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 23.03.2020

Huntsman to acquire CVC Thermoset Specialties

CVC Thermoset Specialties, a part of Emerald Performance Materials LLC, is a North American specialty chemical manufacturer serving the industrial composites, adhesives and coatings markets

News 23.03.2020

Plastpol postponed to October

Plastpol, the International Fair of Plastics and Rubber Processing is held on a new date - from 6 to 9 October 2020

News 20.03.2020

Chemours inaugurates world-class innovation center in Delaware

The 312,000-square foot Chemours Discovery Hub on the University of Delaware's Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus houses more than 300 researchers and scientists

News 20.03.2020

Clariant and Floreon collaborate to expand high-performance-biopolymer applications

Broad range of Clariant additives allows bespoke property extension for specific industry / application needs

News 20.03.2020

LyondellBasell and Borato to form Chinese joint venture

LyondellBasell will market the polypropylene and high-density polyethylene; start-up is expected in the second half of 2020.

News 20.03.2020

Equiplast is postponed to December

The international plastics and rubber trade fair Equiplast will be held on 1-4 of December

News 17.03.2020

Nordson opens Pelletizing & Melt Delivery Laboratory in USA

Newest Laboratory for BKG® Systems is a resource for product demonstrations, trial runs, operator training, and pilot-scale process development

News 17.03.2020

interpack 2020 postponed

The leading international trade fair will now take place from 25 February to 3 March 2021

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