Extrusion

  • 14 October 2020

    Colines first ALLrollEX Nanolayer started up in Africa

    The manufacturer and distributor of packaging in South Africa Transpaco Specialised Films started its brand-new ALLrollEX 1500 57-Nanolayer cast line for stretch film production in their Johannesburg plant. The first Nanolayer line running in the continent sets a new benchmark for all of Africa. Colines can...
  • 14 October 2020

    A sheet coextrusion line from Amut in Egypt

    An Amut extrusion line for PS and PP sheets to be thermoformed has been installed at an Egyptian converter. The plant reaches over 700 kg/h of total output, and produces sheets with a 1,000 mm usable width and an ABC layers configuration with a thickness range of 0.2 to 2 mm....
  • 23 September 2020

    75 years of continuous compounding

    20 August 1945, the day graduate engineer Heinz List filed a patent for the principle of the continuous kneader, is regarded as this compounding technology's birthday. Convinced by the concept, Buss inaugurated the first kneader test center in 1948 and delivered the first compounding systems for PVC and polystyrene in 1950, by which time List had…
  • 15 September 2020

    Italian technological excellence for the launch of the Vega space vector

    On September 3, 2020, at 3.51 am Italian time, the Vega space vector, designed and manufactured in Italy by the Italian company Avio, based in Colleferro (Rome), has been successfully launched from the European base of Kourou (French Guyana). It is 30 metres high by 3 meters diameter and over 100 tons of pure Italian technology...