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Amcor Introduces the Industry's Lightest 16oz PET Salad Dressing Container
Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of PET packaging, has made a major advancement in weight reduction with the development of the lightest 16oz PET salad dressing bottle in North America. The 16oz Curve, a stock oblong container, weighs in at just 29.5g, almost 20% lighter than the industry standard (35.3g). It also beats out a competitive 30.4g PET bottle, which until now was the industry’s lightest salad dressing container.
Cooking allowed…at over 120°C (250°F)
From now on food and ready-prepared meal packaging and containers can be made of up to 100% recycled PET (rPET) produced on VACUREMA recycling systems, even if temperatures rise above 120°C (250°F) during the heating process. It does not matter if the items are heated in a microwave or conventional oven.
Michelin has developed the world’s biggest tire, the MICHELIN XDR 59/80R63
The world’s largest tire, the MICHELIN XDR 59/80 R 63 will welcome visitors to BAUMA 2010. It will be on display in the atrium between Halls A3 and B3. The 63-inch tire measures more than 4 meters high, weighs 5.3 tonnes and can carry loads of up to 100 tonnes. This record-breaking tire has enabled equipment manufacturers to design and produce the latest generation of giant trucks used today in mines around the world.
DME and P.E.T.S. Unveil New Patented Electric Valve Gate & Sequencer
Electric Valve-Gate System ideally suited for high-precision, clean-room molding applications, commonly found in the medical arena. This patented Electric Valve-Gate offers unprecedented valve-pin movement of 6"/s. and unequaled closing forces (over 35,000 PSI)
Polish customer have installed new extrusion line for pipes production
The KyroSys extrusion line offered by Austrian machine manufacturer Cincinnati Extrusion has helped KNG Awans, a company based in Czarnków, Poland, to produce PE multi layer pipes more efficiently.
Engel’s Exjection technology
Exjection technology supports the production of long sections and rails with integrated fitting, closure, reinforcing and decor elements via a single injection point in a single production cycle. We chose a fully electrical Engel e-motion injection moulding machine for this process as it guarantees the required level of process integration. IB Steiner has now been awarded the 2009 State Prize for consulting/engineering consulting for the development of the Exjection process.
New Kortec's Multilayer Color Gradation Technology’ (MCGT)
Kortec Inc. will introduce an all-new high barrier, multilayer molding technology that allows for molded-in color gradation to clear PET bottles.
Metal substitution and recyclate grades in focus
New process and material developments for metal replacement and new materials with a high recycled content are the focal point of Lanxess’s presentation at Fakuma in Friedrichshafen.
Multirange synthesis for producing polyol
New MP reactor for producing APP optionally from PET or terephthalic acid in mid-sized systems.
Vacurema inline sheet technology going from strength to strength
Erema, the Austrian manufacturer of plastic recycling systems, is recording above-average growth rates for its Vacurema inline sheet technology for the production of flat PET film in a single working step direct from post-consumer bottle flake.
Engel at Fakuma 2009
The use of energy-saving machines and energy saving systems is still in the injection moulder's focus. And this makes it all the more important for the machine manufacturer to face these challenges and offer innovative and sustainable energy-efficient solutions for injection moulders. With a motto of "Driving you eco" Engel is exhibiting at Fakuma 2009 in Friedrichshafen from 13th to 17th October.
