Technology

Fort Collins, Colorado. The company OtterBox, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, was the first to use the brand new Stratasys 3D J750 printer to produce its personalised covers for various brands of mobile phones. Unveiled before the press at OtterBox itself on...

Primex Plastics Corporation, based in Richmond (Indiana, Usa) and founded in 1965, is a company which manufactures extruded plastic sheets and roll products for thermoforming, building and printing. With facilities in five States from coast to coast and in the United Kingdom, it is one of the largest plastic sheet producers in the US...

In 1996 Under Armour broke into the athletic market by reinventing the humble t-shirt. Now a powerhouse brand, Under Armour is pushing the boundaries on high-performance athletic gear. So as the company approached its 20th anniversary, the UA innovation team looked to up the ante on the brand’s performance training footwear. The team wanted...

On 15 March, Arburg welcomed customers from around the world at the international opening of its new assembly hall. A major surprise was prepared for the roughly 550 guests at this event in the form of the spectacular world premiere of the new electric Golden Electric machine series. The highlights of the series were presented by the...

A plastics processor has recently ordered a line featuring exactly the details which Polyrema wants to present in the run-up to the plastics trade fair K 2016 in Düsseldorf. The single-layer ("mono") blown film line was extensively tested under production conditions: HDPE film and a biodegradable film (from Basf resin) were produced...

The development and the optimization of the coolers of mixing plants is the latest innovation launched by Plas Mec and has been welcomed with great interest. Thanks to Plas Mec, today it is a straightforward task to cool more than 8 batches per hour of U-PVC from 120°C to 40°C...

The European Thermoforming Division (ETD) of the SPE celebrates 20 years of excellence in serving the European thermoforming industry and this milestone has been marked at the 10th thermoforming conference held in Sitges (Barcelona) on March 10 and 11. The conference, which hosted about 250 participants, was entitled...

Iran’s largest producers of PET preforms is banking on Sipa in its latest round of expansion. Khosh Form, which has operations in the cities of Mashhad (Khosh Form Toos) and Qazvin (Khosh Form Caspian), has, other than 10 different Husky machines, 7 XForm 500 preform injection molding system at both locations, all of them running with 96-cavity…

Nowadays we hear a lot about 3D printers, which are also widely used: the 3D printer represents the latest frontier of the global manufacturing industry, and while it can certainly be said to have been reached, there remains much to explore. Perhaps surprisingly, the 3D is 30 years old: indeed, 11 March 1986 was the day that saw the publication of…

On January 29 this year, the manufacturer FB Balzanelli was described, in an article published in “Il Sole 24 Ore” (Italian daily newspaper of economic information) as a top Italian company. Reference was also made to its latest achievement: machine model FBML7 5200, designed and created specifically for the winding of...

Manufacturer of moulds for thermoplastics and assembly machines, Gefit recently developed a 48-cavity mould for coffee capsules demonstrates. Coffee capsules have conquered the taste and the favour of the European consumers, so that their use becomes every day higher, according to the frantic pace that modern market...

The common agreement between Athena Automation (Vaughan, Ontario) and Sipa (Vittorio Veneto, Italy), involving injection moulding systems for PET preforms, has come to an end. The two companies began a formal collaboration in late 2012 on equipment based around small and medium-sized injection moulding machines (with clamp forces of...

A framework agreement has been recently signed by Wittmann Battenfeld and Hayco. The agreement covers the manufacture of SmartPower and MacroPower series to Hayco in the coming 5-10 years. Hayco with headquarters in Hong Kong is a manufacturer of modern household products...

Rodolfo Comerio has developed two enormous calenders, among the largest ever built worldwide, for the lamination of thermoplastic resins and bonding with special materials. One features 4 and the other 5 cylinders (each with a diameter of 870 mm) and they both have a 5,000 mm working table. Each of these 30-ton calenders is over 8 m long...

The US company Moog and IIT, (Italian Institute of Technology) announced that they signed an agreement for the creation of a new joint lab - Moog@IIT - focusing on the development of next-generation actuation and control technologies for autonomous robots. IIT and Moog will work together over the next three years to develop the required…

This year sees Bausano & Figli reaching the significant landmark of 70 years in business. It was indeed 1946 when Clemente Bausano founded Costruzioni Meccaniche Clemente Bausano in Rivarolo Canavese, just outside Turin - the same company that is now an established name, at global level, in the construction of equipment and lines for...

Among the six finalists of the MD&M West Innovation Prize, a contest dedicated to innovation in the medical sector, there is also an Italian manufacturer, Gimac, partner of the American company Syneo in the development of a fully automated system for the coating, during the extrusion process, of cable guides for the medical industry...

600 visitors from Italy and abroad (mainly from Russia and eastern European countries), 1,600 square metres of exhibition space occupied by around 250 auxiliary systems, one injection moulding machines and two running extrusion lines for bubble film, one of which was particularly large. These are some key data summarising Moretto ExpoTech...

The latest achievement at Gefit headquarter is an assembly cell for a product made of two components, the first made of PC and the second one of soft PVC. The product is a part of the kit for blood transfusions currently used in hospitals. Accuracy, reliability, special care even for the apparently less important details are the main...

A double stage line for lamination by extrusion with a length of 32 metres was recently presented by Amut Dolci Bielloni at its plant in Biassono (Monza Brianza, Italy). The line is designed for the production of various types of paper and cardboard coated with polythene, and/or laminated with alufoil. The line has a width of up to 1750 mm...