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Ampacet innovative solutions for film applications
Ampacet LAMSLIP 754 is a specialty Masterbatch solution designed to provide outstanding and consistent slip properties to laminated film structures for trouble-free converting and packing operations.
ExxonMobil introduces new polymer grade for flexible packaging
ExxonMobil will display a new Exceed XP performance polymers grade for high-performance coextrusion films, and recycle opportunities using Vistamaxx performance polymers at Arabplast 2019.
If one is not enough ... DUO!
When the production of blow moulded industrial items is high, is it better to choose more single-cavity machines (doubling the cost of investment, the floor space and energy consumption) or a multi-cavity machine, which minimizes all these costs, but makes production less flexible?
Arlanxeo's Keltan KSA opens flagship online Customer Self-Service Platform
In 2018 Arlanxeo signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco to market and sell its share of Ethylene Propylene Diene rubbers (EPDM) produced in its Petro Rabigh joint-venture plant. Today, Arlanxeo launches its Keltan KSA Self-Service platform to serve its customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
100 years "Catalyst Laboratory" in Leverkusen
The "Catalyst Laboratory" was founded 100 years ago in Leverkusen. At that time, the scope of activities was outlined as "work on catalytic reactions involving organic substances". This laboratory now belongs to the specialty chemicals company Lanxess and operates as a cross-divisional competence center for catalysts and their applications.
Omron Launches TM Series Collaborative Robot
Omron Corp. has announced the global launch of the TM series collaborative robot family to realize an innovative manufacturing environment where humans and machines work in harmony.
Krones Contiform 3 Speed: 2,750 containers per cavity/hour
Krones revamped under the motto of "producing more, consuming less" the existing stretch blow-moulding machine concept and presented the new Contiform 3 Speed, which extends the product portfolio - and fully lives up to its name.
Arburg at Interplastica 2019: Expertise in multi-component injection moulding
Arburg will be presenting a complex application for multi-component injection moulding at Interplastica 2019 in Moscow (Russia) from 29 January to 1 February: A hydraulic two-component Allrounder 570 S will produce ice scrapers from ABS and TPE.
20 years of Brückner's Technology Center
Exactly 20 years ago Brückner's Technology Center, on the company premises in Siegsdorf, was opened. Various practical research facilities as well as pilot line and laboratory line are located on 2,900m2.
Erema presents the new global innovation Vacunite at PETnology
New bottle-to-bottle process for food-contact-grade rPET pellets stands out through highly efficient decontamination, compact design and low energy consumption.
International audience at NGR - KUHNE PET Day
117 representatives from the international plastics industry gathered together at Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen in Feldkirchen an der Donau to experience live the new Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP) method of PET recycling.
