Extrusion

sustainability

Worldwide Switch to New Gauging System Pays Off for Haartz

Leading supplier of sheet and roll stock for automotive applications reevaluated its thickness-measurement technology in 2012, and now has 15 scanners in place worldwide from one supplier.

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Packaging

Davis-Standard Buys Thermoforming Machine Builder TSL

Can now offer sheet processors in food packaging turnkey package that includes extrusion and thermoforming machinery.

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polyolefins

PPA Adds Five to 2018 Membership Roster in April

Five honored at group’s spring meeting in Florida.

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Shop Online for 'Off-the-Shelf' Medical Tubing

Spectrum Plastics Group releases an upgraded online store for stock and custom medical extrusions to support catheter delivery system development.

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polyolefins

A Gel By Any Other Name...

Gels…unmelt…contaminants…inclusions…whatever you call them, you want to avoid them. Proper maintenance and good housekeeping—lids on boxes, closed hopper doors, core-free reclaim systems—go a long way towards defect-free product.

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Automation

Industry 4.0: Now It’s Extrusion’s Turn

Euromap publishes trial versions of standard interfaces for extrusion lines and components.

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Nordson Building New Hub for Flat Die Business

Facility will include new production equipment and workflow systems that will ‘redefine the way dies are built’ for Nordson’s EDI and Premier product lines.

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dies

Sheet: On-Line Tool Calculates ROI for Fast-Change Die

Processors can analyze how quickly new fast-change die pays for itself.

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monitoring

Controls: Modular Package for Extrusion

System billed as modular and scalable for all types of extrusion control.

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Sheet: Next-Generation System For PET

Optimized extruder, new feedblock options, and Industry 4.0 compatibility highlight new line for PET packaging sheet.

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