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Film Processor Automates Complex Resin Management, Blending & Distribution System
Polipak of Poland moves to BlendSave system to support sustainability and Industry 4.0 objectives.
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Solve Processing Problems, Learn Tricks of the Trade: Register Now for Extrusion 2022
Tune into technical presentations that can help make you more money, and mingle with the world’s foremost authorities on extrusion processing.
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Teel Adding Capacity, Bumping Pay for Hourly Workers
Teel growing to meet market demand, meaning increased employment opportunities for the area.
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ENTEK Gets Government Funding to Bolster Battery-Separator Production
Firm has produced ‘wet-process’ films in Oregon for decades.
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Sustainability Among the Many Niches at Niche Polymer
Founded in 1987, Niche Polymer continues to grow—both organically and through acquisition—by focusing its product-development efforts on ever-changing market needs. Adding value to both industrial and post-consumer scrap is a growing part of this effort.
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Novel System Produces Color on Demand
Ampacet’s FluxQF technology features a quick-dispersion universal carrier with novel machinery that provides automated color blending in quantities down to 50 lb.
Read MoreHosokawa Alpine Touts Move to Not Run Film Line at K
Blown film machine builder to instead “present its blown film technology in a truly sustainable way.”
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Green’s the Theme in Extrusion/Compounding
The drive toward circular economy is requiring processors to make more use of PCR. Machine builders at K—across all extrusion processes—will be highlighting innovations to help them do just that.
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Young Stretch-Film Processor Bets on Nanolayers
Going up against companies with as much as double its capacity, young stretch-film processor Zummit believes that new technology — notably 59-nanolayer films — will give it a competitive edge.
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DeDuster Systems Cleans Up rPET Sheet
rPlanet cut its gel count drastically—allowing it to sell more sheet at prime prices—after installing a DeDuster system.
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Variable-Diameter Air Ring Cools Film Above Frost Line
Tower-mounted adjustable ring adds cooling so that blown film can run at optimum line speeds with structures having soft inner skin layers that tend to block.
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Crosslinking Process Promises Thinner, Higher-Performance PE Films
Technology combines UV curing system with photo initiator promoter masterbatch.
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