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Never-ending price increases, a still persistent difficult supply situation and rising ‘Force Majeure’ statements in the third quarter of 2022: The PVC industry is continuously confronted with several crisis – partly beginning to endanger existences in the plastics converting industry in Europe. The plastics converting industry is hard hit by the
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On 17 October 2022, Vanessa Malena, previously Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Engel Machinery Inc. in York, Pennsylvania, will take over as President of the North American headquarters of the Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solutions supplier Engel. Vanessa Malena started at Engel North America in 2017 as Key
Read moreGneuss and Colines have worked together to offer manufacturers of stretch film the possibility of using recycled polymer. Colines offers a special, proven cast & blown film extrusion process for handling recycled material, with the help of the Gneuss RSFgenius Melt Filtration System from Gneuss. Colines has already proven this process
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Ganesha Ecopet Private Limited, a subsidiary of Indian PET recycling pioneer Ganesha Ecosphere Ltd., has recently opened its new Warangal facility under the brand name Go Rewise where it produces rPET for filament yarns and fibres, as well as for food-grade packaging. The company has installed two Starlinger PET recycling lines
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IKV, hall 14 – booth C16 The Institute for Plastics Processing in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University (IKV) will show three processes in operation. The focus of the presentation will be on the topics of recyclate processing, circular economy and digitalisation. IKV will be presenting a batch variation tolerant
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Corvaglia, hall 12 – booth 36-02 Alongside the latest closure solutions, Corvaglia will unveil the “adaptive flex-band” injection mould technology. This technology is claimed to combine different – and in some cases conflicting – requirements of beverage bottlers and consumers. Above all, the technology is intended to offer advantages for tethered
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Coldjet, hall 11 – booth G12 Cleaning tools, moulds and surfaces is one of the most quality- and cost-critical manufacturing steps in the plastics industry. To help make this process more efficient, Cold Jet provides several effective dry ice solutions. They are claimed to enable soft, non-abrasive cleaning of delicate contours
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Kiefel, hall 3 – booth E90 Kiefel’s packaging specialists will be demonstrating a Speedformer KMD 78.2 speed producing a tray made from an rPET film with a thickness of 0.35 mm – light, stable and sustainable. The steel rule machine is just as at home in large volume production as it is
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PackSys Global, hall 3 – booth B90 PackSys Global will present 6 machines which have been manufactured in Switzerland, the FlexSeamer, FlexMaster, Box Butler, Prestige 45, TEM Plus and the CapLab. CapLab is an in-line, automatic integrated unit for testing the functionality of a closure’s tamper evident (TE) band. In optional
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Mold-Master, hall1 – booth C05 Mold Master will be showcasing new hot runner systems, controllers, and auxiliary injection units. These solutions includes comprehensive bio-resin/PCR processing solutions (including co-injection) for producing high-quality parts related to sustainable applications, a PET-Series 2-stage PET preform hot runner system and the Axiom TG single stage bottle
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Eisbär, hall 10 – booth G32 Every Eisbär dryer can handle throughputs between 250 and 5,000 kg/h. To be more attractive in regards of saving resources, the company creates material drying system without the need of any cool water supply. To keep wear parts as well as filters sustainable, Eisbär made them
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