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 17.04.2023

Plaskolite buys sheet manufacturing facility from Trinseo

The facility offers a full suite of acrylic sheet technologies – extruded, continuous cast and cell cast

News 17.04.2023

VTT pilot scales up production of sustainable cellulose film

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland invested €1.5 million into their CelluloseFilms pilot facility with the goal to replace the plastic film used in most modern food packaging

News 17.04.2023

Teknor Apex Acquires PVC Compoundeur Nu-Pro Polymers

Nu-Pro specializes in clear, natural and black reprocessed compounds in a range of durometers

News 13.04.2023

Increased PET Recycling With a New Sorting Equipment

Placon has been awarded a grant to catalyze their investment in new front-end sorting equipment, which will enable them to capture around 10% more PET from incoming Material Recovery Facility bale

News 13.04.2023

SIG opens second packaging plant in India

The new production plant houses production assets used to manufacture components and finished packaging, including blown film extruders, bag-in-box manufacturing machines and much more

News 08.04.2023

Avient: New Color Services for Textiles Available in Turkey

The company is expanding its fiber color library and laboratory spinning capabilities at its location in Gaziantep, Turkey

News 06.04.2023

Visual Enhancements for PET

The new SeaGlass™ Collection from global masterbatch producer Ampacet captures the look and feel of the naturally weathered shards of discarded glass polished by the ocean

News 05.04.2023

CSD/CSDX: Rotary screw compressors from Caesar

Rotary screw compressors are the dependable backbone of an industrial compressed air supply

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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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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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