In-house barrier and adhesion measuring for film producers and converters

Bobst Manchester's Centre of Excellence for High Barrier for metallizing trials offers the companies to test their film using the latest measuring equipment

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United Kingdom: Food-grade HDPE recycling champion

Every HDPE milk or juice bottle that has been produced in any ALPLA plant in the United Kingdom must consist of at least 30 per cent rHDPE

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HDPE pipeline saves hundreds of flange connections

Due to time and cost savings, the main contractors in Singapore opted for the AGRULINE piping system entirely made of HDPE for safe waste water transport

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09.04.2020

Extrusion International USA 1-2020

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Auto Interiors Ltd. takes extrusion in-house with purchase of a new sheet die from Nordson

Technical Support from Nordson's EDI® Team was critical in helping Legendary Auto Interiors to produce sheet that is on-spec at required throughput

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Rani plast excels with seven-layer Davis-Standard line

In only two years since installing a Davis-Standard blown film line, Rani Plast of Finland is experiencing profitable outcomes for its agricultural film operation

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Blown film production boost with new die head from W&H

Comptoir National du Plastique (CNP) in Tunisia increases production of its blown film line by 20% with a retrofit from W&H

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BOBST K4000 with Hawkeye installed at IG Design Group UK Ltd

The BOBST K4000 is used as part of the Transfer Metallizing process developed by IG Design Group to manufacture gift wrap

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Minger counts on Sikora’s inspection and sorting system

Since 2018, the family owned company located in Appenzell/Switzerland has been using the PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED, an online inspection and sorting system from SIKORA

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PBS Plastics cuts downtime 71% with Dyna-Purge® D2

PBS Plastics began using Dyna-Purge® D2 engineered purging compound before removing the screw, thus cutting 10 hours off of the previous down time

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Line to produce HDPE rigid sheet from Union

New extrusion line for the production of HDPE rigid sheet line from 5 to 25mm thickness and 2.500mm width delivered to customer

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Welex Evolution® thin-gauge PET/PP sheet line for Pro Ex Extrusion

The dual-resin line features a J-stack configuration with roll-skewing and electric gap adjustment under full hydraulic load

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News 09.04.2020

Oerlikon Nonwoven large-scale meltblown sold to Asia

The recently-signed contract comprises a 2-beam system for manufacturing filtration nonwovens with a nominal capacity of up to 1,200 tons of nonwovens a year

News 08.04.2020

MSC Software to drive innovation with new CTO, Bruce Engelmann

In this role, Engelmann will lead research and development and be responsible for technology leadership and solutions development across the complete MSC design and engineering product line

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Balzanelli: Coiling in line and Coiling off line Solutions

Market demands and customized solutions have always been at the core of FB Balzanelli, largely recognized as a leader in the manufacturing of coiling machines