Extrusion International 3-2025

10 Extrusion International 3/2025 INDUSTRY NEWS Barrier Laminates – The Expert Meeting 2025 On July 1 and 2, 2025, INNOFORM invites you to the renowned "Barri- er Laminates – The Expert Meeting" at the SKZ Model Factory in Würz - burg, Germany. The confe-rence focuses on mono-materials, innova- tive manufacturing processes, and barrier coatings for films and paper. Participants will gain valuable in- sights into key sustainability topics and the most important innovation drivers in the field of barrier films. Key topics • New Materials: Biopolymers and fiber-based alternatives such as pa - per for barrier films • Innovative Processes: Triple- bubble stretching, MDO stretching and simultaneous stretching for re- cyclable mono-materials with excel- lent barrier properties • Efficient Barrier Coatings: What do they offer and when is it worth switching to alternative materials such as bioplastics or paper? New is the AI-supported simulta- neous translation (German-English) – Audio & subtitles in the livestream for an international audience. Newly Designed, Informative Website Released Guill Tool & Engineering, West Warwick, Rhode Is - land (USA), world leader in extrusion tooling design and manufacturing, has unveiled a new website. This new site offers a detailed look at the company’s entire product line, which offers a wide-range of standard and custom designed extrusion tooling, including cross- heads, in-line heads, rotary heads and extrusion tips & dies. Highlight among the new products is the inline Spiderless Pipe Die, unique in the world market current - ly for its design efficiency and process performance on small to medium sized plastic pipe. The site includes a full listing of all products and speci- fications with calculation tools to compute annual cost of lengthy concentricity adjustments and crosshead re- placement analysis, plus calculators to compute draw- down, feet per minute and pounds per hour, making extrusion production scheduling and estimating far more accurate and efficient. The website also includes charts and tables with detailed data and a full library of downloadable literature organized by industry and tool type. Guill markets its equipment worldwide and is cur - rently seeking new representatives in select countries. The Guill website is mobile phone friendly and offers the convenience of allowing users to request a quote online. For more information: Tom Baldock, Extrusion Sales Manager Guill Tool & Engineering sales@guill.com, www.guill.com Plastics for Packaging Films 9. September 2025, Online This crash course aims at newcom- ers and those who are just starting in manufacturing, processing and in the packaging film industry (with a focus on food). You will gain a basic knowledge on film technology and related material science. The focus is on a sound foundation. Part A deals with the fundamentals of polymers used for plastics films. The focus is on making the link between poly- mer architecture (how polymers are built) and the real optical and me - chanical properties. For example, the degree of crystallinity provides information about the transparen- cy and density of a semi-crystalline plastic. In addition, simple chemi - cal facts about plastics are also ex- plained to beginners so that they can later understand many phe- nomena theoretically in practice. Innoform Coaching GbR www.innoform-coaching.de