Tailor-made downstream

Proud of its 60 years' activity, Baruffaldi Plastic Technology (hall 17, stand C71) participates at K 2013 with a complete range of downstream machines for the extrusion of plastics pipes and profiles. Machines for pipes come from Primac, a company with a strong tradition, yet dynamic, flexible and at the forefront in providing satisfactory solutions to processors, whatever their requirements, a capability not even giant multinationals can always compete with. In particular, Baruffaldi-Primac can boast excellence in four manufacturing areas: high-speed and high-productivity extrusion tooling; machines for making holes, slots and joints for corrugated pipes; machines for assembling PVC roller shutters; turnkey plants for the production of cable ducts.
The company has also recently perfected its hot blade technology - for which it holds a number of patents - in the TG series guillotines as well as in the TPV-110 planetary guillotine for cuttings pipes, both of which get rid of burrs and dust, helping processors to manufacture top class end products. With specific reference to profiles, advances have been made in both hot blade and cold blade guillotines, now fitted with a wide range of accessories so that they can cut a large variety of profiles. The greatest advance consists in the hot blade guillotines where a special blade movement has been introduced, allowing either profiles or pipes to be cut without being deformed or becoming oval.
The TPV-110 guillotine with its planetary blade, cutting the pipe and creating a chamfer on it, is particularly suitable for electrical conduits and PP/ PPR water pipes. Nevertheless, it is also an extremely versatile, safe and reliable machine which offers many advantages: it makes a clean cut with no material removal, which means absence of swarf; it is silent and accurate within ±0.2 mm over length; the result is energy saving and the elimination of swarf removal costs. The machine can mount several different tools, according to the pipe material. It has a completely new type of frame with respect to the former models and is up to 25% faster than traditional guillotines.
The company is also keen to remind processors of the patented technology on its Primac welding machine for PE and PP pipes with diameter from 200 to 1,200 mm. This machine brings considerable benefits in the welding of pipes to injection or rotomoulded couplings by using added weld material. The system gives maximum pipe strength with no ovality, no slow-down on the extrusion line, and no wasted pipes.
At the K show, the Italian company showcases an offline Povi 5000 machine (an in-line version is also available). This system is part of the latest generation punching machines for cable ducts. The Povi 5000 allows processors to realize top class products with lower capital investment. The high quality of the cable ducts produced derives from a long-standing tradition and knowledge in punching tools which ensure perfect and accurate punching, combined with a specific software which manages the cable duct feeding and punching accuracy, and the patented coining system which eliminates all traces of burrs and dust.