PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 58 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net Maag Hall 9 Booth A04 Compact screen changer Maag Filtration’s new screen changer will be shown and demonstrated at K 2013. The company says it is the most compact of its type in the world. The new model has up to four times more filter area than conventional systems. It adapts the patented design of Maag’s large-area polymer screen changer to the special needs and filter requirements of the extrusion industry. The pistons are now fitted with curved breaker plates. 75% of the active piston surface acts as an filtration area and this is claimed to give a filtration area up to four times the size for any given footprint area, which also leads to longer screen life, low pressure differential, a lower flux rate, and an increased filtration level. Its technol- ogy was described in PETplanet Insider issue 05/2013. Also on display will be Maag Pump Systems’ new Maax 400S, an automation solution targeted at co-extrusion lines. It comple- ments the company’s existing maax 100S and 600S models and features a new controller, based on the latest Siemens Simatic HMI generation, with a high-resolution 16 million color widescreen touch panel display. Maag group company Automatik Plastics Machinery will be showing its Duro 2000, which is designed for the cost-effective drying of abrasive and sensitive compounds. www.maag.com Dryers and more Motan Colortronic GmbH will be exhibiting its new range of Luxor CA S dryers with hopper volumes of 0.75, 1.5, 3 and 5l, which has been developed for the production of small and micro parts, is among the highlights. The dryers are small and light enough to be mounted on all processing machines. They take factory-supplied compressed air and expand it to atmospheric pressure, which produces dry pro- cess air with a very low dew point. Motan’s ATTN automatic tem- perature and dew point levelling system option is now available for the whole Luxor A dryer range. ATTN has been specially devel- oped for applications with which drying of materials needs to take place within a narrow dew point “window”. Also on the stand will be Ultrablend gravimetric dosing system for pharma, medical and cleanroom applications; new Spec- tracolor G dosing and mixing stations designed for yarn fibre applications, including PET yarns; and Gravinet GP Light control systems. www.motan-colortronic.de Motan Hall 9 Booth B24 Erema Hall 9 Booth C05 Under wraps? Erema, supplier of recycling equipment from Ans- felden/Linz, Austria, which this year celebrates its 30-year anniversary, has announced the presentation of a new core technology at K 2013. The company is keeping eve- ryone guessing as regards the technological details which will only be unveiled at the Fair. www.erema.at Recycling heavily contaminated waste Starlinger will have two stands at K2013. In hall 9, Starlinger recycling technology will launch a new develop- ment, which allows the recycling of highly contaminated post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste such as washed household waste, agricultural films or simi- lar, as well as heavily printed material. The technology will also demonstrate very good compounding capabil- ity for upgrading the final product. During the exhibition a RecoStaruniversal 65 VAC will process highly printed PE film and demonstrate the high-quality melt degassing and cleansing capacity needed for high-quality regranu- late that can be used in different applications. Starlinger viscotec will stage the world premiere of the new Decon reactor in hall 9. A ViscoStar reactor will be set up in hall 16, where a video wall will also show the recently launched ViscoSheet PET sheet line. The new sheet line is able to process up to 100% recycled PET, virgin PET, and PIR (post-industrial regrind) at guaranteed IV levels, meeting FDA/EFSA levels for food-grade applications. www.starlinger.com Starlinger Hall 9 Booth D21 Hall 16 Booth B47 Market segmentation Italian company Piovan will be presenting “Indus- try Expertise” which is taking it towards industry sector specialisation. The company says that Industry Expertise refers to eight fields of application: packaging, automo- tive, industrial & electronics, building & construction, textile, furniture-toys-housewares, medical & pharmaceu- tical, recycling & compounds. Each of these fields can be further subdivided into additional specialised sectors. Packaging, for instance, includes sectors such as PET preforms, thermoforming sheets, cap production, vial blow- ing, blown film extrusion, plastic bands and so on. The consolidation of technological advantage, achieved through drying systems like Genesys and Modula, cooling systems like PETchiller and Ecosmart and the expansion into new fields of application with Ryng, Winfactory and other new products in the future, will form the backbone of Piovan’s development in coming years. www.piovan.com Piovan Hall 9 Booth C59