Extrusion

sustainability

Flexible Film Processor Opens Recycling Lab

TC Transcontinental Packaging’s new facility allows it to facilitate development of new products in the areas of compostable, recyclable, and recycled content packaging.  

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Extrusion

Extruder Alignment: Important, but Only Half the Equation

The other half? Aligning and supporting downstream equipment. Here are best practices.

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Extrusion

MAAG Pump Buys Witte Pumps & Technology

Combination of two suppliers of melt pumps forms new Gear Pumps 911爆料网 unit.

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k show

More Automation Comes to Blown Film Processing

New system for cuts in half the time to move from one product format to another.

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Radar-Based Wall-Thickness Sensor

Measurement units include an array of these sensors positioned around the circumference of the pipe, which can be placed in multiple locations on an extrusion line.  

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Compounding

Nanopowder Screw Coating for High-Wear Applications

Coating option for tops of feedscrew flights also showcased.

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Film Extrusion

Auto Gauge is Easy to Install, Use, Maintain

Billed as a reliable and effective solution for controlling transverse direction film thickness.  

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dies

Davis-Standard to be Systems Integrator for Novel EDI Flat Die

Die uses motorized lip-adjustment, said to be three to five times faster than heated-bolt adjustments.

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Automation

Non-Contact Control of Flat Dies, Adapters

More automation comes to flat die technology.  

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KraussMaffei Group Announces Leadership Change

At the start of 2023, Li Yong will replace Michael Ruf as CEO of the plastics machinery equipment supplier headquartered in Germany and majority owned by China’s Sinochem since 2018.

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Plastics Size Reduction