United Kingdom: Food-grade HDPE recycling champion

Every HDPE milk or juice bottle that has been produced in any ALPLA plant in the United Kingdom must consist of at least 30 per cent rHDPE

News 06.04.2020

Unipetrol completes major investment in new PE unit

The Czech company has completed and officially commissioned the principal part of the construction of the new polyethylene unit (PE3)

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29.06.2020

Extrusion International USA 3-2020

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News 14.04.2020

UPM Raflatac and Sabic first to bring PPR label material to market

Now available globally, this label material uses SABIC’s groundbreaking TRUCIRCLE™ solutions for certified circular PP products

News 13.04.2020

Top management change by extrusion blow molder Kautex

As of March 1, 2020, Dhanny Mulyanto joins the change team at Kautex as the new Head of Global Supply Chain Management. Since April 2020, Julia Keller is the company's CFO

News 13.04.2020

Macro Engineering signed a representation agreement with Kliše-Kop

Kliše-Kop enjoy an excellent reputation in the region, which in addition to Croatia includes Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo

News 09.04.2020

Oerlikon Nonwoven large-scale meltblown sold to Asia

The recently-signed contract comprises a 2-beam system for manufacturing filtration nonwovens with a nominal capacity of up to 1,200 tons of nonwovens a year

News 08.04.2020

MSC Software to drive innovation with new CTO, Bruce Engelmann

In this role, Engelmann will lead research and development and be responsible for technology leadership and solutions development across the complete MSC design and engineering product line

News 08.04.2020

Dri-Air: SmartTouch controls with Industry 4.0 communications

The new control gathers data from the dryer and shares it with various pieces of equipment

News 07.04.2020

Berry to invest in meltblown capacity for face masks production in the EMEIA Region

This investment is targeted to meet increased demand and will be focused on premium applications, such as FFP2 (N95) and FFP3 (N99) for face mask

News 06.04.2020

Kuteno is postponed

The organizers of Kuteno trade fair made an announcement about new dates for the plastics industry show

Articles

EPS-SURE, the polystyrene recycling project concludes with success

The project with participation of COEXPAN focuses on a system for the collection, pre-treatment, and recycling of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) waste for its subsequent use in new PS food packaging

Articles

Surface treatment for the plastics extrusion market

Vetaphone’s specialist explains the need for the process and how technology is responding to changes in market demand

Case studies

Сase studies

Weima: A second life for lifesavers

With two WEIMA WLK 15 Jumbo single-shaft shredders, Inoplast Kunststoff GmbH will in the future be able to shred even the most technically demanding raw material for the recycling process