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impressed customers that eight or-
ders have already been placed. This
is an added incentive for the ma-
chine manufacturer to offer this type
of technology for 5-, 7- and 9-layer
feedblocks in future as well.
battenfeld-cincinnati has seldom had
so many new extruders and machine
components on show at its booth.
Apart from its new solEX NG single
screw extruder series, the conEX NG
twin screw series for PVC pipe and
profile production also celebrated its
premiere. These new extruders, too,
were created by a complete re-de-
sign of the processing unit: a longer
pre-heating zone and an optimized
screw geometry ensure higher out-
puts with significantly reduced shear
stress and machine wear. All extrud-
ers are easy to operate, thanks to
the new BCtouch UX control system,
featuring clarity and easy handling,
which customers could experience
first hand directly at the booth.
“The very positive response shows
that our motto ‘driven by in-nova-
tion’ and constant work on new, in-
novative solutions has paid off. We
will keep this up and will present an
even wider range of new technologi-
cal solutions both in the coming years
and at the K 2019”, is how Gerold
Schley expresses his outlook for the
future. At the same time, the ma-
chine manufacturer is strengthening
its sales and service team to enable it
to act even faster and move closer to
its customer.
change system operates fully au-
tomatically across a wide range of
diam-eters and allows not only a
change of external diameters, but
also of pipe wall thickness during
running production. It is per-fectly
synchronized from pipe head to cut-
ting unit, so that di-mension change
can be started by the push of a single
button. FDC lines cover an enormous
bandwidth of diameters, ranging
from 90 to 630 mm, which is currently
unique on the market. The FDC pipe
dies with an adjustable melt gap are
available for diameters of up to 1,200
mm, and FDC vacuum tanks, cooling
tanks, haul-offs and cutting devices
for diameters of up to 1,000 mm.
“At this year’s K, the interest in our
solutions not only for pipe produc-
tion but also for the packaging indus-
try was particularly strong”, Gerold
Schley continues. With its XXL-Multi-
Touch roll stack, the machine manu-
facturer presented an ideal solution
for making top-quality, stress-free
sheet for packaging at high speeds of
more than 110 m/min and with enor-
mous outputs of up to 3,300 kg/h
(PET) and 2,700 kg/h (PP). The Multi-
Touch roll stacks combined with the
proven high-speed extruders are the
ideal equipment for high-speed ther-
moforming sheet extrusion. batten-
feld-cincinnati also offers STARex-
truders, a special machine series for
PET processing.
An absolute novelty in the batten-
feld-cincinnati product portfolio is a
special 3-layer feedblock for thermo-
forming sheet production, which is
completely manufactured in-house
in Bad Oeynhausen (Germany). The
concept of using a pin with a milled
distributor curve to achieve an op-
timal layer thickness distribution so
View of the FDC (fast dimension change) line arrangement, from the left: solEX NG extruder, FDC pipe die, FDC calibration sleeve, FDC
vacuum tank and FDC vacuum sealing
The XXL version of the Multi-Touch roll
stack on display at the booth was delivered
directly to a customer after the K
battenfeld-cincinnati’s new feedblock
for standard applications in thermoforming
sheet extrusion