Technology

Under the global banner of “Your Free Choice in Robots”, Sepro Robotique exhibits at Fakuma 2014 a total of fourteen robots. Nine are demonstrated on the Sepro stand and five in the booths of injection-molding machine manufacturers. Together, they represent one of the industry’s most complete ranges of...

Husky Injection Molding Systems continues to make significant investments to support the strong growth of its hot runners and controllers customers. The company established its hot runners and controllers business as a strategic priority early in 2013 and is focused on developing innovative products and services that solve customers’ key...

The German firm Inoex turned to the Italian manufacturer Tecnomatic for the supply of extruders and extruder heads to equip their Advantage lines for pipe diameters of up to 1000 mm. The two companies have already presented a line equipped with a Vega extruder and a Venus 630 head for pipes with diameters from 280 to 500 mm to major European…

The whole range of the Telia Gearless flexographic printing machines developed by Bielloni Converting can be now equipped on request with a new enhanced drying tunnel featuring an innovative hot air recirculation and recovery system. This solution allows energy savings up to 30% in addition to ensuring excellent results...

An extrusion line for HDPE dimpled membrane with net width of 4 meters has been recently manufactured ​​by Amut for a major Russian producer of building materials. HDPE dimpled membranes are widely used for the protection and drainage of underground walls, as well as for the protection and ventilation of waterproofing...

Excluding raw materials, the most significant costs in rotational moulding are labour (approx 55% of total costs), energy (22%) and technical obsolescence (19%). In response to this assessment, Polivinil Rotomachinery continues to invest in research & development, because the most advanced markets, those...

The "Smart Plastic" event, organised by Campetella Robotic Center at its headquarters in Montecassiano (near Macerata, Italy) on September 19 and 20, were even more successful than expected: it consisted of two days dedicated to the most advanced handling technologies for injection moulding...

The plenary meeting of the European Technical Committee CEN/TC 145 (whose secretariat as well as chairmanship are managed by Assocomaplast) took place in Milan on September 16 and 17. Delegates from French, German, Italian, Swiss and the UK standardization bodies attended the meeting...

On September 26 and 27, at the headquarters of Reco Tech in Camnago Faloppio (near Como, Italy), IMG is holding the Negawatt Days event to unveil its new Zafhir Venus II all-electric injection moulding machine. Negawatt, as the manufacturer is keen to point out, is not a spelling mistake, but instead a...

Avery Dennison has expanded its European waste disposal programme by appointing Tramonto Antonio, an environmental service provider, as its partner in Northern Italy. The Vergiate, Lombardy-based company has joined a group of designated partners that collect and process waste from label products, enabling converters and brand...

The ready-to-use and fully programmable GCube Preforma automation system has been developed by Gefran in order to meet the requirements of various automation architectures, and particularly the needs of companies manufacturing plastic processing and heat treatment machinery. Designed to combine...

The new EcoPlus machines are offered by Impianti OMS as a particularly convenient high-pressure PUR foaming solution for small converters and users of low-pressure machines. These solutions are space-saving, reliable, easy to use and maintain, environmentally friendly and low-cost, and cover process capacities...

Icma San Giorgio (headquartered in San Giorgio su Legnano, near Milan, Italy) has designed and installed two complete compounding systems at the facility of a major global appliance manufacturer. The new lines produce mineral-filled compounds at high volume through high-efficiency corotating extruders with...

On 18-19 September, Negri Bossi presents the VH 7000 from its Bi-Power line at the Sacmi facility in Imola (province of Bologna). This is the largest model in the series of dual platen presses and, at 7,000 tons, it is among the largest of its kind. Last spring, Sacmi sold its entire plastics division to the ...

Three of FB Balzanelli’s new Strap & Stretch winding machines have been supplied to a processor who wanted to find a way of better protecting and securing its pipe coils. Indeed, these, once packaged, have to make long journeys during which they are exposed to all types of weather, to dust and to UV rays, and it...

“Smart Plastic” is the title of a two-day open-house event being organised by Campetella at its headquarters in Montecassiano, in the province of Macerata (Italy). The purpose of the event, which is due to take place on September 19 and 20 and is being carried out in cooperation with the manufacturer of injection moulding machines Toyo, is to...

Upon proposal of the Italian machinery manufacturers, the European umbrella association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers (Euromap) is planning to introduce Recommendation n. 90: an energy label for plastics and rubber machinery, which will come into force on October 1, 2014...

VisualRHEO is a versatile software package dedicated to managing rheological tests and analysing data and is a fundamental part of Instron Ceast SmartRheo single- and twin-bore capillary rheometer systems, manufactured by ITW Test and Measurement Italia. When combined these products are designed to investigate the...

The latest new development at Rivi Magnetics is called Force Evaluation System (FES), and its function is to constantly monitor the working cycle of injection moulding machines for plastic materials. Therefore, it intervenes dynamically and is developed to operate with a touchscreen operator interface and tablet. It can be connected...

A leading European processor recently purchased a Bausano extrusion line for the manufacturing of PVC doors and windows. The line is equipped with a 12 m long calibration bench belonging to the Plus range, and with the Energy Saving system, which allows full exploitation of the production capacity offered by the new...