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 06.07.2023

Alpla expands recycling plant in Poland

The company is investing around eight million euros in the third extrusion line at the site: thus, the annual production capacity will increase from 30,000 to 54,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET

News 02.07.2023

Nova and Plastic Energy Launch Feasibility Study on Advanced Recycling Plant

Facility would be constructed in the Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

News 02.07.2023

Ampacet Introduces AA Scavenger for PET and rPET Bottles

AA Scavenger 0846 is an additive designed to reduce the level of acetaldehyde in PET and rPET bottles and preserve the organoleptic properties of water

News 02.07.2023

Kimya is expanding its “Remake” range of recycled 3D filaments

The new Kimya ABS-R recycled material made from 100% post-consumer recycled material from selective collection

News 01.07.2023

Data Management Made Easy with Proteus® Search Engine

Proteus® Search Engine from Netzsch is a new tool to efficiently search for and quickly find your measurements and analysis states in the file system – both locally and in the network

News 01.07.2023

Avient and BASF collaborate to offer colored grades of Ultrason® high-performance polymers

The colored grades feature BASF’s Ultrason® polyarylethersulfones (PAES) as high-quality base polymer

News 29.06.2023

Norway's first dedicated sorting plant for plastic packaging will be created

TOMRA has signed an agreement with Plastretur with the aim to create a 50M EUR plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway

News 29.06.2023

Röhm to acquire Functional Forms from Sabic

Thus, Röhm is strengthening its leading position in transparent sheets, films and transportation

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