Extrusion International 1-2017

First compounding industry exhibition 17 Brazil’s economy puts its hopes in 2017 18 Maag Hosts Open House At Its First India Service Center 18 New High Output Extruders and Sheet Extrusion Lines 19 Industry 4.0 Step by step into the future 20 A step closer to Industry 4.0 21 Innovative control system for highly efficient machine operation 22 Compounding TEX25 α III high-performance extruder for demanding R&D in compounding 24 The compact 26.5 mm diameter corotating twin-screw extruder for prod- uct development of various compounds and masterbatches in engineer- ing and high performance thermoplastics. Page 24 The new EDI™ Ultraflow™ V-T feedblock has separate devices for fine-tuning layer stability and thickness uniformity, and both are capable of being adjusted without stopping production. Page 34 Measurement RAYEX ® S – X-Ray Technology for Single and Multilayer Products 25 Technologies for the measurement 26 PC16S ® – wave transmission sensor 30 Periphery High-performance mixer aspiration 31 New feedblock fine-tunes each layer 34 Extrusion technology Several orders placed directly 32