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 09.01.2020

Innovative hygiene products with Kraiburg TPE compounds

The THERMOLAST® K and THERMOLAST® M series compounds are especially suited to meet the needs of the market in the production of hygiene goods

News 09.01.2020

Ineos Styrolution invests in ABS plant in China

ABS capacity planned to be 600,000 tonnes per year; construction is expected to start this year, completion planned for 2023

News 08.01.2020

Nissan shows new noise-reducing material from plastic film

The new material is a combination of a lattice structure and plastic film for controlling air vibrations to limit the transmission of wide frequency band noise

News 08.01.2020

New Conair ResinWorks™ central drying system

The new system gives users the option to equip each drying hopper with its own 4-inch color touchscreen HMI, enabling independent operation, data monitoring, and other advanced control features

News 06.01.2020

Trioplast to acquire Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging

Dutch-based AFP is a leading producer and supplier of premium load stability film (LSF) and food packaging film (FPF)

News 06.01.2020

Arkema to increase Kynar® fluoropolymer capacities at its plant in China

The increase in capacity by approximately 50 percent is scheduled to come on stream in the final quarter of 2020

News 03.01.2020

Highly efficient recycling of film production waste

The new INTAREMA® ZeroWastePro from Erema is specially designed for PE and PP films, which are processed either in inline or offline

News 02.01.2020

A green alternative to the regular PVC and polyethylene rolls

Bandera equipped a European food-packaging company with a 3-layer co-extrusion machinery for the production of compostable “cling” film

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