Extrusion International USA 1-2020

5 Extrusion International 1/2020 In late March 2020 the world’s No. 1 trade fairs for wire, cable and tube, wire and Tube, will once again open their doors in Düsseldorf. What’s new about the two trade fairs? There are a number of newfea- tures at the industry highlights wire and Tube but also at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre proper. Friedrich-Georg Kehrer, Global Portfolio Director for Metals and Flow Technologies, tells us more in this interview. 40 ZwickRoell offers a wide range of possibilities for auto- mation inmaterials testing. Testing systems range from efficient automation of small series tests using collaborat- ing robots in the lab to fully automated testing laboratories that work around the clock. 37 With the new inline gauge ProfilControl 7 S Corrugated Tube developed by PIXARGUS it is now possible to inspect the complete wavy structure of corrugated tubing gaplessly. 48 38 With the Ultraplex 1000 UP fine impact mill, Hosokawa Alpine will show a versatile mill for the size reduction of soft materials to 3.5Mohs’ hardness at wire 2020 in Dus- seldorf, Germany. Dependent on the feedmaterial, the fine impact mill can be equipped simply and quickly with different, interchangeable grinding elements. 44 Modern insulation is a key to effective climate protection, and this also applies to window profiles in new and reno- vated buildings. BASF has developed an Ultradur ® that can be used for co-extrusion with PVC and is now avail- able with a significantly improved property profile. Only announced to the plastics industry in the run-up to K 2019, a COMPEO 88 compounder fromBUSS is already in industrial use. The first user is a multinational master- batchmanufacturer, which has been producing color masterbatches with this system since late October 2019. 34