Extrusion International 1-2017

33 Extrusion International 1/2017 impressed customers that eight or- ders have already been placed. This is an added incentive for the ma- chine manufacturer to offer this type of technology for 5-, 7- and 9-layer feedblocks in future as well. battenfeld-cincinnati has seldom had so many new extruders and machine components on show at its booth. Apart from its new solEX NG single screw extruder series, the conEX NG twin screw series for PVC pipe and profile production also celebrated its premiere. These new extruders, too, were created by a complete re-de- sign of the processing unit: a longer pre-heating zone and an optimized screw geometry ensure higher out- puts with significantly reduced shear stress and machine wear. All extrud- ers are easy to operate, thanks to the new BCtouch UX control system, featuring clarity and easy handling, which customers could experience first hand directly at the booth. “The very positive response shows that our motto ‘driven by in-nova- tion’ and constant work on new, in- novative solutions has paid off. We will keep this up and will present an even wider range of new technologi- cal solutions both in the coming years and at the K 2019”, is how Gerold Schley expresses his outlook for the future. At the same time, the ma- chine manufacturer is strengthening its sales and service team to enable it to act even faster and move closer to its customer. change system operates fully au- tomatically across a wide range of diam-eters and allows not only a change of external diameters, but also of pipe wall thickness during running production. It is per-fectly synchronized from pipe head to cut- ting unit, so that di-mension change can be started by the push of a single button. FDC lines cover an enormous bandwidth of diameters, ranging from 90 to 630 mm, which is currently unique on the market. The FDC pipe dies with an adjustable melt gap are available for diameters of up to 1,200 mm, and FDC vacuum tanks, cooling tanks, haul-offs and cutting devices for diameters of up to 1,000 mm. “At this year’s K, the interest in our solutions not only for pipe produc- tion but also for the packaging indus- try was particularly strong”, Gerold Schley continues. With its XXL-Multi- Touch roll stack, the machine manu- facturer presented an ideal solution for making top-quality, stress-free sheet for packaging at high speeds of more than 110 m/min and with enor- mous outputs of up to 3,300 kg/h (PET) and 2,700 kg/h (PP). The Multi- Touch roll stacks combined with the proven high-speed extruders are the ideal equipment for high-speed ther- moforming sheet extrusion. batten- feld-cincinnati also offers STARex- truders, a special machine series for PET processing. An absolute novelty in the batten- feld-cincinnati product portfolio is a special 3-layer feedblock for thermo- forming sheet production, which is completely manufactured in-house in Bad Oeynhausen (Germany). The concept of using a pin with a milled distributor curve to achieve an op- timal layer thickness distribution so www.battenfeld-cincinnati.com View of the FDC (fast dimension change) line arrangement, from the left: solEX NG extruder, FDC pipe die, FDC calibration sleeve, FDC vacuum tank and FDC vacuum sealing The XXL version of the Multi-Touch roll stack on display at the booth was delivered directly to a customer after the K battenfeld-cincinnati’s new feedblock for standard applications in thermoforming sheet extrusion