Blown film production boost with new die head from W&H

Comptoir National du Plastique (CNP) in Tunisia increases production of its blown film line by 20% with a retrofit from W&H

Сase studies

Improving tolerances by 30% and achieving faster startups with EDI® Automatic Die from Nordson

Nordson's Autoflex™ VI-RE die yields more uniform film, enhancing the printing and heat shrinking processes used for labels in packaging

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28.03.2025

Extrusion & Recycling Asia 1-2025

News

News 30.09.2020

ips: Rotary drum for underwater pelletizing

ips Pelletizing Solutions GmbH & Co. KG is supplying a newly developed rotary drum for the inline crystallisation of PET pellets

News 29.09.2020

Direct Pack hitting the first one-million-pound milestone on thermoforms

Direct Pack Recycling has a capacity to recycle 20,000 tons of PET plastic per year – and not only bottles but also mixed thermoformed PET containers

News 29.09.2020

KHS and Alpla develop returnable PET bottle

The 1.0-liter bottle’s high recyclate content of 35% has a very positive effect on its overall ecobalance

News 28.09.2020

Uptaking the renewable polypropylene in Japan

Borealis, Borouge and ITOCHU jointly announced that they have the strategic intent to jointly evaluate how to enable uptake of renewable polypropylene (PP) in the Japanese market

News 25.09.2020

Berry and Azek unite for plastic recycling

Berry’s mixed material, post-industrial scrap will be used for production of high-quality, sustainable building materials such as composite decking

News 23.09.2020

Sabic launches innovative TF-BOPE film for frozen food packaging

The solution is based on a mono web TF-BOPE film structure which has a thickness of only 20 micrometers

News 21.09.2020

ProAmpac to construct Collaboration & Innovation Center

The CIC, opening in the spring of 2021, will be a center for development, prototyping, and rapid evaluation of new packaging

News 21.09.2020

Thermo Fisher Scientific expands laboratory plastics production

The rapid increase in production related to COVID-19 testing has created great demand for laboratory plastics, including pipette and automation tips, storage tubes and plates, etc.

Articles

Sustainable and closed loop solutions of flame retarded plastics

The hffr-Up2Cycle project, lead by the German Fraunhofer Institute LBF, aims to increase the sustainability of plastic materials formulated with flame retardeds

Articles

The Power of Plastics! Green – Smart – Responsible

From 8 to 15 October 2025 K in Düsseldorf, completely booked up since May 2024, will again become the main stage for the international plastics and rubber industry

Case studies

Сase studies

X-ray technology in rubber hose extrusion in China

Since 2013, WOJUN (Guangzhou) Rubber Co. has integrated four SIKORA X-RAY 6000 PRO into its production lines to ensure quality control during the extrusion process

Сase studies

PVC extruder from battenfel-cincinnati convinces Bahrain Pipes

The key feature of the combination of parallel twin-screw extruder twinEX and co-extruder conEX is the permanently installed gravimetric dosing unit on the twinEX

Videos

Powerfil - Erema Laserfilter

With POWERFIL you can count on high-performance filters that can best master challenging filtration tasks

Videos

Why Brabender extruder liners are openable

Simon Hill (Area Sales Manager Western Europe) shows the advantages of the clamshell design of Brabender's twin-screw extruders