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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Improving tolerances by 30% and achieving faster startups with EDI® Automatic Die from Nordson

Nordson's Autoflex™ VI-RE die yields more uniform film, enhancing the printing and heat shrinking processes used for labels in packaging

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News 22.09.2021

Low Adhesive Build-Up TPE for Protective Film Tack Layer

Avient‘s new optimized Versaflex™ CF6668 low build-up TPE prevents adhesive residue build-up for films used in high-end appliance, household furniture, building and construction

News 21.09.2021

Spartech Acquires Georgia-based Crawford Industries

Crawford has more than 50 years of experience in manufacturing extruded polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) sheets and converting them into environmentally friendly products

News 17.09.2021

Arlin Mfg. Intends to Purchase Toray Film Plant

The Old Baptist Road (OBR) facility will complement Arlin’s Trico Specialty Films division and expand its capabilities

News 17.09.2021

Berry Global to Expand its North American Packaging Capacity

This more than $110 million investment will expand its proprietary polypropylene thermoforming capabilities to manufacture clear drink cups and lids

News 16.09.2021

OCS presents innovative and customer-specific solutions

OCS GmbH will present itself with expert solutions for quality control and assurance at this year's Polymer Testing and Compounding World Expo in Essen, Germany, from 29 to 30 September 2021

News 16.09.2021

Entek Introduces the HT72 Twin-Screw Extruder

The HT72 Is the first in what will be a new series of twin-screw extruders from ENTEK

News 14.09.2021

Oben Group acquire Poligal

This acquisition includes the BOPP and CPP production plants in Portugal and Poland, commercial offices in Germany and an extensive sales and distribution network throughout Europe

News 10.09.2021

World's first bread packaging based on recycled plastic

Allied Bakeries, a UK based supplier of bakery products, has introduced bread bags made by St. Johns Packaging using SABIC’s circular PE in the packaging of their Kingsmill No Crusts 50/50

Articles

Color measurement system for optimizing the plastics recycling

A research project to develop a camera-based measuring system for optimized colour formulation in plastics recycling was successfully completed at the SKZ Plastics Centre in Würzburg, Germany

Articles

Sustainable and closed loop solutions of flame retarded plastics

The hffr-Up2Cycle project, lead by the German Fraunhofer Institute LBF, aims to increase the sustainability of plastic materials formulated with flame retardeds

Case studies

Сase studies

A clear commitment to film production in Europe

Plastchim-T, a Bulgarian manufacturer of biaxially oriented polypropylene films, orders a new Brückner 8.7m wide 5-layer BOPP film line

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Cost savings with ultrasonic measuring system from Zumbach

SWM International, based in Richland, Philadelphia, USA, achieved $40,000 cost savings in 1 Year using UMAC® ultrasonic measuring system from Zumbach Electronic

Videos

Powerfil - Erema Laserfilter

With POWERFIL you can count on high-performance filters that can best master challenging filtration tasks

Videos

Why Brabender extruder liners are openable

Simon Hill (Area Sales Manager Western Europe) shows the advantages of the clamshell design of Brabender's twin-screw extruders