Welcome to the Plastics and Rubber Buyers Guide
in which the most important European plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers and technology providers can be found through a search engine. Company entries are on voluntary basis and checked within the national Member Associations participating. Please contact them directly for any question, further details or more detailed search possibilities. This Plastics and Rubber Buyers Guide contains the references of machinery manufacturers of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
Search methods
Different search methods are available:
- by company name (both by scrolling an alphabetical list and by entering a free text) by type of processing machine (through a "structured search", i.e. a guided selection through further steps of the classified nomenclature or by selecting a certain machine from the classified nomenclature or by free text)
- by free text (thus entering any word).
Main items covered
Machines and equipment for preprocessing, recycling
crushers, blade granulators, shredders, pulverizers, mixers, two roll mills, separating and sorting equipment, silos, conveyors and accessories
Machinery and plant for processing
calenders, dipping plants, extruders, extrusion lines, injection moulding machines, presses, blow moulding machines, foaming machinery for EPS, EPP, EPE, reaction moulding machines and plant (RIM), mould carriers, filament winding machines for pipes and hollow articles, rotational moulding machines
Follow-on equipment
film stretching machines, bi-directional cutting units, gear pumps, calibration tables, vacuum spray units, die changes, granulators, pelletizers, haul-offs, stretching units for filaments, strappings, winding machines, screen changers, melt filters
Post processing machines
thermforming machines, cutting and splitting machines, punching machines, embossing machines, deflashing machines
Welding machines
hot-plate welders, heat impulse welders, high-frequently welders, ultrasonic welders, hot-gas welders, friction welders, extrusion welders, laser beam welding machines
Machinery for finishing, decorating, printing and marking
printing machines, coating plant, laminating plant, spraying plant, metallizing plant, printing-pretreatment equipment
Other machines and equipment
laboratory machinery, quick mould changing systems, magnetic clamping systems, handling devices, robots, cleanroom engineering, heating and cooling units, equipment for testing, quality assurance, measuring and control systems.
Participants
Austria:
FMS - Association of Austrian Machinery and Steel Construction Industries
France:
SYMACAP - French Union of Plastic and Rubber Equipments Manufacturers
Germany:
VDMA - The German Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association
Italy:
AMAPLAST - The Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery/Moulds manufacturers' Association
Spain:
IMAPC - The Spanish Plastics and Rubber Machinery Manufacturers Association
Switzerland:
SWISSMEM - Swiss Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Industries' Association
Turkey:
PAGDER - Turkish Plastics Industry Association
United Kingdom:
BPF - The British Plastics Federation