025, Yves Ottiger is assuming operational leadership of the Robatech Group as its new CEO. He succeeds Martin Meier, who has led the company since 2018 and is going to continue to serve the Robatech Group in an advisory role. Yves Ottiger brings extensive experience in strategic business management, product and market […]
Read more »From 11 – 13 March 2025, the international converting industry will meet in Munich for the 14th edition of ICE Europe, the world’s leading marketplace to source bespoke converting solutions for flexible and web-based materials. For an initial preview of the event, we sat down for an interview with Patrick Herman, Event Director for Converting, […]
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New Era Converting Machinery has hired Jay W. Roth (left on the picture) as senior sales and development engineer and has promoted Ed Schwartz (right on the picture) to technical service manager. With nearly 30 years of industry experience, Roth combines sales and leadership know-how with an engineering perspective. In his new role, he aims […]
Afera, the European Adhesive Tape Association, has released a new guidance document on “Sustainable use of Adhesive Tapes” as part of the work undertaken by the Advocacy Workstream of Afera’s Flagship Sustainability Project (AFSP). The purpose of this guidance document is to provide information to end users about the various types of pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes […]
European Bioplastics presented its 2024 edition of the market development update during the EBC24 Conference taking place in Berlin, Germany. The report confirms the continuous growth of the global production capacities of bioplastics. Overall global plastics production continues to rise steadily. This development is driven by rising demand combined with the emergence of ever more […]
Flexible robot systems, innovative technologies and the typically warm KOCH flair – that was the KOCH Demonstration Day on 3 December 2024. Customers had the opportunity to gain a deep insight into the world of automation at KOCH. The event, which takes place regularly, was a great success once again. Under the motto ‘Automation in […]
Afera, the European Adhesive Tape Association, recently welcomed over 150 commodity and specialty tape professionals from 15 countries across Europe, Asia and the U.S. for critical networking and deep diving into the hottest tape business issues at its successful 67th Annual Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. This set a record for attendance of the premier yearly […]