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With many years of experience in the industry, Icma San Giorgio offers a wide range of twin-screw co-rotating extruders which make it possible to recycle various types of materials - from post-consumer waste to industrial scrap - adopting special technical features to suit each instance. On this...

A distribution agreement for Vestamid Terra has been announced by Evonik Industries and FKuR Kunststoff. With immediate effect, FKuR will market, sell and distribute Evonik's full line of biobased polyamide Vestamid Terra products worldwide. Vestamid Terra polymers are partially or entirely...

Coca-Cola, Danone, Ford, HJ Heinz, Nestlé, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and WWF announced the formation of the Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance (BFA) to support the responsible development of plastics made from plant material, helping build a more sustainable future for the...

The double station PB10E/DXL full electric blow moulding machine has been recently developed by Plastiblow, which exhibited it at K 2013, for the production of cosmetic style bottles. It features a mould holder stroke of 800 mm, an extruder with a diameter of 100 mm, an output of 300 kg/h and...

Designed specifically to meet the packaging industry's growing demand for high quality collation shrink films for the beverage market, Sabic has optimized its existing multilayer film concept, supporting film packaging applications that comprise up to five layers or more. Made with a...

The Flow is a project coming from Copenhagen. It consists of modules made of recycled plastics and wood, assembled like Lego bricks, used to build a temporarily or permanently cycling lane. Thus, those cities that aim at improving the safety of their roads with the creation of protected cycle paths...

Delivered by Caccia Engineering, Ubiquitous is the name of a remote assistance package that has been developed starting from the consideration that remote connection is a necessary condition, yet not sufficient, to ensure that all the machine's components are working properly and to timely...

The use of Comac corotating twin-screw extruders in the recycling sector has increased in recent years, after a long period during which they were employed mainly in plants for the production of masterbatch and for compounding. Indeed, the less expensive single-screw extruders are often...

On October 18, 2013, the K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf provided the setting for the now traditional Euromap (Europe's Association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers) press conference, which was attended by a large group of European journalists. Euromap provided an update on its...

Plastics Recyclers Europe confirmed steady growth of plastics recycling during its annual meeting 2013 which took place on November 21-22 in Amsterdam and gathered more than 170 participants. During this event the organisation celebrated the breakthrough of 100 members and now counts...

With the aim of completing its present series of double degassing recycling lines, Tecnova has recently introduced its new E130/54D - FTTC model, which further expands the already extensive range of solutions developed by the company for the recycling of plastic scrap. The new model is available...

The XForm range of two-platen machines for PET preforms, resulting from the cooperation between Sipa and Athena Automation started at the end of 2012, will be enriched with the 300-t version. A 150-tons version of the XForm is already available and the two companies are now preparing for the launch...

At the recent K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf, the Irish company, TSM, officially announced the establishment of TSM Italia, as well as confirming its current partnership with Leone Italia, which has been for some time the Italian agent for the gravimetric blending systems built by TSM. Thanks to the success of...

According to Uniloy, modern and efficient machines with many cavities are an effective solution to reduce the cost of the blow moulded items. This manufacturing philosophy is well recognized in the consumer packaging industry, where the monthly production often amounts to some millions of...

The new TeKo 0 is a very compact, portable and highly efficient temperature controller developed by Moretto for the micro injection moulding sector. It is a water temperature controller for indirect exchange cooling, provided with low specific load reinforced heaters and high...

The Chinese plastic converting industry showed a 5% growth during the first nine months of 2013, versus the 8.9% increase recorded in 2012, the latter being in turn much far from the +20% reached in 2011 and in the previous years, which characterised by a real boom in the local industry. This is what...

An important group operating in the field of residential, commercial and sport floorings with 15 manufacturing sites all over the world asked Tria to supply a highly-wear resistant system for the grinding of its plastic scrap. The customer needed to grind large amounts of material with a very high...

The EBB112 twin-screw extruder line, recently developed by Binova, can be used for the immediate compounding, without densifying stage, of film grinding scrap with a particular blend of "reclaim pellets" and/or various reground materials. It is also possible to add calcium carbonate- or talc-based mineral fillers...

The conference "Success with little pressure - MuCell conforming design of components" is scheduled on November 27 and 28 at the Technology Centre of Engel at Schwertberg (Austria). A fast-growing number of companies around the globe are exploiting the flexibility in article and mould...

Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, and Versalis, Eni’s chemical subsidiary and a global leader in the plastics and elastomers industry, have signed a shareholders’ agreement (SHA) to set up a joint venture company that will manufacture elastomer products produced at Petronas' proposed refinery and petrochemical...