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 07.10.2022

Aurora Plastics Mergers with Enviroplas

Aurora Plastics is a manufacturer of polymer compounds, and Enviroplas Inc. is an engineering compounding business with more than 30 years of growth history

News 07.10.2022

Sabic Names Conventus as New Distributor for Specialty Resins in North America

Conventus Polymers will provide SABIC customers with products from SABIC’s Specialties business, including ULTEM™ resins and LNP™ compounds

News 06.10.2022

Sun Chemical Opens Masterbatch Mixing Plant in Germany

The facility in Cologne comprises over 1,700 square meters of floor space to ensure an increase in production capacity

News 06.10.2022

Borealis and partners develop flexible packaging formats with 50% PCR

Application development with partners Plastotecnica and ACMI results in fully recyclable multilayer collation shrink film with appealing optics and pack stability

News 06.10.2022

Industry 4.0 capable automation components for film production

At K 2022, Erhardt+Leimer will be presenting a new generation of web guiding and web tension control systems, focusing on the integrated digital network capability of the components

News 05.10.2022

A Revolutionary Die Lip Adjustment System Set to Be Introduced by Nordson at K 2022

The new, patent pending EDI® Prodigi™ system takes extrusion and coating processes to another level by fully automating the lip gap adjustment

News 05.10.2022

Full range of yoghurt cup formats using 100% mechanically recycled polystyrene

INNOTECH announced the successful completion of trials with all dairy formats manufactured by INEOS Styrolution and COEXPAN

News 30.09.2022

ProAmpac Presented Newest Recyclable Film at Fachpack 2022

With an emphasis on their ProActive Sustainability® capabilities they will introduce their newest ProActive Recyclable® film R-2050

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

Articles

The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible

From 8 to 15 October 2025 K in Düsseldorf, completely booked up since May 2024, will again become the main stage for the international plastics and rubber industry

Case studies

Сase studies

X-ray technology in rubber hose extrusion in China

Since 2013, WOJUN (Guangzhou) Rubber Co. has integrated four SIKORA X-RAY 6000 PRO into its production lines to ensure quality control during the extrusion process

Сase studies

PVC extruder from battenfel-cincinnati convinces Bahrain Pipes

The key feature of the combination of parallel twin-screw extruder twinEX and co-extruder conEX is the permanently installed gravimetric dosing unit on the twinEX

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