Technology

The new machine developed by Gefit is destined to the medical packaging market. At the end of a thorough designing work and product engineering, carried out in close cooperation with the customer, the manufacturer located in Fubine (near Alessandria, Italy) has finalized and completed a new structured and important project...

From May 18 to 20 Leistritz will hold an “Extrusion Academy” in Nuremberg. It is a training programme which has been running since 2003 and which involves laboratory technicians of the company in a variety of practical demonstrations on various extrusion lines and auxiliary systems. The aim is to provide effective combination of...

The two plants being tested at the Union factory in San Vittore Olona (near Milan), are destined for the markets of Central and South America. The first line includes two single-screw extruders (a TR 130 and a TR 75 respectively) for the coextrusion of hollow sheeting made of EPP, with a working width of 2,500 mm and...

The SIT 2016 seminar on technological innovation took place from April 12 to 14 at the general offices of Piovan in Santa Maria di Sala (Venice). It is a traditional event dedicated to the Italian clients of this Venetian company of auxiliary systems for plastic material processing. The protagonist of the sixth edition was the most advanced…

From April 25 to 28 Shangai will play host to Chinaplas 2016 with Moretto attending the event in a wide exhibition area. At the stand of the Italian manufacturer from Massanzago (near Padua) visitors will be able to see the latest developments concerning conveying, dosing and drying processes...

The Industrial Group of Moog declared Doug Bitner, manager for the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Engineering Fluid Power Lab, the winner of its contest to find the oldest operating Moog servo valve after he sent in a video showing lab equipment running with a Moog 21 Series servo valve manufactured in 1963. Moog launched...

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...