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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30.04.2025

Extrusion 3-2025

News

News 07.05.2019

HF Group transfers its Extrusion Technology Business to Troester

Troester will maintain the Extrusion Business Units location in Hamburg and has taken over all Extrusion employees thus guaranteeing the continuity and product excellence

News 07.05.2019

PTi focuses on "Big Power, Small Footprint" at Plastics Extrusion World Expo

PTi will showcase its latest advances in sheet extrusion technologies—Super-G® HighSPEED™ and DTS™ Compounding extrusion systems

News 03.05.2019

Werner & Mertz to make shower gel bottles of 100 percent recycled HDPE

This is the first packaging with HDPE Post Consumer Recyclates (PCR) from the Yellow Bag for use in the cosmetics field

News 03.05.2019

Union: Another success in the field of rigid sheets

The Italian company has sold an extrusion line for the production of three-layers ABS and PMMA sheets, useful width 2400 mm and thickness from 1 to 12 mm

News 02.05.2019

Sealed Air to acquire Automated Packaging Systems

Seal Air has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Automated Packaging Systems, Inc. (APS), a leading manufacturer of high-reliability, automated bagging systems

News 30.04.2019

Next Generation Films and Charter NEX Films to сombine forces

The combined company will have 11 manufacturing plants and more than 100 extrusion lines in Ohio, Wisconsin, South Carolina and Massachusetts

News 30.04.2019

Braskem and Antilhas launch monomaterial packaging

The product reinforces the Circular Economy concept by facilitating recycling's cyclical process and the material's return to the chain

News 29.04.2019

Brabender and Melchers at Chinaplas 2019: Efficient quality control

Solutions to be presented comprise torque rheometers, measuring mixers and extruders as well as instruments for specific measuring tasks

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

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

Сase studies

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

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