International USA 1-2020
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For the Windows of the Future – New Ultradur® Grade improves the Properties of PVC-Window Profiles
Modern insulation is a key to effective climate protection, and this also applies to window profiles in new and renovated buildings. BASF has developed an Ultradur® that can be used for co-extrusion with PVC and is now available with a significantly improved property profile.
„Two Premiers and New Campaigns“
In late March 2020 the world’s No. 1 trade fairs for wire, cable and tube, wire and Tube, will once again open their doors in Düsseldorf. What’s new about the two trade fairs? There are a number of new features at the industry highlights wire and Tube but also at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre proper. Friedrich-Georg Kehrer, Global Portfolio Director for Metals and Flow Technologies, tells us more in this interview.
Smart Granulator sets New Standards
With the Ultraplex 1000 UP fine impact mill, HosokawaAlpine will show a versatile mill for the size reduction of soft materials to 3.5 Mohs’ hardness at wire 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Dependent on the feed material, the fine impact mill can be equipped simply and quickly with different, interchangeable grinding elements.
Perfect Waves – New Inspection System excels as Quality Checker of Corrugated Tubing
With the new inline gauge ProfilControl 7 S Corrugated Tube developed by PIXARGUS it is now possible to inspect the complete wavy structure of corrugated tubing gaplessly.
Automation Trends in Materials Testing
ZwickRoell offers a wide range of possibilities for automation in materials testing. Testing systems range from efficient automation of small series tests using collaborating robots in the lab to fully automated testing laboratories that work around the clock.
First COMPEO Compounding System for Color Masterbatch in Operation
Only announced to the plastics industry in the run-up to K 2019, a COMPEO 88 compounder from BUSS is already in industrial use. The first user is a multinational masterbatch manufacturer, which has been producing color masterbatches with this system since late October 2019.
CONTENTS:
| Firms in this issue | 06 |
| Imprint | 07 |
| Industry news | 08 |
| Calendar | 08 |
| 20 Years of Keeping PE Pressure Pipe at the Top of its Game | 08 |
| Forecast for Italien Manufacturers of Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery | 11 |
| 10-Day Extrusion Tooling Program launched | 12 |
| Co-Extruded TPEs | 12 |
| New Production Hall in the USA | 13 |
| Appointments | 14 |
| Market Study: Bags and Sacks – Europe (3rd ed.) | 14 |
| European Plastics Films and Sheets Association is growing | 15 |
| Certification to Key Food-Contact Standard | 16 |
| Corona Technology for Quality Extrusion | 16 |
| Consortium for Chemical Recycling | 17 |
| Twin-Screw Extruder Manufacturer equips a new Pelletizing Line with an Underwater Pelletizer | 18 |
| High-Performance Thermoplastic Film | 18 |
| Creating New Connections and Simplifying Recycled Plastics Use | 19 |
| In-House Rheology Lab launched | 20 |
| Record-Breaking Stretch Film Line | 20 |
| Halogen-Free Compounds Help Meet Carriers’ Demand for Control / Fiber Optic Cable Constructions | 21 |
| Crosshead Embodies Smart Technology for Hose Applications | 22 |
| Extrusion Control System enables to Maximize Throughput while Maintaining Tight Tolerances | 22 |
| Chinaplas 2020 postponed | 24 |
| Market Study: Bioplastics (5th edition) | 24 |
| Pelletizing – Circular Economy | 24 |
| SPE Shape Extrusion Topcon | 26 |
| 25th Anniversary as Leading Manufacturer of All-Electric Blow Molding Machinery | 26 |
| New President and CEO appointed | 27 |
| Expansion of Network in North America | 27 |
| Modern PET Bottle Concepts | 28 |
| Acquisition | 28 |
| Low Levels of +RestoreTM Additive improve Properties of PP and HDPE Post-Consumer Recyclate | 29 |
| Statement on CHINAPLAS Scheduliong Announcement | 29 |
| Extrusion Tooling | 30 |
| Reciprocating Head introduced – Automated Extrusion Process Drastically changes the Extruded Profile | 30 |
| Extrusion 4.0 | 32 |
| DIGI.LINE – Automated Extrusion Process | 32 |
| Compounding | 34 |
| First COMPEO Compounding System for Color Masterbatch in Operation | 34 |
| Measuring Technology | 35 |
| Fast and Precise Measurement of Tubular Samples | 35 |
| Testing Systems | 36 |
| Automation Trends in Materials Testing | 36 |
| Materials | 38 |
| For the Windows of the Future – New Ultradur® Grade improves the Properties of PVC-Window Profiles | 38 |
| wire Tube 2020 – Interview | 40 |
| „Two Premiers and New Campaigns“ | 40 |
| Measuring Technologies | 42 |
| Innovative and Sustainable Measuring and Control Technologies – Sikora at wire 2020 | 42 |
| Recycling, Comminution of Plastics | 44 |
| Smart Granulator sets New Standards | 44 |
| Measuring Technology | 47 |
| In-Line Measurement and Control Equipment for Highest Expectations | 47 |
| Measuring Technology | 48 |
| Perfect Waves – New Inspection System excels as Quality Checker of Corrugated Tubing | 48 |
| Measuring Technology | 50 |
| Online Quality Control of Metal Pipes, Strips and Plates with Innovative Measuring Technologies – Sikora at Tube | 50 |
| wire Tube 2020 | 52 |
| Increasingly electrified | 52 |
| Material Handling | 54 |
| With Dosing and Conveying Devices at the wire and Tube Show | 54 |
