Technology

Machine utilization is often difficult to predict and plastics processors need as much flexibility as possible with their equipment. Traditional financing models are not designed to adapt to the actual use of the machine due to fixed rates. Thanks to the new flexPay financing model from KraussMaffei, it is now possible...

Satisfaction at Moretto: the European Patent Office (EPO) definitively confirmed the uniqueness and exclusivity of the Dry Air system, patented by the company in 2005, but since then the subject of opposition by two competitors. After 18 years spent in the granting and opposition procedures, EPO has...

One of the relevant projects recently developed (and patented) by Baruffaldi Plastic Technology is represented by the SRM and IAM-S machines (both Primac branded) for joining the socket to the end of the pipe. Both machines can work inline after the cutting saw and offline. In the inline version, the...

The new high-capacity corrugator recently developed by Itib Machinery, that presents it at Plast 2023, is the fastest in the company's range, making it particularly suitable for the high-speed, no-compromise production of small-diameter pipes. The name FV32/112HP sums up all its main characteristics...

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes. In 2021, one of the Italy’s biggest recyclers of post-consumer PET bottles initiated a...

The Italian market is one of the Wittmann Group’s most important export markets. Consequently, the Plast Milan is a major platform for Wittmann to present its state-of-the-art technologies jointly with its local subsidiary, Wittmann Battenfeld Italia. Its second Italian subsidiary, Wittmann Digital, specializes in...

At Plast Engel will be demonstrating highly innovative applications and integrated solutions to make injection moulding more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable. For the benefit of a leaner and more resilient production. In particular, key pillars are the leveraging of...

Ready to return to Plast, ST BlowMoulding will be presenting its latest innovations and technologies at the important international trade fair to be held at Fiera Milano from 5 to 8 September. For over forty years, the company has been operating as a reliable supplier of large blow moulding machinery...

At Plast 2023, Previero will present the restyling of its plastics and rubber granulation lines, while its Sorema division will showcase the latest developments in turnkey plants for recycling post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste. In particular, Sorema will be exhibiting a WCE2500L washing centrifuge designed to...

Designed to withstand high filling pressures, the new compact stack mould, engineered by the hot runner manufacturer Oerlikon HRSflow for thin wall packaging applications, is equipped with the new Xd nozzle series. The innovative patent-pending solution, soon available on the market, enables fast injection and cycle times in...

Greek renewable energy company Terna Energy, a subsidiary of GEK Terna Group, is a leading player in clean energy production and storage, and the largest investor in Renewable Energy Sources in Greece. It further consolidates its role in sustainable development and circular economy through its...

Recently Omega Packing, a Panamanian industrial consulting and engineering company has invested in Sipa technology purchasing an Xtra rotary stretch-blow molding system for the production of bottles dedicated to rum and liquor market. Omega Packing, infact, cooperated with an important spirit brand...

Sidel is demonstrating its expertise in recycled PET (rPET) by launching its “RePETable” offer. This unique portfolio of services is designed to help the packaging industry make an efficient transition to rPET bottle production while offering support to improve the circularity of primary packaging...

From 7 to 23 June, at its headquarters in Fusignano (near Ravenna, Italy), Baruffaldi Plastic Technology is hosting the demonstration sessions of the Povi 10000 machine for the automatic punching and coining of PVC and PC/ABS cable conduits in sizes from 15x15 mm to 100x150 mm at a...

An extrusion line for expanded PET sheets by Union was recently delivered to an Asian processor. The line consists of two extruders in tandem configuration that guarantees high production rates with densities up to 80 kg/cu.m. Union's tandem solution facilitates the achievement of best extrusion quality in a...

Amut has recently completed the testing of a new PS and PP sheet co-extrusion line to be delivered to a leading European processor of thermoformed technical trays for the packaging of electronic components. With a nominal width of up to 1,200 mm and an operating width of up to 1,000 mm, the line can...

At ProPak Asia 2023, the beverage and food packaging fair to be held in Bangkok from 14 to 17 June, Sacmi will be exhibiting its solutions that reduce the weight of the neck-cap system without affecting the consumer’s experience. The development of lightened necks and caps, together with research into new, more...

Gefit will take part at the 10th edition of Plastic Closure Innovations event that will take place from 13 to 15 June at the World Trade Center in Barcelona, Spain. This event will showcase major global trends, explore recent advances and discus the latest innovations in this fast-growing market sector; also, it will...

After carrying out a washing and recycling test on bottles collected by CPC (Commercial Plastics Company), a PET bottle recycler based in Yangon (Myanmar), Sorema, an Italian company that is one of the main international reference points for its recycling plants, has designed a 2,200 kg/h flake production plant to...

Among the products exhibited by CMG Granulators at Equiplast (Barcelona 30 May-2 June), at the stand of Luiso, the local distributor, the ET2 configuration of the ET series of extrusion scrap solutions is suitable for the in-line recycling of edge trims. CMG granulators for edge trim and film recycling are available...