Nowadays we hear a lot about 3D printers, which are also widely used: the 3D printer represents the latest frontier of the global manufacturing industry, and while it can certainly be said to have been reached, there remains much to explore. Perhaps surprisingly, the 3D is 30 years old: indeed, 11 March 1986 was the day that saw the publication of the...
Iran’s largest producers of PET preforms is banking on Sipa in its latest round of expansion. Khosh Form, which has operations in the cities of Mashhad (Khosh Form Toos) and Qazvin (Khosh Form Caspian), has, other than 10 different Husky machines, 7 XForm 500 preform injection molding system at both locations, all of them running with 96-cavity molds...
The European Thermoforming Division (ETD) of the SPE celebrates 20 years of excellence in serving the European thermoforming industry and this milestone has been marked at the 10th thermoforming conference held in Sitges (Barcelona) on March 10 and 11. The conference, which hosted about 250 participants, was entitled...
Manufacturer of moulds for thermoplastics and assembly machines, Gefit recently developed a 48-cavity mould for coffee capsules demonstrates. Coffee capsules have conquered the taste and the favour of the European consumers, so that their use becomes every day higher, according to the frantic pace that modern market...
A framework agreement has been recently signed by Wittmann Battenfeld and Hayco. The agreement covers the manufacture of SmartPower and MacroPower series to Hayco in the coming 5-10 years. Hayco with headquarters in Hong Kong is a manufacturer of modern household products...
The common agreement between Athena Automation (Vaughan, Ontario) and Sipa (Vittorio Veneto, Italy), involving injection moulding systems for PET preforms, has come to an end. The two companies began a formal collaboration in late 2012 on equipment based around small and medium-sized injection moulding machines (with clamp forces of...
Rodolfo Comerio has developed two enormous calenders, among the largest ever built worldwide, for the lamination of thermoplastic resins and bonding with special materials. One features 4 and the other 5 cylinders (each with a diameter of 870 mm) and they both have a 5,000 mm working table. Each of these 30-ton calenders is over 8 m long...
This year sees Bausano & Figli reaching the significant landmark of 70 years in business. It was indeed 1946 when Clemente Bausano founded Costruzioni Meccaniche Clemente Bausano in Rivarolo Canavese, just outside Turin - the same company that is now an established name, at global level, in the construction of equipment and lines for...
The US company Moog and IIT, (Italian Institute of Technology) announced that they signed an agreement for the creation of a new joint lab - Moog@IIT - focusing on the development of next-generation actuation and control technologies for autonomous robots. IIT and Moog will work together over the next three years to develop the required technologies to...
600 visitors from Italy and abroad (mainly from Russia and eastern European countries), 1,600 square metres of exhibition space occupied by around 250 auxiliary systems, one injection moulding machines and two running extrusion lines for bubble film, one of which was particularly large. These are some key data summarising Moretto ExpoTech...
Among the six finalists of the MD&M West Innovation Prize, a contest dedicated to innovation in the medical sector, there is also an Italian manufacturer, Gimac, partner of the American company Syneo in the development of a fully automated system for the coating, during the extrusion process, of cable guides for the medical industry...
A double stage line for lamination by extrusion with a length of 32 metres was recently presented by Amut Dolci Bielloni at its plant in Biassono (Monza Brianza, Italy). The line is designed for the production of various types of paper and cardboard coated with polythene, and/or laminated with alufoil. The line has a width of up to 1750 mm...
The latest achievement at Gefit headquarter is an assembly cell for a product made of two components, the first made of PC and the second one of soft PVC. The product is a part of the kit for blood transfusions currently used in hospitals. Accuracy, reliability, special care even for the apparently less important details are the main...
Moretto is organising its first ExpoTech event from 3 to 6 February: 1,600 square metres dedicated to exhibiting the company's full range of technologies for feeding and conveying, drying, blending, storing, grinding, temperature control and cooling dedicated to the plastic processing industry. There will be a total of 250 machines on show, in addition to...
A latest generation line for extruding ABS and HIPS+PS, with useful width of between 500 and 950 mm and between 0.8 and 6 mm thick, was recently developed by Union for Beko. The line, reaching an output rate of 600 kg/hour and 800 kg/hour in the processing of ABS and HIPS+PS parts respectively, is fitted with a main single screw TR 150 extruder, with...
Specialists in the manufacture of PVC pipes and equipped with 12 extrusion lines, the Gazi Group has recently commissioned six new extruders in a single order from Rajoo Bausano Extrusion. The processor, with offices in Bangladesh, has already been using a line developed using technology developed by Bausano for the past six months. It has not only found that...
The range of Baruffaldi profile cutting devices is boosted with the arrival of the new MS100-CUT, a super-fast electro-mechanical shearing machine for inline vertical or inclined cutting of small and medium-sized technical profiles. The machine can handle single or multi-strand extrusion set-ups, guaranteeing high-level...
On December 11, Comi held an open house event at its Ciserano plant (Bergamo, Italy) in order to introduce its latest machines to its customers, both current and potential, and also to the specialised press. Hosting the event, in particular, were the company’s CEO, Franco Ballabio...
The head offices of Saspol in Vigevano (Pavia, Italy) hosted an open house event from December 14 to 18, in which the company presented its collaboration with the Chinese injection machine manufacturer Yizumi. This partnership that began in July 2015 allows the Italian company to exclusively sell the machines of its Chinese partner throughout Italy...
