Technical Reports
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Light Weight Construction on Solid Soil
2009-06-26: Dr. Klaus Pfaffelhuber, Röchling Automotive AG & Co. KG With 5 kg for the complete underbody of a luxury saloon Röchling Automotive sets the current benchmark. The structural material “Seeberlite” is applied based on a new process, called “Softlofting”. |
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From really large to really small
2009-05-08: Jörg Töpfer, WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH Graf Plastics GmbH produces large volume Carat brand underground tanks for rainwater collection (photo 2) at its Teningen location (photo 1). Surplus production material arises during production of the up to 6,500 litres large containers and this is shredded in a single step into ground material with... |
The Gneuss Online Viscometer 
2009-01-26: Dr. Axel Hannemann, Gneuß Kunststofftechnik GmbH |
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Food-grade bottle-to-bottle recycling process successfully undergoing tests in practical operation
2008-01-21: Dr. Thomas Friedlaender, KRONES AG |
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Two-stage granulation with the CentriCut granulator
2007-05-09: Dipl.-Ing. Gunter Schippers, NUGA AG Kunststoffschneidmühlen, Balgach/Schwitzerland Morein Plastics GmbH (www.morein.nl), a plastics recycler founded around 20 years ago, has recently moved its production from Denekamp in The Netherlands to Nordhorn in the German state of Lower Saxony. The move was necessary because the old production location had become to small due to strong expansion.... |
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European legislation on the way - New opportunities for recycling
2005-11-15: Hetty Jongbloed, Jan Jetten and Rinus Rijk, TNO, Business Center Chemistry The use of recycled plastics for food contact applications has been restricted in Europe by the lack of relevant legislation. However, this will change in the near future. Imminent legislation will officially open up the market to the use of recycled plastics for food contact. |
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Roadshow Takes Compounding Technology into the Field
2005-08-18: Daniel Nagl, Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG A fully operable, mobile compounding line facilitates practical demonstrations of typical process functions. The "Roadshow" atmosphere appeals to audiences and generates much interest, whether at training events or during trials at the customer's site. |
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Recostar iV+: PET-Recycling for reuse with food-contact
2005-06-10: Ing. Elfriede Hell, MBA, Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. In anticipation of the ever-increasing use of PET, the Austrian company Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. has developed the new concept Recostar PET iV+. PET waste, both washed post-consumer bottle flakes and pre-form or bottle flakes from in-house or post-industrial sources, is transformed into amorphous... |
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Texplast - new granulating technology makes PET recycling more efficient
2004-10-08: Dipl.-Ing. Gunter Schippers, NUGA AG Kunststoffschneidmühlen, Balgach/Schweiz Texplast GmbH (Wolfen, Germany), one of Europe's leading PET recycling firms, processes used PET one-way and multi-trip bottles, preforms and the waste material from bottle manufacturing operations. The ground material, in regranulated or agglomerated form, is re-used to make, e.g. PET sheets, preforms... |
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Size Reduction of Technical Plastics– Two-Stage Operations more Efficient than Single-Stage
2004-06-23: Hans-Peter Fischer, WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH At HKR Kunststoffe GmbH in Langenbeutingen, technical plastics such as ABS, PBT, PC, POM, but primarily PA 6, PA 6.6, PA 12, PPA, LCP, etc. - particularly glass fibre reinforced types - are processed into high-grade regranulate. These materials accumulate as production waste in the plastics processing... |
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