Extrusion International 4-2021

5 Extrusion International 4/2021 The PVC industry depends on a secure supply of additives. To provide more readily available lubricants that are independent of castor as a feedstock but that provide similar performance bene fi ts, Emery Oleochemicals, a global specialty chemicals manufacturer, has developed effective bio-based alternatives The need to expand the range in plastic solutions that combine and fully comply with the requirements for the durability of an installation, is what leads Molecor to develop a technological solution for the manufacture of TOM ® PVC-O pipes up to diameter 1200 mm PIXARGUS is notable especially as a supplier of high- end solutions for technologically challenging quality inspection tasks. Now, PIXARGUS is setting a strong foot also in the lower-budget segment 44 Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along and changes everything. FIMIC, the Italian company known as the specialists in automatic self- cleaningmelt fi lters, has been able to introduce a few of this into the world in the last two decades. Since the introduction of the fi rst scrapper technology – a new method of work that didn’t just change FIMIC core business, but it changed the whole plastic recycling market – the melt fi lter specialists developed other solutions to target highly contaminated plastic materials, especially post-industrial and post-consumer plastics. This is how, today, FIMIC is the only company on the market specialized in fi ltration with a range of fi ve different models of automatic melt fi lters. This September 9th, in an unprecedented event, broadcasted all over the world, FIMIC will unveil its latest innovation, a technology destined to improve the life and ef fi ciency of recyclers taking it to levels never seen before…The secret is in a screw! 34 Since 2013, Austrian extrusion and recycling technology company MAS and Dutch fi lm recycling company Caroda have been cooperating in the technological development of fi lm recycling systems. These systems focus on LDPE industrial fi lms, with a higher LLDPE content, as well as agricultural fi lms 42 46 Front page: FIMIC’s newest breakthrough solution for the recycling process Fimic www. f i mic.it