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)

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: 
FMTI - Association of Metaltechnology Industries Austria

France: 
AMICS (Member of FIM - French Mechanical Industries Federation)

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