Extrusion International 1-2025

19 Extrusion International 1/2025 converted to LED technology with motion detectors. In 2022, solar modules with an output of 45 kW/peak were installed on the roof and e-charging points were installed. This generates around 50% of the required electrical energy. Apart from the day-to-day business, Motan Color- tronic Ltd was and is heavily involved in the plastics in- dustry as well as in the social environment of Chester- eld. Motan Colortronic Ltd has been honoured several times for its services to the plastics industry. Among oth- er things, Erwin Miller was honoured with the ‘Unsung Hero’ award at the Plastics Innovation Awards (PIA) in 2017 for his achievements. In 2024, Karl Miller was named one of the 75 most in- uential people in the UK plastics industry. As part of Interplas' 75th anniversary celebrations, 75 individuals were honoured who were considered particularly valuable by the industry itself for their con- tribution to the development of the sector. A special honour was bestowed on Erwin Miller post- humously in 2022: in recognition of his support, the newly built training ground in Hasland was renamed the Erwin Training Ground in memory of the late Erwin Miller. After 50 years Motan Colortronic Ltd now has around 30 employees and represents motan, swift by motan and colortronic as well as Regloplas, Herbold, Sesotec and Indusrial Frigo. Motan Colortronic UK Ltd www.motan-colortronic.co.uk Erwin Miller, founder and chairman of Chester eld-based Motan Colortronic, has been named winner of the PIA 2017 Unsung Hero Awards for his contribution to the plastics industry over the last 50 years 10-Day Extrusion Tooling Program Launched Guill Tool has announced its 10-day program. This program applies to eligible tips and dies that will be shipped within 10 business days of receiving the pur- chase order from the customer. The company’s quality precision tips and dies have been manufactured in the U.S. for 62 years. All Guill extrusion tools are produced using certi ed and docu - mented quality steel material speci cally quali ed for the polymer to be extruded. Furthermore, Guill designs tips and dies for any application the customer needs. These feature multi-lumen, stripe, multiple stripe, wire and cable, hose, pipe, tube, ber optic, blown lm, cor - rugated tube and pro le. Dies include face seal, shoul - dered, snap together, oating, die plates, interchange - able die plate and custom dies. Available tips include single and multi-lumen, threaded style, snap together, xed center shoulder, pro le, tapered style and custom. Guill proudly manufactures its products in the U.S. under the quality standards of ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100:2016. For more details: www.guill.com/tooling-cell Guill Tool & Engineering Tom Baldock, Sales Manager, Extrusion tbaldock@guill.com Tooling cell Close-up of tips and dies