PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2011

NEWS 7 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 03/11 www.petpla.net Husky to acquire KTW Husky Injection Molding Systems has announced its intention to acquire closure mould maker KTW of Waidhofen, Austria. The sale is expected to complete in May 2011. The two companies have been working together for the past 14 years. From the completion of the acquisition, Husky will offer KTW-branded closure moulds as part of its fully-integrated turnkey systems, which include mould, machine, hot runner, temperature controller, and con- sulting and after-sales services. The current KTW leadership team, including Managing Directors Anja and Claus Ziegler, will continue to be involved in the business. KTW’s operations in Austria, the Czech Republic and Ger- many, will become Husky’s closure mould development and manufacturing centres. Husky plans to initiate a strategic review process of Injectoplast, KTW’s custom injection moulding division, in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest with Husky’s customers. www.husky.ca MachinePoint group launches MachinePoint Food Technologies MachinePoint Group has announced the launch of a new subsidiary company, MachinePoint Food Technologies. The new company is dedicated to offering complete turnkey projects and plant and process installation to processors in the agro food, beverage and dairy industries. The company intends to include the inte- gration of used machinery into new pro- jects in its offer. MachinePoint Food Tech- nologies´ sister company, Machine- Point Used Machinery, controls 80% of the used equipment currently for sale in Europe; and has extensive logistics and engineering experience in transporting and integrat- ing used equipment into new plant layouts. Machine Point Food Tech- nologies has been created by a partnership between Machine Point Group and Gemina, a highly special- ised process integrator that manufactures customised equipment for the agro food, beverage and dairy indus- tries. Gemina is located in Murcia, southern Spain. It has been designing and building plants and process lines in its domestic markets and in Africa and Asia for liquid processing industries for 25 years. MachinePoint Food Technologies’ engineer- ing centre, in Murcia, has more than 5000m 2 of space for engineering, automa- tion, manufacturing, finish- ing, assembling, testing and quality control of equipment to be installed at customers’ facilities. www.machinepoint.com