Extrusion International 5-2018

4 Extrusion International 5/2018 CONTENTS Firms in this issue 6 Imprint 7 Editorial “... take a look at the upcoming FAKUMA” 8 industry news 11-25 FAKUMA 2018 Preview 26-53 Trade Fair for Everyone 27 Friul Filiere: A new downstream to celebrate its 40th anniversary 28 Gneuss: Further Development of Rotary Filter for Plastic Melts 30 Getecha: Innovative granulators - Individualisation is the key 32 Maag: From raw material production through to recycling systems 34 Gamma Meccanica: The growing success of the GM Tandem lines produced 36 Brabender Technologie: When speed matters: Easy Change version of FlexWall ® Plus 37 SIKORA: Premiere of the PURITY CONCEPT V for optical offline inspection and analysis of plastic material 38 DREYPLAS: Unique UHMW-PE can be processed directly in injection moulding and extrusion 40 plasticWOOD: The green concept for extrusion and injection molding 41 FEDDEM: More than just extruders 42 WIWOX: Cleaning concepts for plastics production 43 FB BALZANELLI: Automatic coiler for PE presure pipes up to 10” (250 mm) 44 Moretto: Concept of Efficiency 4.0 45 AKRO-PLASTIC: Focusing on plastic-metal composites and alternatives to PA 6.6 for lightweight construction 48 FKuR: Heat-resistant PLA compounds and versatile bioplastics for extrusion, injection molding and thermoforming 49 Ettlinger: Melt filtration in challenging applications, smaller screen size for PET recycling 50 PIOVAN GROUP: Features from Piovan, Aquatech and Fdm brands 52 Exhibitor Notes 54 + 55 Extrusion Tooling Flow Dynamics of Extrusion Tooling 56 Film extrusion Die Heads will be fit again 58 Measuring and controlling An interview with Philipp G. Weber, Hch. Kündig & Cie. AG: “We want to make sure it’s our customers that come back to us and not our products.” 60 Meaning of “measuring rate”, “averaging” and “accuracy” when investing in a measuring device 64 Pipes and profiles periphery Primac once again hits the mark 62 Trade Fairs CHINAPLAS 2019 Paves the Way to Plastics’ Future 66