Extrusion International 3-2025

19 Extrusion International 3/2025 New ASM Appointed Danish company Vetaphone, the inventors and pioneers of corona surface treatment technology, have announced the appointment of Bo Eriksen as Area Sales Manager for Europe and Africa. Educated and trained as an Elec- tronics Engineer, he was honoured by the Danish Engineering Union for outstanding achievement in his Jour- neyman Certification before serving in the Danish army in its Electronic Warfare Division. He joined Vetaphone in 2006 in a service capacity prior to moving on to system installations and after sales customer support, and now finally into sales. He commented: “I am excited to be of part of the Sales Team and believe my prod - uct knowledge and technical back- ground from many years in the field supporting customers will assist our sales force on its continued path of success.” SpeakingforVetaphone,CSOKevin McKell commented: “Bo has been a valuable member of the Vetaphone team for many years and I am de- lighted that he is now bringing his talents to Sales. His extensive techni - cal knowledge will be of great bene- fit to the Vetaphone users in his area and I’m expecting great things!” Vetaphone will continue to be represented by Dirk den Haese in Benelux, Ahmed Türkmen in DACH, and Giuseppe Rossi in Italy. Vetaphone A/S www.vetaphone.com Bo Eriksen has been appointed ASM at Vetaphone Major Efficiency Improvements in PVC Recycling At its factory in the Barcelona re- gion, Renolit manufactures high quality flexible PVC films. Thanks to its innovative SFneos Filtration System from Gneuss – the latest addition to its range of process- constant, continuous screen chang- ers, Renolit is now able to reuse a significant percentage of recycled material without any compromises regarding product quality or pro- duction efficiency. The flexible PVC films made by Renolit are coated on to polyes- ter and in spite of separating pro- cesses, the scrap still contains a small amount of residual polyes- ter. This is sufficient to cause prob - lems with conventional slide plate screen changers – the frequent changes due to the contamination load result in production interrup- tions and flow disturbances which, with flexible PVC lead to frequent burn-ups. The SF neos screen changer sup- plied to Renolit by Gneuss was extensively customised to exactly match the twin screw extruder, with extremely short and stream- lined flow paths, designed with the help of flow simulation software. The SF neos operates continuous- ly and pressure-stable, even with high and varying contamination loads. Thanks to these performance characteristics of the SF neos , Re- nolit was able to process a high percentage of recycling containing residual polyester without produc- tion interruptions and were there- fore able to significantly increase the yield and efficiency of their ex- isting extrusion line without com- promising their product quality. At the same time, by using waste ma- terial (and this material is gener - ally seen as difficult to recycle) Re - nolit is saving valuable resources. On post industrial recycling ap- plications, the Filtration Systems from Gneuss can play a decisive role in unlocking potential, mak- ing processes more cost-efficient and contributing toward sustain- ability. Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH www.gneuss.com SFneos Filtration System in the production line of PVC film at Renolit Customized SFneos screen changer for Renolit