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Personalised imprints or marketing campaigns linked to current sporting events – changing label motifs are very popular, since container decoration is an eye-catcher and influences consumers’ purchasing behaviour.
Gain, Tomra’s deep learning-based sorting technology, for advanced accuracy of complex sorting tasks at high throughput rates
The future of service support is becoming progressively more digital. But what for some is still a vision of the future is already corporate reality at Krones
Plast Eurasia Istanbul, the largest plastics industry fair organized annually in Europe, is being prepared firmly for the 29th time to bring together 1.100 prominent exhibitors from over 40 countries and about 60.000 professional visitors from over 100 countries.
With its successful appearance at the Düsseldorf Plastics Trade Fair BOY has created the preconditions for the further successful future of the medium-sized machine manufacturer, based in Neustadt-Fernthal.
The owner families and staff of the Engel Group mourn the loss of their former technical director Hon.-Prof. DI Dr. Dr. mont. h.c. Alfred Lampl, who passed away in October at the age of 89.
K, the leading global trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, has drawn to a close in Düsseldorf after eight days on Wednesday (23 October 2019). The 3,330 exhibitors from 63 nations proved impressively: plastics continue to be an innovative, indispensable, future-oriented material.
“Circular Economy” is the motto of the K 2019 and the largest common denominator in the cooperation between Wittmann Battenfeld and Zeroplast. The bio-based natural material is not only recyclable, bio-compatible but is also said to fulfill all the wishes and requirements of industrial customers.
At K 2019, a demonstration line for viewing direct RPET to Sheet has been arranged in the large R&D area of the KUHNE Group in the nearby St. Augustin.
The S:GRAN recycling machine series (shredder-feeder-extruder combination) for processing plastic waste was replaced by the new NXT:GRAN series and presented as a world first to an international audience at the K 2019 in Düsseldorf.
Milacron Holdings Corp. a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry continues to serve the plastics industry through high-quality solutions. Milacron’s latest investments target technologies that will offer clarity and knowledge for our customers.
The new inhouse recycling system Intarema ZeroWastePro, which Erema presented for the first time at K 2019, is specially designed for PE and PP film production waste processed in inline or offline.
The plastics industry is currently facing two major challenges: the circular economy and digitalisation. Erema is convinced that digitalisation in plastics recycling is an important pacemaker on the way to implementing a circular economy.
The Reifenhäuser Group and Russia’s largest integrated petrochemicals producer Sibur extended their cooperation and joined forces in new projects aimed at polymer processors.
Even on the most advanced machine there can be discrepancies in the distribution of PET bottle material in the stretch blow molding process. This has an impact on the bottle quality and production efficiency.
Erema redefines the benchmark for performance in bottle-to-bottle recycling.
The presentation of a first marketplace solution for the plastics industry sees Engel taking the next step in digital transformation at K 2019. Networking on a horizontal level opens up the opportunity to analyse and optimise processes across functions along the entire value stream.
On the occasion of K 2019, Engel announces that it is breaking new ground in the further digitalisation of the injection moulding process in collaboration with Autodesk.
At K-2019, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH in collaboration with LSR specialist Nexus is showcasing a full turnkey LSR exhibit, moulding high-end light guidesfor automotive LED matrix headlights.
The shredder-extruder recycling technology provider Pure Loop has added new system types to its ISEC evo series and now offers especially high output alternatives in the medium to high throughput range.
KraussMaffei will be performing a live demonstration of the 42 D long labratory extruder ZE 28 BluePower and in so doing will be showing several highlights at once.
3S is an Austrian manufacturer of screws, spirals and spindles for the extrusion and oilfield industries. They are meeting the increase in demand by investing in the expansion of their manufacturing plant.
At K 2019, which takes place from 16 to 23 October in Düsseldorf, challenging state-of-the-art applications of HRSflow’s Flexflow hot runner technology will be presented at several booths of partnering machine producers.
Speedformer KMD 78.2 Speed - Launch of a new generation.
The first line of the new RF5 generation has successfully extruded the first filaments at the nonwoven manufacturer PFN.
Chinaplas 2020 empowers plastics & rubber industries to transform with new opportunities
Boosting the use of processed plastic waste in the manufacturing of new plastic products is one of the priority tasks in the development of a circular economy for the plastics industry.
About 44,000 trade visitors1 took the opportunity to learn about innovations and trends in the packaging sector from the 1,591 exhibitors2 in attendance at FachPack, which took place in Nuremberg from 24 to 26 September 2019.
At K 2019, which takes place in Dusseldorf from October 16 to 23, Engel is expanding its range of e-temp temperature control units with an XL variant.
Used PET bottles and other plastic waste can serve the packaging sector and other industries as a valuable resource.
The new 3-layer continuous extrusion blow moulding machine ECT 880 CoEx3 by ST BlowMoulding will be the biggest machine exhibited at K 2019 in the blow moulding hall 14.
Digitalisation is Arburg's main topic (hall 20, stand 3 B10) at Moldplas from 6 to 9 November 2019 in Batalha. For the very first time presented at the K in Düsseldorf, Germany, "arburgXworld" will celebrate its premiere in Portugal shortly after.
All over the world, small craft breweries and wineries, mid-tier filling plants and large beverage conglomerates put their trust in lines and solutions from the Krones Group.
With a practice-oriented two-day event on 19-20 November 2019 in Schwertberg, Austria, Engel is continuing the very successful series of conferences on foam injection moulding.
At the Compamed in Düsseldorf Wittmann Battenfeld will demonstrate its medical technology expertise with the production of a micro retaining ring for medical miniature tubes in hall 08b, booth F03-1.
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