Technology

Coperion has successfully launched operation of its new Recycling Innovation Center. In this high-tech test centre for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step - from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization - can be tested...

Quality, application flexibility and an approach that always puts the customer at the centre: this is the philosophy behind the synergistic collaboration between Gefran and Bausano that is constantly renewed thanks to the excellence that characterises the products of both companies, allowing them to meet the needs of a steady evolving market...

Two days dedicated by Arburg to artificial intelligence at its headquarters in Lossburg brought together 33 experts to discuss how automatic machine learning (AutoML) or neural networks (such as TabPFN) can be used to make predictions in academic and industrial research and simplify everyday work in...

The Microcell technology developed by Promix Solutions makes it possible to reduce by up to 20% material consumption in the extrusion of foams without altering their mechanical properties. A further 20-50% reduction in the weight of the final product is achieved by using atmospheric gases (CO2 and nitrogen) as blowing agents...

Sipa's participation in Cibustec (the trade fair dedicated to food and beverage technologies scheduled in Parma from 24 to 27 October) focuses on solutions for innovation in packaging design, production, filling and handling with particular regard to food applications...

At the Fakuma 2023 fair, Frigel Group will be exhibiting the latest process cooling solutions, designed especially for applications, among others, in the automotive, packaging, medical, chemical, pharmaceutical, household industries. Frigel’s lineup includes Microgel Syncro, the new machine-side unit that...

The TCM motorized test stands in combination with the DFE and DFS digital force gauges and the relative terminals from Chatillon are offered by DGTS (which, in addition to Chatillon, also represents Lloyd in Italy, both part of the Ametek group) to perform...

Bausano is strengthening its R&D department and reinventing the concept of innovation with the introduction of new analysis tools and doubling the space dedicated to testing. To this scope, the company provides a wide range of services through which customers can experience the company's quality in the design of their systems...

CMG Granulators is currently exhibiting the SL Series without screen at MSV International Engineering (Brno, 10-13 October), ALLpacK Indonesia (Jakarta, 11-14 October) and Fakuma (Friedrichshafen, 17-21 October). The SL granulators are designed to produce regrind with a homogeneous shape and...

Designed to wash and grind post-consumer film in commercial, post-logistics and agricultural applications, presorted by color and polymer, with more than 80 % stretch film, Sorema lines can reach an output of more than 10,000 tons/year. Merit for these results can be also attributed to the PR 2800 shredder by Previero, a solution that...

To help carbonated soft drink (CSD) packaging producers embrace material circularity, Sidel has launched StarLITE R - a 100% rPET bottle. Sidel’s signature StarLITE family is evolving to address the challenges associated with working with recycled content. StarLITE R allows CSD producers to...

At Fakuma 2023, which will take place from 17 to 21 October in Friedrichshafen (Germany), Oerlikon HRSflow will be focusing on hot runner systems that enable greater sustainability and efficiency in thermoplastic injection moulding. In addition to future-oriented automotive applications, the focus will be on...

Machine utilization is often difficult to predict and plastics processors need as much flexibility as possible with their equipment. Traditional financing models are not designed to adapt to the actual use of the machine due to fixed rates. Thanks to the new flexPay financing model from KraussMaffei, it is now possible...

Satisfaction at Moretto: the European Patent Office (EPO) definitively confirmed the uniqueness and exclusivity of the Dry Air system, patented by the company in 2005, but since then the subject of opposition by two competitors. After 18 years spent in the granting and opposition procedures, EPO has...

One of the relevant projects recently developed (and patented) by Baruffaldi Plastic Technology is represented by the SRM and IAM-S machines (both Primac branded) for joining the socket to the end of the pipe. Both machines can work inline after the cutting saw and offline. In the inline version, the...

The new high-capacity corrugator recently developed by Itib Machinery, that presents it at Plast 2023, is the fastest in the company's range, making it particularly suitable for the high-speed, no-compromise production of small-diameter pipes. The name FV32/112HP sums up all its main characteristics...

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes. In 2021, one of the Italy’s biggest recyclers of post-consumer PET bottles initiated a...

The Italian market is one of the Wittmann Group’s most important export markets. Consequently, the Plast Milan is a major platform for Wittmann to present its state-of-the-art technologies jointly with its local subsidiary, Wittmann Battenfeld Italia. Its second Italian subsidiary, Wittmann Digital, specializes in...

At Plast Engel will be demonstrating highly innovative applications and integrated solutions to make injection moulding more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable. For the benefit of a leaner and more resilient production. In particular, key pillars are the leveraging of...

Ready to return to Plast, ST BlowMoulding will be presenting its latest innovations and technologies at the important international trade fair to be held at Fiera Milano from 5 to 8 September. For over forty years, the company has been operating as a reliable supplier of large blow moulding machinery...