25 April 2023
With its product ELATUR® TM, Evonik is launching another latest-generation innovative plasticizer, a year after the last product launch. The new specialty product belongs to the trimellitate group and is characterized by a...
11 April 2023
In the packaging industry, plastics are an irreplaceable material for protecting goods and foodstuffs and thus an important component in the value chain. The carbon footprint of this packaging is often significantly lower than...
22 March 2023
Sustainable quality and process optimization in film extrusion with iPQ-Surface Lorenzo Barnini, Technical Sales Manager and son of the founding Barnini family: “In order to eliminate potential defects and color deviations...
1 March 2023
Collaboration is targeted at maximizing the energy capacity of lightweight and compact next-generation battery packs for e-mobility. Solvay has announced that its Battery Enclosure Materials Automation (BEMA) project for...
3 February 2023
What do a tunnel and hiking boot have in common? Both have a membrane that prevents the ingress of rain. In the case of the tunnel, the Norwegian company Oldroyd is an expert for the membrane and its injection-molded fixing...
2 February 2023
Clariter, a global cleantech company, and TotalEnergies Fluids, a division of TotalEnergies, have premiered the world’s first sustainable ultra-pure solvent made from plastic waste. Ultra-pure solvents are used in...
6 October 2022
GEWISS presents I-CORD, the universal cable for charging electric vehicles designed using special technopolymers obtained from the recovery of nylon. A step forward towards truly green mobility. JOINON, the GEWISS offer for Smart...
8 September 2022
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today introduced two new LNP™THERMOCOMP™ compounds that offer the potential to improve signal gain performance vs. ceramics in second-generation automotive global navigation...
17 August 2022
WACKER will be premiering its novel ELASTOSIL® LR 3078 product series at K 2022 International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber. These self-adhesive liquid silicone rubber grades cure extremely fast and establish a firm bond...
7 April 2022
Comau is expanding its product portfolio with the new N-220-2.7 (N-220), a 220 kg payload robot featuring a modular set up, direct kinematics, absolute calibration, and enhanced algorithms. These characteristics deliver...
2 March 2022
Safe processes and utmost reliability: the medical industry sets strict criteria for the production of medical devices. Medical tubes, in particular, require the highest quality in terms of dimensional accuracy, surface type and...
28 February 2022
ILLIG is expanding its customer service program with new virtual tools. Augmented reality (AR) devices and software solutions will be deployed to support customers remotely. The complementary visualization technologies will...
21 February 2022
SECO/WARWICK will deliver to Michelin a compact Vector® vacuum furnace with a 400x400x600mm heating chamber. It will be indispensable for the gas hardening process used in the manufacture of tools for premium tires. “With a...
12 January 2022
Milliken & Company, specialized in polymer additive and colorant capabilities, continues to broaden the range of sustainable solutions it offers to help customers improve their resin formulations, compounds and end products....
10 January 2022
Sustainability is now a key concept that affects all economic sectors, first and foremost construction, where attention is increasingly required when dealing with innovative and eco-sustainable materials, also for interior...
3 November 2021
Covestro today announces the launch of an additional approach as part of its strategy to enable more sustainable, safer solutions for the decorative paints and coatings market. As part of this new approach the organization will...
19 October 2021
A picture says more than a thousand words, and a video more than a photo. ENGEL is extending the service scope of its online support and remote maintenance offering to include live video transmission. Some three quarters of all...
4 October 2021
The aerospace industry, which spans a host of applications from aviation to industrial and military purposes, has taken innovations in plastic materials into a broader space. While metals are mainstay in the aerospace industry,...
20 September 2021
Having demonstrated a prototype of a new, general-purpose 5-axis robot (the Success 22X) at the K 2019 trade fair, Sepro Group has now finished the redesign of the entire range and is bringing two examples to the...
9 September 2021
SABIC has announced the successful roll-out of another project as part of its TRUCIRCLE™ program to accelerate the implementation of a circular plastic economy. Allied Bakeries, a major UK based supplier of bakery products, has...
24 August 2021
Besides digitalisation and automation, the circular economy is a key topic in the plastics processing industry. Changing from a linear to a circular economy, the quality of the recycled material plays an increasingly important...
23 August 2021
“Plastic products are essential in our every day life” says Renato Moretto, founder and President of Moretto SpA, manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry. “Our real challenge is to turn the critical...
15 March 2021
Color Service has built an innovative and reliable system applied to the Plastic Industry that guarantees 24/7 Repeatability, Traceability and High Accuracy of the dosing process of any pigment and additive. The revolutionary...
12 March 2021
To meet growing demand for automation in clean rooms and other sensitive environments in medical and pharmaceutical molding plants, Sepro Group is introducing the MED Series of 3-, 5- and 6-axis robots. These packaged units come...
25 January 2021
Researchers in the UK and the United States have succeeded in ‘fine tuning’ a new thermoplastic biomaterial to enable both the rate at which it degrades in the body and its mechanical properties to be controlled...
10 December 2020
Solvay and PrinterPrezz are collaborating to develop 3D printing selective laser sintering solutions (SLS) for implants and other medical devices. PrinterPrezz is a trailblazer in combining polymer and metal 3D printing,...
9 December 2020
BASF and the Swedish packaging manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs have cooperated to develop a unique home-compostable paper laminate for flexible packaging. The multi-layer film consists of three basic components:...
1 December 2020
Broadening the market potential of plastic recyclates and thereby furthering the uptake of recycled content across Europe is APK AG’s core objective. The innovative recycling company from Merseburg, Germany has tested the...
25 November 2020
SABIC today announced that biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film based on the company’s certified circular PP from feedstock recycling of used plastics will be introduced in primary pet food brand packaging by Mars,...
11 November 2020
Having the data is not the same as being able to analyze and use them to improve procedures and production. Applying the Pareto Principle, we could say that 20% of the problems cause 80% of the losses. The market requires fast...
2 October 2020
Borealis and MENSHEN, a specialist for plastic closures and packaging systems, have collaborated on a series of 10 packaging closures based on Borcycle™, an evolving recycling technology which transforms polyolefin-based waste...
25 September 2020
Founded in 1987, Color Service is an Italian company and the producer of Automatic Dosing Systems. With a start in the Textile field and thanks to over 30 years of experience and know-how, Color Service has introduced in 2009 the...
18 September 2020
With the 100th injection molding machine, KraussMaffei is delivering a special machine, the new PX 50-55, to a special customer: Polycom, a family-run company founded 35 years ago by two brothers, which has established itself as...
30 May 2020
Founded in the heart of Tuscany in 1983, Meccanoplastica has been able to adapt and turn from a small firm of three founding Partners into a leading business on the Italian market and abroad, with offices in Florence (Italy) and...
22 April 2020
The German machinery and plant manufacturer Reifenhäuser Reicofil has temporarily converted two of its test plants due to the corona pandemic: The lines installed in the nonwovens technology center, which are otherwise...
20 December 2018
Established in 2003, MB Spritzgusstechnik in Marktoberdorf (Bayern, Germany), is an owner-managed company. MB develops and produces technically sophisticated injection molded parts from almost all common thermoplastics and...
8 October 2018
Ritmo S.p.A presents Stargun K-SB the line of Extruders. K-SB 20 is the most compact model that uses Ø 3 and 4mm rod of PE, PP and PVDF. The maximal output is 2kg/h and it can be used for sheets up to 20mm thickness. The...
5 September 2018
For powerful size reduction of very hard material with a feed size of 95 mm down to 0.05 mm final fineness in a single...
2 May 2018
Following a highly successful European launch, NPE 2018 will be the platform to launch the Negri Bossi NOVA eT all-electric machine range to the North American market. A NOVA eT 180-630 machine will be used to demonstrate the...
6 April 2018
The Italian company MARIS S.p.A., is one of the few leading manufacturer of co-rotating twin-screw extruders in the world, still producing in-house their extrusion lines. The screws are self-cleaning modular elements, suitable...
5 April 2018
We have participated at Arburg Technology Days 2018. Around 6,300 invited guests from 54 nations came to Lossburg for the Arburg Technology Days, held from 14 to 17 March 2018. Around 660 employees and trainees played an active...
