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Auxiliary equipment maker Matsui relocates
HANOVER PARK, ILL. (July 3, 9:50 a.m. EDT) -- Matsui America Inc. has moved from Elk Grove Village, Ill. — the auxiliary equipment supplier’s home city for more than 20 years — to a new headquarters in nearby Hanover Park.

Progressive Systems relocates HQ plant
MINNEAPOLIS (June 27, 5:20 p.m. EDT) -- Machinery manufacturer Progressive Systems Inc. is relocating its headquarters from Minneapolis to nearby suburb Anoka, Minn.

Auto molders may find lifeline in medical
YORK, PA. (June 27, 3:55 p.m. EDT) -- As the auto market in North America continues to struggle due to the economic slowdown, foreign competition and gas price hikes, injection molders that supply the industry are losing margin. The solution for them may be switch to the medical-molding business, a high-margin, economic-downturn-insulated and outsourcing-resistant sector.

Engel targets N. American niche with e-max
YORK, PA. (June 27, 3:50 p.m. EDT) -- Out of the 3,000 injection molding machines annually sold in North America, 44 percent are all-electric presses under 200 tons — a sizable niche market that Engel Machinery Inc. is now fully poised to tackle with the introduction of its e-max all-electric injection presses.

Milacron moving HQ outside Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (June 13, 2:10 p.m. EDT) -- Equipment maker Milacron Inc. is moving its headquarters out of Cincinnati to office space at its main production facility near Batavia.

Court rejects MHT bid to appeal in Husky case
HOCHHEIM, GERMANY (June 11, 2:50 p.m. EDT) -- Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG cannot appeal the $11 million judgment levied against it in 2006, when a court ruled that MHT officials stole secret Husky computer-aided-design files to create 48-cavity PET preform molds.

Heartland expands technology
MANSFIELD, TEXAS (June 6, 2:20 p.m. EDT) -- Extrusion blow mold maker Heartland Mold & Tool Inc. recently added a three-dimensional laser-scanning system to boost its reverse-engineering and product-development capability.

Wittmann plans to double sales
KOTTINGBRUNN, GERMANY (June 6, 2:11 p.m. EDT) -- Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH has ambitious plans to double its injection molding machinery business within the next three years. Managing director Georg Tinschert announced the plan on June 4, at the first open house for the Kottingbrunn-based company since its April 1 purchase by auxiliary equipment company Wittmann Kunststoffgeräte GmbH.

China´s Haitian to locate center in Vietnam
SINGAPORE (June 3, 1:05 p.m. EDT) -- Chinese injection press maker Ningbo Haitian Group Ltd. said it will open a sales and support center in Vietnam to boost sales in Southeast Asia. The center is one of six the firm plans around the world.

Gloucester ships massive machine to Peru
GLOUCESTER, MASS. (June 2, 10:10 a.m. EDT) -- It was a lot of work for Gloucester Engineering Co. Inc. just building a huge blown film line with a die diameter of 86 inches. Then the company had to move it from coastal Massachusetts all the way to Lima, Peru.

Hi-Tech Engineering moves to larger HQ
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (June 2, 9:55 a.m. EDT) -- Hi-Tech Engineering Inc., a reaction injection molding equipment maker, will more than double its manufacturing space by moving into a 50,000-square-foot headquarters factory in Grand Rapids.

DMS brings work back to Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (June 2, 9:35 a.m. EDT) -- CNC router maker Diversified Machine Systems Inc. has come back to its birthplace of Colorado Springs and is continuing to expand.

Viscotec opens 1st US plant in California
TULARE, CALIF. (May 28, 12 p.m. EDT) -- The $1 million agricultural film recycling plant of Viscotec-U.S. Inc. in Tulare shifted into full production earlier this month after a series of delays that pushed back its expected launch by nearly 15 months. “We are at full speed and full capacity,” said plant manager Ron Olivares.

Native Liberian invests in plant, equipment
GUANGZHOU, CHINA (May 28, 11:25 a.m. EDT) -- Environmental consulting in Maryland may seem a long way removed from China and from film extrusion, bottle blow molding and plastics recycling in the western African nation of Liberia. Not for Joseph E. Williamson.

Molder Polymar automates foam tape process
LEOLA, PA. (May 22, 4:25 p.m. EDT) -- Polymar recently added custom robotic machinery to automate its process to apply acrylic foam tape to attach injection molded parts onto automotive glass for use of Tier-2 automotive suppliers.

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