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Custom-made extrusion lines for flexible hoses and profiles

Founded in 1977, Officina Meccanica Carlassara, which until the nineties has provided a mostly local market with a production for third parties, has had a very important change with the entry into the company of the actual owner Luigi Carlassara, who has introduced and approached to the existing business the production of extrusion lines for...

Dedicated lines for special applications

Operating in the plastics machinery market since 1975, today BFM is one of the main Italian players in the production of take-offs & winders for blown film lines (as partner of Luigi Bandera), flexographic printing units with central drum (up to 10 colours) and stack-type (2-4-6-8  colours) and automatic bagmaking machines. The company attended Plast 2018 with...

Machining of thermoformed plastics

A complete range of technological solutions for every process used in machining of thermoformed plastics was presented by Biesse at Plast 2018. Visitors have been able to experience the advanced technological innovation that has characterised the company in the woodworking industry for almost 50 years, now applied to the new business of...

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag to choose the Piovan Group as an advanced partner

In future, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag (hall 24, stand D162 at Plast 2018) will be working closer with the Piovan Group (hall 24, stand B71/C72) and its brands. The German-Japanese moulding machinery manufacturer has chosen the Italian specialist for downstream technology. Together they aim to develop and sale joint system solutions. As part of this decision, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag will offer a variety of Piovan...

Six Sepro models displayed at the Sverital stand

Six robots are exhibited by Sepro at Plast 2018 on the stand of its Italian distributor, Sverital (C61/D62, hall 22). A Sepro-Yaskawa 6X-70L 6-axis robot with Visual 3 control performs several important functions in an automation cell intended to demonstrate the integration of innovative technologies and products from...

Granulators to recovery waste from thermoforming

At Plast 2018, Rapid Granulator is introducing a new range of granulators designed specifically for in-line processing of skeletal waste from sheet and film thermoforming lines. The new patent-pending ThermoPRO Series - based on an already patented Rapid design - is available in various standard and low-built formats for handling scrap widths from 600 to...

New R&D centre and, soon, offices in North America and Asia

An Italian company with more than twenty years of experience in visual inspection machines, Doss Visual Solution (DVS) is based in Erbusco, near Brescia, where a new R&D department of 600 square metres has been added to the existing 1,200 square metres of offices and workshops, giving rise to a site employing about 60 people. At stand...

Continuous filter even more powerful

The ERF 350 continuous melt filter, which enables around 30% higher throughput than the predecessor ERF 250, is being displayed by Ettlinger at Plast 2018 (hall 15, C32). The filters in Ettlinger’s ERF series are used by recyclers and compounders to filter heavily contaminated polyolefins and polystyrenes. All ERF filters are equipped with a conical..

Ready for the changing industrial refrigeration

Strengthened by the research and experience of 50 years of activity, Frigosystem (hall 15, stand B82 at Plast 2018) fi nds itself well positioned by the request to increase energy effi ciency, imposed by the new European regulation Ecodesign 2018 in the fi eld of industrial refrigeration. The legislation, which came into force on January 1, requires compliance...

Recycling becomes upcycling

Twin-screw extruders from Coperion in Stuttgart play a key role in the global manufacture of high-quality compounds. In addition to their global lead position they have acquired an excellent reputation in recent years in markets where such compounds are made from recycled plastics. Here the combination of Corema technology from Erema and twin-screw...

At Plast 2018 with the Next Generation

Seventeen extruders in fifteen years is the order volume placed by the Italian profile manufacturer MPM based in Fratte di Santa Giustina (Padua). Since 2004, this manufacturer of special protective profiles from different thermoplastic materials for industrial applications and refrigeration field has seen steady growth and repeatedly...

Full “Power” in Milan

Over the last three years, Italy has developed into one of the most important markets for the Wittmann Group in Europe. This is why the Plast 2018 in Milan is also an important platform for the company (hall 22, stand B121-C122) to showcase innovative machinery and processes. In the area of injection moulding machines...

Turnkey solution for agricultural films

Specialised in winding and converting machines, Mondon (hall 15, stand C59 at Plast 2018) offers a turnkey solution to agricultural film producers. This unique full automatic solution can be applied for stretch or non-stretch film. The numerous advantages of both solutions are suitable for every films production line films...

Nova means… innovation

At Plast 2018, one of the world’s most important plastic processing events, Negri Bossi will officially launch a new platform Nova range of machines. The new solution of mid‐range machines replaces the Vector range of machines and is available in 700, 850 and 1150 tonnes, with injection capacities ranging from 2010 to 6107 cubic metre and...

Data exchange between injection moulding machines and MES

Euromap 77 is the first OPC UA based interface for plastics and rubber machinery. It will be used for the connection of injection moulding machines to central computers/MES. Euromap 77 has been released on May 4, 2018 and during the Euromap-press tour on May 8, 2018 at the NPE in Orlando machinery manufacturers demonstrated the...

From PET bottles to food packaging

From May 28 to 31, Amut and Erema invite guests to experience the closed material loop of PET first-hand. Washed post-consumer PET bottle flakes will be recycled live at the Amut headquarters in Novara, Italy, to make food contact grade thermoforming sheet in a direct process. This rPET sheet will be used at the Plast 2018 in Milan - which...

Two concurrent events with the Piovan Group

This year two events coincide for the Piovan Group, which will be exhibiting at both Plast (hall 24, stand B71/C72) and Ipack-Ima. The concurrence of the two shows is the ideal opportunity for offering the Italian market new products, new solutions and high-level engineering for both the plastics and the food processing worlds...

King Midas’ golden touch

Gold is the foremost symbol of wealth and power, of success and achievement, while being optimistic and positive, a colour that illuminates and enhances other things around it. Gold adds richness and warmth to anything, it makes everything precious, and to meet visitors at Plast 2018 (stand C31/D32, hall 13) WM Thermoforming Machines makes its...

A small and nimble ISBM for special PET bottles

At NPE 2018 (Orlando, Florida, May 7-11), Sipa, one of the world’s top-ranking suppliers of equipment for production of PET preforms and bottles, will show the latest version of its ECS SP injection-stretch-blow moulding (ISBM) system (booth S17085, in the Bottle Zone, on Level One of the South Hall). The company, headquartered in Vittorio Veneto (Italy) and with a major mould...

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