Process numerous and different materials in one mill without retooling; do away with expensive cooling when working with difficult materials; produce better particle shapes; and, finally, offer high process reliability.
LyondellBasell has announced that it has granted a Hostalen ACP process technology license to Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd. Start-up for this new HDPE plant in the Chinese Shaanxi province is scheduled for 2014.
Costs of changing colors, on-going reduction in batch sizes, optimized cleaning and the use of color pigment carriers are all factors to be considered when coloring profile extrusions. Here cost cutting potential exists. Bolta is one of the first companies in the plastics industry to deploy Novopearls, a wax-based micro-granulate.
Kraiburg TPE's innovative elastomer technology delivers optimum grip even when wet.
Maguire adds polystyrene and flexible vinyl to the list of materials that are reclaimable with the Purging Recovery System (PRS) and achieves CE certification for the system.
During the Interplastica Symposium "Coextrusion of PVC window profiles" at the Moscow Exhibition Center on January 25, 2012, KraussMaffei Berstorff will provide information on intelligent extruder concepts together with different and premium quality coextrusion solutions for economical window profile extrusion.
Many nations have set challenging targets for renewable energy production and it was in this setting that AMI held the latest global conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture in December 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The companies Mürdter, Trexel and KraussMaffei are cooperating in the production of large components.
Objects made of plastic are constant features of our everyday lives; we are literally surrounded by them. Synthetic materials (polymers) really have proved to be all-round solutions for products from files to toothbrushes and are in the meantime essential elements of our working, living and leisure environments.
APPE, the packaging division of LSB, has invested €1.5m to develop and install Sample-PreWatcher technology from Intravis GmbH for the automatic inspection of the key quality parameters of preforms.
Engel Austria has now made it even easier to use MuCell technology with a new control interface.
KraussMaffei develops the efficiency of modern injection molding machines in processing complex materials.
