Pipe, Profile & Tubing Extrusion
DuPont Sets Up Coex Tube and Pipe Tech Center
DuPont Engineering Polymers, Wilmington, Del., has created a new Center of Excellence for coextruded pipe and tubing at its European Technical Center in Geneva, Switzerland.
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First Direct Extrusion of Complex WPC Window Profiles
Wood-plastic composite (WPC) profiles are made by two main approaches.
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Medical Tubing: Tinier Than Ever And Much More Complex
Medical tubes are becoming ever smaller and thinner while adding new features like high-tech material combinations, more wire braiding/wrapping, and heat-shrink sheathing for strength and kink resistance.
Read MoreSMS GmbH to Sell Two Extrusion Machinery Groups
After selling its Battenfeld injection molding division to private investors in October, SMS GmbH in Germany announced another step in its withdrawal from the plastics machinery fi eld with plans to sell most of its extrusion business to Triton, a European private investment fi rm.
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Global Competition - Extrusion: Imports Threaten Some Films And Maybe Profiles, But Not Sheet
Global competition from lower-cost manufacturers, primarily in Asia, affects individual extrusion markets differently.
Read MoreTechnoplast Moves To Western Pa.
Technoplast International Inc., the Austrian maker of downstream cooling and calibration equipment for PVC profiles, recently moved its U.S. office from Bridgeport, N.J. to Cranberry, Pa., near Pittsburgh.
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NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.
Read MoreGeorgia Gulf to Buy Royal Group
Georgia Gulf Corp. in Atlanta, the third largest PVC producer in North America, agreed in mid-June to buy Royal Group Technologies Ltd., Woodbridge, Ont., a major producer of PVC building products, for $1.6 billion.
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