Alpla intends to use the Spanish company’s expertise in single-stage manufacturing technologies to expand its own product portfolio.

“Whenever China manufacturing sees a big decline in demand — as is happening right now — your risk of getting nothing or getting junk instead of what you ordered goes way up,” according to Dan Harris, founder of the Harris Bricken international law firm.

Demand for plastics remains fundamentally healthy, however, and the economic slowdown is transitory, stressed Perc Pineda, Chief Economist for the Plastics Industry Association.

Face-to-face messaging platform app allows remote installation and startup in April in Russia during the COVID-19 outbreak—GN Thermoforming system is now producing 240,000 meat trays a day.