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

Сase studies

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 29.07.2021

Laboratory & Quality Control in Plastics Processing

Online conference 2021

News 28.07.2021

Blast in German Chempark

More than 30 companies operate at the Chempark site in Leverkusen, including Covestro, Bayer, Lanxess and Arlanxeo

News 27.07.2021

PLAST returns in 2023

The upcoming edition of the fair will take place on Tuesday-Friday, 5-8 September 2023 at the Fiera Milano fairgrounds in Rho-Pero

News 20.07.2021

Aslan presents a film with holographic effect

Holographic ASLAN SE 72 is a silver self-adhesive PET-film, shimmering in the colours of the rainbow

News 20.07.2021

Polykar Breaks Ground on its New Manufacturing Facility in Edmonton

The construction of this facility is phase one of a $40 million investment to create a centre of excellence for the development of flexible and compostable packaging

News 16.07.2021

Improved ScrapSaver™ Fluff Feeder from Conair

A redesigned ScrapSaver™ fluff feeder makes high-volume film-scrap reclaim easy by feeding granulated film scrap (fluff) into a stream of virgin material and delivering the mix to an extruder for processing

News 14.07.2021

Direct Pack expands its manufacturing facility

The company has added 56,000 sq. ft. of space and flexible manufacturing lines in Rockingham, N.C., and increased its workforce by 50 percent since last fall

News 14.07.2021

gwk and Reisner merge under the name technotrans solution GmbH

Under the new name, a highly efficient competence centre for the plastics, rubber and metal processing industry will be established by the beginning of 2022

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

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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

Сase studies

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