The dynamic Italian company Rotoflux has been producing rotary joints for over 20 years and has continuously grown until it has reached an important position among the manufacturers world leaders. The complete range of rotary unions Rotoflux includes now the brand new G Series, developed...
This year’s Erema Discovery Day - now well known throughout the industry - was held at the Erema headquarters in Ansfelden (Austria) on June 1, 2016. Over 250 international customers and interested guests once again found the technological edge of the Austrian global market leader convincing this year as Erema, in collaboration with Sipa, the Italian company with 30 years of experience in the manufacturing of preform/bottle production and filling plants, presented the recycling system Xtreme Renew. This achievement enables direct and...
.jpg?width=330&height=220&mode=crop)
The Oldrati group based in Villongo (Italy), founded by Vanni Oldrati in 1964, is engaged in manufacturing products made of rubber, silicone and thermoplastic resins. The range also includes multi-component products, such as composite parts consisting of metal and rubber, thermoplastic resins combined with...
A mould and a machine to fold a sealing ring and check the product quality. Two different equipment to be tested, but only one partner to talk with and find solutions, optimize the process, and finally reduce the project production time. This has been Gefit philosophy for many years and was recently put into...
A permanent installation of joint technology - result of the collaboration between RocTool and Moretto - will form the core of the upcoming open house, being held at RocTool’s facility located in Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) on June 9, 2016. As a heat and cool technology leader, RocTool now...
The UK-based Omega Plastics Group, which was established in 2015 following the merger of Omega Plastics and Signal Plastics, installed a Vector 1300 injection moulding machine from Negri Bossi. The press, which features a clamping force of 1,300 tons and comes complete with robotic equipment, will run at the Omega factory in Washington, one of the...
From May 25 to June 15, Bandera’s The House of Extrusion is hosting an open house event with the exhibition of six extrusion lines, two of which providing a live demonstration. The event, covering the entire duration of the Drupa 2016 fair (dedicated to the graphic and industrial printing technologies and taking place in Düsseldorf from May 31 to June 10), was conceived by the Italian manufacturer based in...
With the participation at SPS IPC Drives (Parma, Italy, May 24-26), Interroll Italy confirmed its vocation as a primary player in the world of automation. "The automation of product, process automation, the industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution have a common denominator: motion. And motion is an Interroll specialty...
With sales of 1.35 billion euro and a net result higher than that of the previous year by some 3 million euro, Sacmi has, for the second year running, posted one of the best results in its long history. This is what emerges from the Annual Report 2015, approved on May 14 by the cooperative members’ meeting. “Like its parent company Sacmi Imola, the Sacmi Group closes...
Kasko is the name of the new receivers and containers from Moretto, delivering significant value and performance in a single machine. The overall design is essential, with the electronic board integrated into the machine chassis along with all external wires, and a newly designed soft drop head opening which works as a protection from...
FLEXflow, the finely regulated servo-driven valve gate system from HRSflow, an INglass division, now makes it possible to carry out the series production of large-format car headlight lenses by cascade injection molding. Compared with the present standard process, it enables the part weight to be significantly reduced while maintaining the...
In the past decade, Coperion in Stuttgart has delivered, installed and launched several compounding plants for Basf to manufacture engineering plastics. For a new compounding plant in South Korea, Basf relied once again on Coperion’s expertise; in September of 2015, the plant was handed over within the contractually agreed timeframe. Since then...
EasyFeed is the new feeding system offered by Amut in combination with the EA - 52 D extruder, to process up to 100% of regrind material during the in-line thermoforming whithout compromising the main extruder flow rate. During the sheet extrusion process, the presence of the regrind recycled from the thermoforming skeletons...
On May 5 and 6, Negri Bossi inaugurated its new Spanish branch in Garriga, near Barcelona. “Only by choosing Negri Bossi can you be sure of making the best bet!” ran the slogan strategically placed at the entrance to the games room set up for this two-day open house. This served both to invite guests to have fun at the event but also, in particular...
Based on its recent analysis of the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Gefran with the 2015 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership. Gefran’s PID controller, the 1350, has successfully addressed end-user pain points regarding display...
From April 25 to 28, Leistritz Extrusion Technology not only exhibited a ZSE 40 MAXX twin screw extruder at Chinaplas but also presented its new ZSE CC series. “Besides K show the Chinaplas fair is one of the most important international plastics exhibitions. We have been participating for years and this time again we present our...
Mimaki announced that it will be making a brand-new ink available in summer 2016. LUS-350 is a unique, stretchable ink suitable for a wide range of thermoforming applications, especially those requiring exceptional hardness and durability such as automotive parts. LUS-350 ink is compatible with the Mimaki UJF-7151plus and JFX200-2513 printers and...
The Swedish company Doxa Plast based in Värnamo installed a completely automatic 5-layer ALLrollEX-1500 cast stretch film line, which is running successfully since commissioning. It performs from the automatic selection of resins to be loaded from silos till full packaging system, with possibility to pack...
The experience acquired over more than four decades has seen Mast evolve from a small machine shop into a company specialising in the construction of screws and chambers for machines and systems used in the processing of plastic materials. Its current catalogue contains a vast range of solutions for the construction of single-screw and...
