Technology

The Swiss manufacturer of thermoforming machines WM Wrapping Machinery has recently delivered a vacuum pressure forming machine with steel rule cutting and holes punching to De Ster company at their headquarter facility in Belgium. De Ster is a worldwide well known company specialized...

At NPE 2015 Sacmi will be presenting the new version of the 48-cavity CCM (Continuous Compression Moulding) for the production of CSD (Carbonated Soft Drink) caps, optimized to ensure a power consumption even lower than the previous versions. Able to achieve output rates of up to 2000 light caps per minute (for mineral waters), the machine is...

Plastiblow at NPE 2015 will be showing for the first time in North America a fully electric PB5E-DL double station machine in operation that will produce a 350-ml flat/oval personal care bottle in 4+4 cavity setup. The technical solutions adopted to achieve the servo-driven movements...

The testing of a complete coextrusion line for corrugated PC sheets has been scheduled for middle March at the headquarters of Union in San Vittore Olona (near Milan). The sheets will have a width of 1,100 mm and thicknesses varying from 0.8 to 1.2 mm.

At the Mecspe 2015 (Parma, Italy, March 26-28) Rampf will be showcasing its innovative solutions for gasketing, encapsulating, and bonding. The focus is on the fast curing two-component polymer gasket Raku-PUR Speed and the compact robot cell DC-RS250, which guarantee speed and precision...

Persico Automotive has developed EcoCover, a new spray skin process that achieves amazing results in a wide range of colours. It can even create faux stitching. During the EcoCover process, a release agent is first applied to the mould. Then, using in-mould coating, the paint is sprayed on, followed by a polyurethane...

A key milestone for the IPS (Injection Preform System) platform, this manufacturing solution that stands out on account of high reliability, high performance and user-friendliness: the already-successful IPS 220 - which has been on the market for 3 years - will be joined by the new IPS 400, previewed at Imola...

Developed by Frigosystem for industrial process cooling, ACE (Adiabatic Cooling Energy) is a new range of industrial air/water exchangers relying on the adiabatic principle. This cooling system relies on the physical principle by which the evaporation of water lowers the ambient air temperature. This principle, i.e. the adiabatic principle, allows…

A company does marketing to communicate and reaffirm its values to the world. However, marketing can get caught up in current trends and end up dressing up the company in fashionable garb, not always in a way that best suits it. What often happens in these cases is that the marketing effort no longer communicates the...

The short-circuit protection function integrated on Xtra power controllers from Gefran has recently obtained the international patent. Such a function protects the system and the power junctions in the device against transient current peaks and short-circuits without extra-rapid fuses or circuit breakers...

The Italian manufacturer of extrusion lines and extrusion heads Tecnomatic and the US company Puma Plastics Solutions (Texas), part of JDC Manufacturing, enter into a business partnership to pursue a common goal in the US market. This marks Tecnomatic official entrance into the world of extrusion in the...

The WiBa QuickLook app from Wittmann Battenfeld provides a very simple and comfortable way to check the status of injection molding machines and robots via Smartphone. A status request on injection molding machines from Wittmann Battenfeld and on Wittmann robots is now possible via smartphone...

On February 13, 2015 the type C standard EN 289:2014 on the safety requirements of compression and transfer moulding machines was published on the European Official Journal n. C 54 and has come into force. Such standard was studied by CEN/TC 145, whose presidency and secretariat have been managed...

Once again this year - in Parma (Italy) on February 25 to be precise - operators are offered a date with innovation in industrial automation at the third edition of B&R Innovations Day. Technical presentations, live demos, illustrious guests from the world of research and industry and an entire dedicated exhibition area are the...

At NPE 2015 (Orlando, March 23-27 ) Negri Bossi, in collaboration with its American subsidiary, will be exhibiting four working injection presses, and the emphasis will be on multimaterial moulding. Furthermore, all four machines will be equipped with a Sytrama robot. First, a 330-ton Vesta press will be equipped with...

A blow moulding machine Aspi150.2, equipped with 70-mm extruder and 2-litre accumulator head, will be displayed by the Italian company ST Soffiaggio Tecnica at NPE 2015 (Orlando, March 23-27), to demonstrate the technological level reached with such a range of machines, devoted to the 3D applications, in particular...

The Power of Converting: Goebel Schneid- und Wickelsysteme, IMS, and Rotomac will be exhibiting the finest and most innovative in slitter rewinding on one stand at ICE Europe (Munich, March 10-12). Goebel will be presenting its innovative, high-end slitter rewinder Xtraslit 2. This machine...

With its expansion programme, international profile and increased sales volumes, the Piovan group has consolidated its position as a worldwide market leader laying the ground work for further expansion in 2015. Bucking the international economic trends, the group based in Santa Maria di Sala (near Venice, Italy) closed 2014 with growing sales...

An open house event - running for thirteen days from February 16 to 28 at the headquarters of Union in San Vittore Olona (near Milan) - will provide the stage for a new line for the production of five-layer PET sheets in widths ranging from 850 to 1000 mm. This line will consist of a co-rotary twin-screw main extruder mod. ZP 92X/52D with four...

A leading provider of testing equipment designed to evaluate the mechanical properties of materials and components, Instron - a division of ITW Test and Measurement Italia, headquartered in Pianezza, near Turin, Italy - will be exhibiting at JEC 2015 (Paris, March 10-12) the new Advanced Video Extensometer (AVE2) that conforms...