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 10.03.2022

C-P Flexible Packaging Announces Acquisition of Bass Flexible Packaging

Located in Lakeville, MN, Bass produces a variety of stand-up pouches, premade bags and shrink sleeves

News 08.03.2022

New Illig RDF 85 System Live at Chinaplas

Other highlights include the high-performance BlueLine thermoforming system IC-RDM 76Kb with end-of-line handling system, and the compact packaging system HSU 35b

News 08.03.2022

Coperion K-Tron Offers All-New Feeder Line

The ProRate PLUS continuous gravimetric feeders are ideal for the feeding of pellets, granules and other free-flowing bulk materials in secondary plastics applications

News 04.03.2022

Herbold washing plant gets to the heart of PP hard plastics

Herbold Meckesheim has developed a new washing plant for shredding and cleaning hard PP plastics, which is used very successfully to produce re-granulates

News 04.03.2022

Prime Polymer: Japan’s First Commercial Production of Biomass PP

Derived from bio-based hydrocarbons, this PP is certified as bio-based using the mass balance method

News 02.03.2022

Davis-Standard has named a new CEO

The new CEO, Giovanni Spitale, replaces Jim Murphy who has been elected as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

News 01.03.2022

The Compound Company acquires Exxelor™ polymers from Esso Deutschland GmbH

Exxelor™ polymer resins are chemically modified polyolefin and elastomers based resins used to enhance the performance of engineering thermoplastics and other polymers

News 01.03.2022

Avient Launches Long Fiber Composites Based on Recycled Nylon

It has been a challenge to source streams of recycled resins that are compatible with the pultrusion process used to manufacture long fiber composites

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MultiCycle project delivers recyclates for flexible plastics applications

The recyclates are used back into high-end applications in flexible multilayer films and fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites

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Better Recycling with Beier

BEIER has an extensive experience in providing machinery and engineering for plastic recycling, including the processes of crushing-grinding, washing, separating, drying and pelletizing

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Innovia opened shrink sleeve film line in Poland

The state-of-the-art line will be dedicated to manufacture low-density polyolefin shrink film for shrink sleeve labels and tamper evident applications