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

News 01.09.2020

Evonik invests in promising specialties from the C4 Verbund

The company is investing around €15 million in its C4 production network in Marl

News 01.09.2020

New date announced for Plastpol

This year's International Fair of Plastics and Rubber Processing is held from 6 to 8 October

News 01.09.2020

Arabplast 2021 postponed

The show has been postponed to 15th – 18th of November 2021

News 27.08.2020

Wacker's line of liquid silicone rubber and high consistency rubber to be distributed by H.M. Royal

The exclusive line of liquid silicone rubber (LSR) includes SILPURAN®, whereas high consistency rubber (HCR) is dedicated to medical applications

News 26.08.2020

New generation of bio-based protective films from Polifilm

New films are made of biological raw materials such as maize or sugar cane

News 26.08.2020

Sky Plastic becomes PreZero Polymers

PreZero’s unified brand identity highlights the Schwarz Group’s focus on a circular economy

News 26.08.2020

Avient develops new packaging additive technology

The new light blocking additive technology for PET dairy packaging helps customers’ packaging products to comply with new titanium dioxide (TiO2) restrictions in Europe

News 26.08.2020

ProAmpac launches MAKR, a virtual flexible-packaging configurator

MAKR allows users to remotely create custom three-dimensional package designs in both film and paper formats

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

Mexico's converter chooses Vetaphone

One of Mexico’s leading narrow web converters of labels and shrink sleeves, Promographic & Design, has fitted Vetaphone corona technology to its Nilpeter flexo and HP Indigo digital presses

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

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