News-Special "K 2007"
Erema: Successful K show for Austrian recycling specialist
23.11.2007 - What was by far the most successful K trade fair ever since the Upper Austrian company EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. (www.erema.at) first participated was held from 24 to 31 October in Düsseldorf. While orders amounting to around 7 million euros were placed during K´2004,...
Weima: Good intake of orders at K 2007 for plastics shredding machines
23.11.2007 - WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH (www.weima.com) has been able to conclude several purchase contracts directly at the K 2007 fair especially for single shaft shredders for shredding of plastics. The customers originated mainly from abroad, but a very high level of enquiries was also recorded from the domestic...
Brückner: Looking Forward to Expansion in Bulgaria
12.11.2007 - Bulgaria’s leading OPP film manufacturer, Plastchim-T, is expanding its film production with a second BOPP line. Due to the perfect and smooth cooperation they experienced working together with Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG (www.brueckner.com) on their first BOPP project, Plastchim-T naturally...
Georg Kaufmann Formenbau: First Dolphin two-component mould in operation at K 2007
07.11.2007 - Rotary injection mould combines soft-touch with rigidity Now effectively ready for service in mass production, the first injection mould for the Dolphin process could be seen in operation at K 2007. This process combines the injection moulding and foaming operations in one production cell and is...
Nuga: Inline recycling of hollow items in PE/PP
25.10.2007 - Bottles, canisters and other containers are produced in PE or PP by blow moulding. Depending on the process conditions and changes in the material, shape or colour, different amounts of high grade plastic waste arise continuously during the start-up process as well as during production. At K 2007 NUGA...
Nuga: Granulators for granulation of PET bottles
18.10.2007 - NUGA AG (www.centricut.ch) is presenting at K 2007 further developed granulators in its compact CentriCut 44 slr range, that have been designed especially for demanding tasks in the granulation of PET bottles. The PET bottles are fed via a conveyor belt as loose bulk material in the form of entire or...
Rieter: Live production of micro pellets
09.10.2007 - The highlight of Rieter´s (www.rieter-automatik.de, www.pelletizing.com) stand at K 2007 will be a compact production line which can produce micro pellets in both spherical and cylindrical shapes. The unconventional production arrangement will be shown in operation twice a day at 11.30 am and 3 pm....
Weima: Optimally designed drives on shredding machinery for plastics
04.10.2007 - The change in the form of a product by shredding is a central process stage in processing of plastics. Its efficiency depends here essentially on the best possible designed drive for the shredding machine used. At K 2007, WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH (www.weima.com) presents optimum drive concepts for different...
B+B Anlagenbau: Highly efficient PET recycling – live presentation under production conditions
02.10.2007 - B+B Anlagenbau GmbH (www.bub-anlagenbau.de) presents its innovative pilot line for highly efficient processing of PET and HDPE bottle fractions at K 2007 in Düsseldorf bzw. HDPE-Fraktionen. The central components of the line with its throughput of approx. 300 kg/h) are dry grinding with downline dry...
Sacmi Imola: Compression machine to produce PET preforms
02.10.2007 - At K 2007, Sacmi Imola S.C. (www.sacmi.com) will present its breakthrough technology: a compression machine to produce PET preforms (Photo). PAM is the name of the innovative system, acronym of Preform Advanced Moulding. The 48 cavities prototype machine is currently running at 27.000 pref/h, producing...
OiMA: New series of injection moulding machines for packaging
21.09.2007 - OiMA S.p.A. (www.oima.it) will introduce to the market on forthcoming edition 2007 of the K its new series of injection moulding machines for packaging named "Stratos KP." Here listed are some of the technological features proposed by the new STRATOS KP Series: • a completely redesigned hydraulic...
plasticker.com - Online marketplace for the plastics industry
19.09.2007 - The plasticker industry portal (www.plasticker.com) is presenting itself for the first time at K 2007, on the common stand of the ministry for trade, medium and small sized enterprises and energy of the state of North Rhine Westphalia (Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Mittelstand und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen)....
TSM Control Systems: 12 Material Components in one Blender
19.09.2007 - TSM Control Systems (www.tsmcontrols.com) is revolutionising the plastics industry with the introduction of the TSM3000 (3.000 kg/h) Gravimetric Batch Blender (Photo). The 12 component blender features many of TSM’s new advances in technology including the automatic cleaning, Material By-pass and...
Hosokawa Alpine: Granulator for PVC window profiles up to 7 m length
03.09.2007 - Hosokawa Alpine (www.alpinehosokawa.com) will show the new 45/71 PM Profile Granulator (photo), which was specially developed for the manufacturers of PVC window profiles for in-house recycling. The new granulator is the heart of a complete system designed to comminute mitre sections, small parts and...
Hellweg: Universal edge strip granulator
31.08.2007 - Cast films and plastic-coated paper sheeting are confectioned by cutting off both of the sheeting edge strips. Irregularities relating to production are thereby eliminated and consistent thickness over the entire width of the sheeting guaranteed. The continuous strips that arise are cut into short pieces...
IKV: Precision optics – Focus on plastics
28.08.2007 - “Precision optics – Focus on plastics”. Under this heading, the Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV, www.ikv-aachen.de) at RWTH Aachen University is presenting the entire development process for an optical injection moulded part, starting with the initial idea for the product and proceeding via...
FKuR: Compostable mulch films made of PLA blends
27.08.2007 - The FKuR Kunststoff GmbH (www.fkur.com) in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT (www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de) has developed the first compostable mulch film based on a PLA blends and has brought it to the market. PLA blends are a mixture between PLA (polylactide) and further biodegradable...

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