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 12.11.2020

Polifilm extends its range of machine stretch films by a recycled version

New POLIFLEXX reNATE is the polyethylene machine stretch film with 30% post-consumer-recyclate

News 10.11.2020

ELIX Polymers certified with ISCC PLUS for production of circular ABS

ELIX is already in contact with OEMs and converters that showed high interest in new materials

News 10.11.2020

New CEO at ALPLA Group

Philipp Lehner will succeed Günther Lehner as CEO on 1 January 2021, making him the third generation of the family to run the company

News 10.11.2020

Plast Eurasia to be held in December 2021

The exhibition will be held by TUYAP in cooperation with PAGEV on December 1 – 4, 2021 in Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul

News 10.11.2020

APK enables the use of plastic recyclates in cosmetic packaging

Toxicological evaluations confirm quality of company′s Newcycling® LDPE recyclate

News 06.11.2020

Nova Chemicals to sell its expandable styrenics business to Alpek

NOVA plans to focus on its olefin and polyethylene business, which includes additional investments to advance a global circular economy for plastic

News 06.11.2020

Mars, with Sabic and Huhtamaki introduce recycled content into pet food packaging

This important step helps accelerate Mars’ progress towards achieving 30% recycled content and 25% less virgin plastic by 2025

News 05.11.2020

Innovia Films joins new consortium CELAB

CELAB - Circular Economy for Labels - is an industry initiative, founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry to create greater circularity for its products

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

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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

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Powerfil - Erema Laserfilter

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

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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