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The market-segment leader in cast stretch film extrusion renovates its configurations to boost ease of use, flexibility, scrap reduction, specialty films production while offering cost-effective expenditure.
Large-area filtration faces the stigma of high costs, maintenance efforts, and time-consuming changeover and cleaning activities. However, good filtration is unavoidable with increasing rPET proportions.
International distributor Biesterfeld is to receive additional distribution mandates for BASF's Elastollan Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers.
Innovia Films, a leading material science pioneer that manufactures BOPP films for labels, graphics, packaging and tobacco, has announced the opening of a new line for specialty films at their Schkopau site near Leipzig in Germany.
Ampacet offers a comprehensive portfolio of PFAS-free Polymer Processing Aids (PPA), providing an effective alternative to conventional fluorinated PPA masterbatches.
To all industries relying on high-performance thermoplastics, BASF is now offering the world’s first biomass-balanced polyethersulfone (PESU).
Compact design, high capacity and budget-friendly - these attributes have always been synonymous with the inline inspection system AllRounDia DV.
K 2025 has set out to tackle the central challenges of our time and present concrete solutions. This aim is also reflected by its guiding topics. One of them reads “Embracing Digitalisation”
The internationally operating MAAG Group, headquartered in Oberglatt, Switzerland, has been stepping up its localization strategy in China. MAAG China has continuously increased its business activities and sales.
The STS twin screw extruder is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. Over the years, the STS extruder series has established itself on the market as a high-performance quality product for a wide range of extrusion and compounding tasks.
Today, Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, announced the launch of new stain-resistant additive concentrates as the latest addition to its Cesa Fiber Additives portfolio.
Davis-Standard, LLC is pleased to announce that its Davis-Standard Global Services UK facility has renewed its ISO 14001 certification. This international standard recognizes organizations for their commitment to environmental management.
Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, announced the launch of ColorMatrix Lactra ESL, an additive solution formulated for the extended shelf-life (ESL) dairy market.
Martin Schnabl has been CEO of MAS Austria since June 2014. We spoke to Managing Director and looked back on the last ten years in detail.
South Korea’s leading global chemical company LG Chem and the extrusion machine manufacturer Reifenhäuser have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), confirming further extensive cooperation.
Among the technologies developed by Promix Solutions for the plastics industry, the inline viscometer “Visco-P” is gaining increasing interest in the extrusion of foams.
“The investment costs for complete pipe extrusion lines quickly pay off thanks to us”, Andreas Türk, Director Sales Infrastructure at battenfeld-cincinnati GmbH, Bad Oeynhausen, is certain.
Plast Eurasia Istanbul, the eagerly anticipated coming together of the plastic industry, will once again take the stage with record-breaking number of participants to display their innovations at Tüyap Fair and Congress Center between December 4-7.
The Bekum Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of extrusion blow moulding machines with 300 employees across Germany, Austria, and the USA, announces an important change in its leadership structure.
The increased use of recyclates and raw materials from different sources makes it much more challenging to keep extrusion processes under control.
From October 15 to 19, 2024, Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) showcased its latest developments in plastics recycling at Fakuma in Friedrichshafen.
Syensqo has launched Ryton PPS XE-5000NA, the first grade of an innovative extrudable polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) technology set to revolutionize the performance and sustainability of piping materials.
P1 cooling mixers from Promix Solutions can significantly improve existing extrusion and pelletizing processes but also polymer production processes.
The revolutionary extrusion technology, globally deployed by the Austrian innovation leader MAS, is reaching new heights. The MAS 110, a compact extrusion marvel, is on the verge of its launch.
The programs have been announced for the four free-to-attend conference theaters at the AMI Plastics World Expos, which take place on November 13-14 in Cleveland, OH, USA.
After extrusion machine specialist Reifenhäuser presented the automation system PAM for flat dies and coextrusion adapters for the first time at the K 2022 plastics trade fair, the 150th system has now been installed on a customer line.
The mechanical engineering company Feddem GmbH & Co. KG is once again exhibiting at this year's Fakuma and will be presenting its latest developments in Hall A6, Stand 6217.
For 23 years now, Wittmann Battenfeld do Brasil has not only been a supplier, but also an important development partner for Krona.
Colines Holding group has further strengthened its leadership position in the European market for plastic film extrusion lines.
At the Fakuma Promix Solutions will exhibit key components for the production of light foams, static mixers, melt coolers and inline viscometers for real-time process control, at the new location in Hall A6, Stand 6108.
Reifenhäuser Group, a global leader in plastics extrusion technology, announces a significant expansion of its field service operations across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
Ampacet offers an extended portfolio of PFAS-Free Polymer Processing Aids (PPA) that allows to substitue conventional Fluorinated-based PPA masterbatches used in various processes.
Succession to Ulrich Reifenhäuser, who had been in this position for more than 25 years
With effect from July 1, Eugen Friedel (42) is leading the business of Reifenhäuser Blown Film as the new part of the dual management team alongside Dr. Andreas Neuss.
The RecyQuant research project makes it possible to monitor and maintain tolerable levels of foreign materials in the recyclate directly in the process.