Wednesday, April 18, 2018

On April 9, Frigel and Matsui Technologies India Limited (MTIL, a joint venture company of Matsui Japan and Samvardhana Motherson Group) announced a 50:50 joint venture to meet increasing demand for cooling solutions in the fast-growing plastics & beverage, and Oil & Gas industries in India. The new joint venture is...

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Extrusion made easy by Macchi

In order to take full advantage of the contemporary presence of the technologies belonging to the flexible packaging value chain, since Plast 2018 will take place together with Ipack-Ima, MeatTech, Print4All and Intralogistica Italia within The Innovation Alliance, at Plast, Macchi will display and run a 5 layers POD line which, fully complying with the rallying cry of...

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Comerio Ercole’s calenders at Plast 2018

At Plast 2018, Comerio Ercole will present, together with its subsidiary CKA, some important technological innovations recently developed for calendering machines and plants for plastics processing. In particular, the company will unveil Flexi, a multi-purpose calender with high-precision hydraulic roll positioning...

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Kistler launches combined pressure and temperature sensor for composite moulding

Kistler Instruments has produced a combined pressure and temperature sensor specifically to support automated resin transfer (RTM) and wet moulding...

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Meccanoplastica unveils JET 85

The latest development from Meccanoplastica is JET 85, a fully electric injection blow moulding machine designed for the production of small containers with closures that must be manufactured to very tight tolerances, and thus demand extremely precise neck finishing. JET 85 is a three-station injection blow moulding machine with a trigger bar...

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Maag ensures quality in challenging applications

Worldwide leading manufacturer of gear pumps, pelletizing and filtration systems, and pulverizers for demanding applications in the plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries, Maag, will be exhibiting at the upcoming Plast 2018, to be held in Milan from May 29 to June 1, 2018, showcasing a variety of its market-leading products and...

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Four robots by Star Automation Europe on display at Plast 2018

Plast 2018 has been chosen by Star Automation Europe, as they often did in the past, to launch several novelties, and in particular, the new ZXW-VI robots series. The two ZXW-1000VI and ZXW-1600VI models receive the baton of Fx series, introducing numerous enhancements, aiming above all to operation speed...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Engel presents solutions for consistent quality and process

Consistent quality, permanent availability, maximum output - it takes more than reliable machines to securely achieve these criteria of success. The perfect interplay between injection moulding machine and process technology, automation and periphery, digitalisation and networking is what allows plastics processors to fully utilise efficiency...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Gneuss in Milan with technologies for extruding, filtering and measuring

The Gneuss Processing Unit (GPU) has been available for several years now and has proven itself for the reprocessing of bulky PET waste such as post-consumer bottle flake and industrial waste from fiber and film manufacture without pre-drying. A Gneuss Processing Unit consists of a Gneuss MRS extruder with its unmatched devolatilization...