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

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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 11.11.2023

Asahi Kasei to expand coating capacity for battery separators

New coating lines will be installed at existing Asahi Kasei LIB separator facilities in the United States, Japan, and South Korea

News 10.11.2023

Tomra presents the new flake sorting solution

The enhanced features of the new INNOSORT™ FLAKE enable simultaneous flake sorting by polymer, color and transparency achieving unmatched quality even from highly contaminated inputs

News 10.11.2023

HB-Therm unveils extension to Thermo-6 temperature control range

The latest models of the Thermo-6 size 62 are available in variants that enable main-line temperatures of 100, 140 and 160 °C

News 09.11.2023

To identify the filament directly in the plastic

In cooperation with Tailorlux, GRAFE launches a masterbatch for the identification of materials in industrial 3D printing

News 09.11.2023

Avient and Coloro: Collaboration for Sustainable Fiber Colorants

The colorant is in the form of concentrate pellets added to the polymer pellets during the extrusion and melting process

News 09.11.2023

Berry: Uniting its High-Performance Lamination Films

Berry Global is uniting its global range of high-performance PE lamination films under its Entour™ film brand, bringing together the company's wider portfolio

News 06.11.2023

A new leak tester for nonporous pharmaceutical containers

SpeedAir 3050 from Pfeiffer Vacuum is based on the mass extraction approach and offers a CCIT solution for a wide range of products, whether they are flexible or rigid, liquid or solid

News 06.11.2023

Ampacet Launches Medical-grade Antimicrobial Masterbatch

ProVital™ + GermsClean is an additive developed to protect plastic components in healthcare facilities against the proliferation of microrganisms

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

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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

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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

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Powerfil - Erema Laserfilter

With POWERFIL you can count on high-performance filters that can best master challenging filtration tasks

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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