Extrusion International 6-2017

4 Extrusion International 6/2017 CONTENTS Firms in this issue 6 Imprint 7 industry news Calendar 8 Cost-effective wall thickness and eccentricity measurement 8 29th International Colloquium Plastics Technology 11 Maag Introduces New Facilities 11 Reifenhäuser Holding reconfigures its Management Board 12 NewManaging Director and new CTO at battenfeld-cincinnati Austria 13 KAMPF slitters producing successfully at I PAK 14 Alpha Packaging acquires Dutch plant 14 Guill Tool Launches In-House Rheology Lab 15 Klöckner Pentaplast introduces the kp i.center 16 AMUT GROUP @ Ecomondo 16 profile extrusion Upgrade opens up new markets 17 extrusion tooling Getting the Most from Your Extrusion Tooling 18 pipe coil packaging Pipe coils wrapped with stretch film 21 welding Perfect Motion for Perfect Welding 22 extrusion measurements Perfection in quality management as basis for highest reliability 24 anniversary USA facility established 40 years ago 26 Production of PET scheet Available now! 28 pharmaceutical packaging CCIT technologies for pharmaceutical packaging 29 interview IPF Japan 2017: Focus on Industry 4.0 30 Fakuma 2017 Top Marks in All Categories 32 High-performance solutions 34 The Masterbatch XXperience 35 Economical vacuum solutions for plastics processing 36 Batch dosing units and resin dryers 37 Pelletizing is in our DNA 38