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dation of our good reputation as manu-

facturer with 100% Italian technology

and quality”– comments Piergianni

Milani, President of AMUT GROUP, after

the successful exhibition in Guangzhou

and his trip to China, Cambodia and Ma-

laysia together with Andrea Peretto,

Sales Manager in charge of the area.

TYCOPLAS Sdn Bhd, company leader in

Malaysia for disposable articles producti-

on, purchased the thermoforming ma-

chine exhibited in operation during Chi-

naplas: an ACF 820 model for a daily

output of 260.000 lunch boxes in PP.

Over 10 million euros is the turnover

amount achieved with confirmed deals

during and immediately after the China-

plas in May. “We have now a further evi-

dence that the efforts invested in our

R&D Department were on the right path

in developing a technology mainly devo-

ted to flexibility in production and to

high speed performances. K Show was

the international platform to firstly pre-

sent ACF, the last series of thermoform-

ing machine by AMUT-COMI, and the

new generation of winders for stretch

film cast lines. Chinaplas is the consoli-

Booming Sales in South East Asia

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Davis-Standard, LLC

www.davis-standard.com

Both labs support applications for Alter-

nate Polymer

, microbore tubing, multi-

lumen and catheter tubing, edotracheal

and tracheotomy tubing, radio opaque

tubing, bubble tube, taper tube, pipette

tubing and multi-layer tubing, among

others. Complete medical tubing sys-

tems support extruder outputs up to

315kg/hr (700 pounds per hour) and line

As an example of its extrusion techno-

logy, Davis-Standard exhibited an HPE-H

extruder for medical tubing applications

at Chinaplas 2017. The energy-efficient

HPE-H is compact in design, available for

a fast delivery, easy to maintain and one

of the company’s most widely used mo-

dels. It is available in 20mm (3/4-inch),

25mm (1-inch), 30mm (1 ¼-inch), 40mm

(1 ½-inch) and 45mm (1 ¾-inch) sizes for

processing versatility.

Davis-Standard continues to see strong

demand throughout Asia for feedscrews,

control systems, medical tubing techno-

logy, and its dsX™ product line for cast

film, blown film and packaging applicati-

ons. Davis-Standard’s regional presence

has continued to grow since opening Da-

vis-Standard (Suzhou) Plastics Packaging

Machinery Co., Ltd. in 2012. This facility

is Davis-Standard’s manufacturing base in

China and houses an R&D laboratory for

process development and trials.

“We’ve experienced growth across all

platforms in China, but the medical tub-

ing sector has been especially strong for

us,” said Sekaran Murugaiah, Davis-

Standard Vice President of Business De-

velopment, Asia. “Customers appreciate

our regional presence and the availability

of the medical tubing laboratory in Suz-

hou to test new resins and processes.

These R&D capabilities have been key in

ensuring customers in the region are

equipped to address market demands.”

The Suzhou lab features direct-drive

19mm and 24mm single screw extru-

ders, each with a polymer melt pump, a

sophisticated three-layer spiral flow tub-

ing die, PLC line control with data acqui-

sition, precision vacuum sizing tank for

both rigid and flexible products, closed

loop ID/OD control via an ultrasonic

gauging system, a servo controlled com-

bination puller/cutting system, and a

transport conveyer with single-zone air

eject. It also includes a single layer tubing

line designed specifically for the produc-

tion of FPVC tubing for IV & fluid delivery

applications. Products ranging in size

from 2mm OD to 8mm OD can be pro-

duced with an accuracy of +/- 50u at line

speeds up to 100mpm. Davis-Standard’s

facility in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, also

has a fully equipped medical tubing la-

boratory.

HPE Extruder and Promote Regional Capabilities at Chinaplas

speeds up to 240 mpm (800 feet per mi-

nute) for a range of materials including

PLA, PLLA, PEEK, FPVC, polyurethane,

nylon, PEBAX and FEP. Extruder options

are available depending on process and

application and engineered for a fast de-

livery and competitive pricing.

The energy-efficient HPE-H is compact in design, available for a fast delivery, easy

to maintain and one of Davis-Standard's most widely used models