Technology

The global volume of turbo charged cars and trucks continues to increase year over year. As a result, the demand for more turbo air duct solutions and automotive components produced using 3D suction blow moulding technology, new materials and technologies has also increased. To support such growth ST Soffiaggio Tecnica, DuPont and ActuaPlast…

By delivering four extrusion lines for polyethylene pipes to an important Mauritanian converter, Tecnomatic increases its presence in the Sub-Saharan African markets. This new project confirms and continues the good work performed by the company in the area, with important installations in...

The range of instruments offered by Noselab ATS to perform physical-mechanical tests on plastics includes the Impact pendulum, available for impact energies up to 15, 25 and 50 J.

Thanks to the many bespoke solutions that characterise its production, the Brescia-based company IMG is always able to offer its customers, which tend to use the most diverse moulding technologies, innovative systems for multi-component injection moulding of thermoplastics, original systems for loading and injecting silicone, in...

Fort Collins, Colorado. The company OtterBox, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, was the first to use the brand new Stratasys 3D J750 printer to produce its personalised covers for various brands of mobile phones. Unveiled before the press at OtterBox itself on...

Primex Plastics Corporation, based in Richmond (Indiana, Usa) and founded in 1965, is a company which manufactures extruded plastic sheets and roll products for thermoforming, building and printing. With facilities in five States from coast to coast and in the United Kingdom, it is one of the largest plastic sheet producers in the US...

In 1996 Under Armour broke into the athletic market by reinventing the humble t-shirt. Now a powerhouse brand, Under Armour is pushing the boundaries on high-performance athletic gear. So as the company approached its 20th anniversary, the UA innovation team looked to up the ante on the brand’s performance training footwear. The team wanted...

On 15 March, Arburg welcomed customers from around the world at the international opening of its new assembly hall. A major surprise was prepared for the roughly 550 guests at this event in the form of the spectacular world premiere of the new electric Golden Electric machine series. The highlights of the series were presented by the...

A plastics processor has recently ordered a line featuring exactly the details which Polyrema wants to present in the run-up to the plastics trade fair K 2016 in Düsseldorf. The single-layer ("mono") blown film line was extensively tested under production conditions: HDPE film and a biodegradable film (from Basf resin) were produced...

The development and the optimization of the coolers of mixing plants is the latest innovation launched by Plas Mec and has been welcomed with great interest. Thanks to Plas Mec, today it is a straightforward task to cool more than 8 batches per hour of U-PVC from 120°C to 40°C...

The European Thermoforming Division (ETD) of the SPE celebrates 20 years of excellence in serving the European thermoforming industry and this milestone has been marked at the 10th thermoforming conference held in Sitges (Barcelona) on March 10 and 11. The conference, which hosted about 250 participants, was entitled...

Iran’s largest producers of PET preforms is banking on Sipa in its latest round of expansion. Khosh Form, which has operations in the cities of Mashhad (Khosh Form Toos) and Qazvin (Khosh Form Caspian), has, other than 10 different Husky machines, 7 XForm 500 preform injection molding system at both locations, all of them running with 96-cavity…

Nowadays we hear a lot about 3D printers, which are also widely used: the 3D printer represents the latest frontier of the global manufacturing industry, and while it can certainly be said to have been reached, there remains much to explore. Perhaps surprisingly, the 3D is 30 years old: indeed, 11 March 1986 was the day that saw the publication of…

On January 29 this year, the manufacturer FB Balzanelli was described, in an article published in “Il Sole 24 Ore” (Italian daily newspaper of economic information) as a top Italian company. Reference was also made to its latest achievement: machine model FBML7 5200, designed and created specifically for the winding of...

Manufacturer of moulds for thermoplastics and assembly machines, Gefit recently developed a 48-cavity mould for coffee capsules demonstrates. Coffee capsules have conquered the taste and the favour of the European consumers, so that their use becomes every day higher, according to the frantic pace that modern market...

The common agreement between Athena Automation (Vaughan, Ontario) and Sipa (Vittorio Veneto, Italy), involving injection moulding systems for PET preforms, has come to an end. The two companies began a formal collaboration in late 2012 on equipment based around small and medium-sized injection moulding machines (with clamp forces of...

A framework agreement has been recently signed by Wittmann Battenfeld and Hayco. The agreement covers the manufacture of SmartPower and MacroPower series to Hayco in the coming 5-10 years. Hayco with headquarters in Hong Kong is a manufacturer of modern household products...

Rodolfo Comerio has developed two enormous calenders, among the largest ever built worldwide, for the lamination of thermoplastic resins and bonding with special materials. One features 4 and the other 5 cylinders (each with a diameter of 870 mm) and they both have a 5,000 mm working table. Each of these 30-ton calenders is over 8 m long...

The US company Moog and IIT, (Italian Institute of Technology) announced that they signed an agreement for the creation of a new joint lab - Moog@IIT - focusing on the development of next-generation actuation and control technologies for autonomous robots. IIT and Moog will work together over the next three years to develop the required…

This year sees Bausano & Figli reaching the significant landmark of 70 years in business. It was indeed 1946 when Clemente Bausano founded Costruzioni Meccaniche Clemente Bausano in Rivarolo Canavese, just outside Turin - the same company that is now an established name, at global level, in the construction of equipment and lines for...