Technology

Versatility and weight reduction - which means greater competitiveness, quality and process repeatability - have made this technology a true winner. And with a complete solution just supplied to a major player on the local dairy market, the positive feedback keeps on coming...

At the Tire Technology Expo 2018, to be held in Hannover (Germany) from February 20 to 22, Comerio Ercole will present several products for high-performance and flexible calendering and mixing processes, as well as its service packages dedicated to the fields of smart factory and Industry 4.0. The latter includes the new Cem Engineering 4.0 area...

For the two-component injection molding of the rear-quarter windows of polycarbonate for the Buick GL8 and GL8 Avenir MPVs (multi-purpose vehicles), Chinese Tier 1 supplier Shentong uses two hot runner systems from HRSflow. One is for producing the transparent first component and the other for the partial, seamless overmolding with a...

At the Interplastica 2018, to be held in Moscow from January 23 to 26, 2018, Arburg will present a high-speed thin-wall application for the packaging industry: a "Packaging" version of a hybrid Allrounder 570 H will produce four IML tubs in a cycle time of around 1.9 seconds...

Designer and manufacturer of high performance motion control products, solutions, and services, Moog enlarged its product range of Electrohydrostatic Pump Units (EPU) with the EPU size 80 cc in order to help customers address a wider range of applications. The product line now includes the sizes 19, 32 and 80 cc. The EPU size 80 cc is ideal for...

Thanks to the Rotodosing system - that ensures an ideal weight for each mould - combined with the Powderspeed system - used for the long distance transport of powder and non-powder materials - Dega offers a solution which can solve the problems concerning the costs due to the wastage of material during the production phase. The production cycle…

More and more often water, gas and cables are distributed, transported, channelled and protected in our cities and homes by plastic piping; as indeed are fluids, vapours and wires in our cars and domestic appliances; plastic pipes are also frequently used in the medical sector. In these and numerous other applications corrugated piping...

Four ST Blow Moulding machines from the Isit series have been delivered to the French toys manufacturer Smoby Toys, member of the German group Simba Dickie, which will be supplied with two other machines. The blow moulding machines for France range from the Isit 400 (400 kN clamping force and 5 litres accumulator head) up to the Isit 1300 (2000 kN…

Inoutic ranks among the leading European manufacturers of energy-efficient profile systems for windows, doors and roller blinds. Its product portfolio also includes terrace systems as well as facade and roof claddings made of wood-plastic composite and PVC. Since sustainable management of existing resources is a top priority for the company, the...

At the end of the 80’s Maris received a very important and challenging request: to test our corotating twin-screw extruder as a “reactor” extruder, for the continuous polymerization of POM. This idea was born by a group of chemists from a North Eastern European Research Institute. The process they wanted to obtain by our “reactor” extruder was to…

A live demonstration of five PET rigid film extrusion lines will open Bandera’s 2018. From January to April, those lines dedicated to the thermoforming and form-fill-seal (FFS) sectors will be shown at the House of Extrusion, before being delivered to five converters based in Poland, Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia...

Global leader in applied additive technology solutions, Stratasys has recently introduced GrabCAD Voxel Print, a new software solution for its J750 3D printing solution, which provides true voxel level control during the design and 3D printing process. Manipulating microscopic voxels, which are the building blocks of 3D printing, enables users to…

Recently, the European Patent Office (EPO) has definitively established that Moretto’s KruiseKontrol is a unique system in the granules feeding and conveying systems of the plastics industry. As the Veneto-based manufacturer states in a press release, for years competitors have...

From 28 November to 1 December at The House of Extrusion, Bandera will be presenting Technoflex PO5, its new five-layer polyolefin extrusion technology. A complete system for coextrusion of polyethylene bubble film will be on show. Its main characteristics include: a 26-component batch dosing system; a 100 mm diameter extruder for the core layer,…

Invention, development, innovation and quality are four concepts that have proved the focus of the solutions adopted by Exact Attrezzature Meccaniche over the past forty years, at the service of the plastics industry. The company, based in Ciserano-Zingonia (Bergamo, Italy), has an authentic Italian family history behind it, and the company know-…

Following the trials at Bandera’s research and development centre The House of Extrusion in August, a new AgriFuture extrusion line was recently delivered to a well-renowned Asian plastic processor, among the leading producers of agriculture packaging film in Asia. The project is the prompt answer to the urgent Asian market demand for increasingly…

In recent years, the flooring market has shown a strong increase in LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tile) demand worldwide, thanks to its advantages in relation to durability and minimal maintenance requirements. Promixon, an Italian company specialising in the manufacture of mixing plants for plastics and powder coatings, has heavily invested in product ...

In the plastic recycling market, Adler points out a growing request for large capacities and highly reliable machines. Following this trend, the manufacturer has recently supplied some northern European customers with blades granulators specially designed for inline grinding and recycling of EPS sheet with a thickness that reaches...

Always keep machines performances under control, wherever you are. Today this is possible thanks to Gefdata, the software designed and realized by Gefit engineers, that allows all managers and operators to monitor their assembly machines performances at any time...

A complete foaming system for the insulation of professional refrigerating cabinets, which allows the production of 32 different cabinet models, has been supplied by Saip to Vallenoncello (Pordenone, Italy) production plant of Electrolux Professional. The system consists of a cabinet foaming plant, face-up technology, composed of...