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Ancillaries - Business News

- 11 October 2007 -
Zeppelin concludes UK acquisition
Zeppelin Silos & Systems GmbH has acquired Chronos Richardson’s Materials Processing Systems division.

- 24 September 2007 -
US and Austrian companies strike pelletizer deal
Reduction Engineering is to market and service the Econ line of underwater pelletizers in the Americas.

- 23 August 2007 -
Maguire forms Canadian company
Maguire Canada includes laboratory for materials testing.

- 21 June 2007 -
Wittmann buys blender range
Wittmann Canada has acquired the M-Tek blending and materials handling line.

- 18 June 2007 -
Coperion Group bought out
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG becomes new owner.

- 3 May 2007 -
Cofit International opens US office
Cofit America LLC to provide technical sales and support.

- 14 February 2007 -
K-Tron uses acquisition to establish Chinese subsidiary
Purchase will cost $3.5 million over five years.

- 7 February 2007 -
Novatec Inc signs licensing agreement for IRD dryer
Novatec to be only US builder of new type of dryer/crystallizer.

- 19 October 2007 -
K-Tron completes Premier acquisition
K-Tron International Inc, worldwide designer and producer of materials handling equipment and systems, has acquired Premier Pneumatics Inc. Novatec to be only US builder of new type of dryer/crystallizer.

- 21 September 2007 -
Q-Lab starts major expansion
Q-Lab Corporation has started construction on an expansion of its headquarters and manufacturing facility in the USA.

- 14 September 2006 -
Machinery manufacturers see growth in Western Europe
EUROMAP says growth in Western Europe has fuelled strong performance from European machinery manufacturers.

- 31 August 2006 -
New strand pelletizer is easier to deploy and operate
Reduction Enginerering Inc. claims new strand pelletizer makes setting up strand input simpler and faster.

- 17 August 2006 -
Production gains result from kneader retrofits
Buss has introduced a new way in which customers can upgrade their existing MKS-Series Kneaders to newer quantec technology.

- 6 July 2006 -
Agreement promotes new technology for viscosity reduction
Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer has concluded a cooperation agreement with Stratek regarding the development and marketing of a completely new technology for the treatment of polymer melts.

- 29 June 2006 -
Novatec plans drying technology centre
Novatec Inc. is constructing what it claims is the plastics industry’s first facility for rigorously testing and demonstrating the performance of drying systems.

- 25 May 2006 -
Conair sells pelletizer product line
Conair has sold to its line of strand and waterslide pelletizers to Reduction Engineering, Inc., Kent, Ohio, USA.

- 11 May 2006 -
Fabrel Lotos and the Buss management acquire Buss
After acquisition by Fabrel Lotos Zurich and the Buss management, Buss AG Pratteln (Switzerland) is once again an independent manufacturer of compounding and processing plants.

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