FoamPartner Receives 3M Service Award
FoamPartner Group succeeded in greatly increasing its supplier performance vis-à-vis 3M in 2018. The multi-tech conglomerate showed its appreciation by presenting its “Service Award 2018” to the global business unit “Specialties”. As a manufacturer, developer, and processor, the FoamPartner Group, headquartered in Wolfhausen (Canton of Zurich, Switzerland) supplies trade and industry worldwide with foams for […]
Mechanical Engineering Can Make A Huge Contribution To Circular Economy
In the VDMA interview series on the occasion of the K 2019, the latest belongs to the Peter Steinbeck from Windmöller & Hölscher Gruppe. The following text has directly been sent to us for publication. Plastics have been publicly discredited. What does that mean to a machine manufacturer? Peter Steinbeck: We are part of the value-added chain, […]
Full Process Overview of ENGEL At K 2019
At the K 2019 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, between October 16th and 23rd, ENGEL is starting a completely new chapter in the development of intelligent assistance with its iQ process observer. To date, assistance systems have been used to optimise individual steps in the injection moulding process, such as injection and cooling. But the new iQ […]
Interview With Karl-Heinz Bußbach, Global Business Director AZO CHEM/POLY
Titling: “There are no alternatives to recyclates”, VDMA has published another interview with Karl-Heinz Bußbach, Global the Business Director AZO CHEM/POLY. The highlights are: • Recycling increasingly relates to high-value final products; • Bio-based and compostable plastics are gaining ground; • Circular economy drives innovation ********************* In the EU strategy for plastics, recycling plays an important role. Have you already noticed […]
Spotlighting Lower Consumption Energy By ULTRA®Vacuum Resin Dryer
Using Less Than a Tenth of the Energy Needed by a New Desiccant Dryer to Dry Resin, the ULTRA® Low Energy Dryer Saves Thousands of Dollars in Energy Costs per Year ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A., July 23, 2019: The world’s only vacuum resin dryer designed for plastics processors has a new brand name that reflects its […]
Hope For Price Declining The Reason For Lower Trade Volumes
Today, Monday, July 22nd, 2019, was the day of supplying and the official offerings of various grades of polypropylene and PVC. Compared to the same day in last week, today’s trading volume fell by about 2.700 tons, which is a significant figure. The main reason for the near 3,000 tons decrease in trading volumes today […]
Increased Productivity by High-Speed Retrofit For LFT Pultrusion Lines
K 2019 is where ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH will be presenting the SOMOS RDF modular resin drying system for flexible stationary use without a central dry air generator. The system consists of autonomously operating units with their own Industry 4.0-capable controllers. Depending on requirements and desired throughput, the individual modules can be combined into a variable overall system […]
New Facility For Producing Separator Film For Lithium-Ion Batteries
Toray Industries has announced it will establish a new facility for producing separator film for lithium-ion batteries in Nyergesújfalu / Hungary. The new plant will be part of Toray Industries Hungary, which was established in April 2018, and is scheduled to start operating in July 2021. The Toray groups total battery separator film production capacity is […]
ICMA Develops A Turn-Key Direct Extrusion Line For Pharma Application
Icma San Giorgio SPA (Milan, Italy) has delivered in April a complete extrusion system to a major European pharma group. The new line extrudes several types of TPE foil for pharma applications. Gravimetric dosing units, a high-efficient co-rotating extruder ICMA MCM 60 and downstream equipment of a three-roll calender and fully automated winding unit make […]
