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 29.01.2020

Speed record: Printing on cables at over 60 km/h

At the wire trade fair, Leibinger will be presenting a coding system that marks cables, wires, pipes and tubes at speeds of up to 1000 m/min or 60 km/h

News 28.01.2020

Hermann Ultraschall: US headquarters expansion near Chicago

The expansion should support the planned growth of the company in the new decade and create additional production space

News 28.01.2020

Complete co-extrusion line for PET sheet

Co-extrusion line for the production of PET sheet tested at Union headquarters in San Vittore Olona

News 28.01.2020

Nestlé creates market for food-grade recycled plastics

Nestlé announced that it will invest up to CHF 2 billion to lead the shift from virgin plastics to food-grade recycled plastics and to accelerate the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions

News 24.01.2020

Conagra announces sustainable packaging goal

Company aims to reduce overall use of plastic and make 100% of current plastic packaging renewable, recyclable or compostable by 2025

News 24.01.2020

Useon: successful start-up of a pelletizing line in Indonesia

The increased 70,000 tons/year will be accomplished by USEON SAT-X175 co-rotating twin screw extrusion compounding and granulation unit

News 24.01.2020

Berry to expand its North American film capacity

The investment will include added capacity for Berry’s proprietary Sof-Flex™ technology and the addition of the newest flexographic printing equipment

News 21.01.2020

Sanner introduces bio-based plastic packaging

Sanner BioBase®, to be presented at Pharmapack 2020, is the first biopackaging of its kind made of renewable raw materials

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