1:27 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives, Bottle & Cap Decoration
Additives

Penn Color launches line of additives supporting sustainable packaging

For brand owners and packaging converters looking for sustainable packaging solutions, Penn Color, a leading global producer of color and additive masterbatches has launched a line of additives that improve the life cycle inventory (LCI) by allowing for higher levels of recycled PET ...
1:20 min Recycling & Compounding, Global themes, Regions, …
Recycling

Plastics recycling grows in Europe

The installed capacity for recycling flexible polyethylene (PE: PE-LD, PE-LLD PE-MD & PE-HD) has been increasing significantly over the last years. Since 2015, the installed capacity for recycling flexible PE has grown approximately from 1.5 M tonnes per year to 2.3 M tonnes per ...
0:59 min Preform moulding, Injection moulding systems, Closure moulds

Digital transformation at the plastics processing

For ARBURG, the focus will be on "Connectivity" at this year's Hannover Messe. The company will demonstrate the injection moulding of elastic tension straps "on demand", the Freeformer for additive manufacturing and Industry 4.0 components for the "smart ...
2:44 min PET recycling systems
Strand pelletizing systems

ips supplies underwater strand pelletizing system to Märkische Faser GmbH in Premnitz/Germany

In December 2017, the 1000th system left the production hall at ips Intelligent ...
1:32 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Bottle & Cap Decoration

Unique metallic shine for 3D printing filaments

Exclusive cooperation between the companies Schlenk, Herz and Gabriel-ChemieAn intrinsic metallic shine can now also be achieved in the 3D printing process, now also available as a PETG filament
1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling

Individual plastics coloring for highest standards

Masterbatches, pigment mixtures, liquid dyes and coloring pastes: for more than 65 years Finke has provided innovative coloring solutions and supported users from design stage to final product.
0:56 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Sheets & Films
A sheet line for 2mm-thick PET sheet

SML recently unveiled an innovative extrusion line for the production of PET sheet in a thickness range of up to 2mm

The importance of PET as a raw material for countless thermoforming applications is clearlyon the rise. Moreover, the market is not only demanding more environmentally acceptable rawmaterials, which should offer a high degree of recyclability (as PET does), but also thicker ...
3:30 min Injection moulding systems, Closure moulds, Applications & Operations

Maximising efficiency and quality potential

The injection moulding machine manufacturer, based in Austria and with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Vietnam, enables customers to overcome their specific challenges and secure competitive advantages by means of custom-made system solutions – and supplying system solutions from a ...
2:10 min Two step blow moulding systems

555th KHS InnoPET Blomax goes to Japanese food group Meiji

InnoPET Blomax Series IV stretch blow molder successful worldwide for many ...
1:46 min Applications & Operations, Preform moulding

Husky to showcase a solution for every application at Plastindia 2018

Husky Injection Molding Systems, a leading industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, today announced that it will exhibit at Plastindia 2018 (February 7-12). At the show Husky will feature how its diverse range of solutions for the beverage, food, medical, ...