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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
In a move to further strengthen quality control and ensure product safety, Macpac has installed a CEIA THS21 900 KHZ metal detection system at its state-of-the-art facility in Stockport.
A 1500mm conveyor feeds small stacks of finished thermoformed packs through the CEIA metal detector’s 450mm (width) x 300mm (height) aperture prior to packing and despatch. If the ultra high frequency unit detects metal, a signal stops the conveyor and rejects the contaminated product.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
PET Technologies manufactures two-stage stretch blow moulding machines for PET bottle production. But what do these words actually mean? What is "two-stage"? What is "blow molding"? The company dives into the world of blow moulding to understand what it is, what types exist and how plastic containers are made using different methods.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
ELIX Polymers has developed a range of new colours inspired by the latest trends and tailored to meet the specific requirements of various industries.
These innovative colours can be produced using different resins from the ELIX Polymers product portfolio, including ABS, ABS/PC and PC/ABS. Additionally, these colours are compatible with the more sustainable E-LOOP products that contain recycled content.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
Huntsman has launched a new intumescent polyurethane coating system developed for automotive applications, which can provide passive fire protection to metal and composite substrates used in electric vehicles (EVs) without compromising design flexibility.
POLYRESYST EV5005 polyurethane coating system has been developed to help protect structural integrity and improve fire protection in battery cells – a key challenge in the automotive industry.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
Thermoplastic sheet material supplier, Eagle Plastics, has signed an exclusive agreement with Foresight Innovations to distribute Recorelite in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Recorelite delivers next-generation, lightweight, high-compression panels manufactured from recycled ABS.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
Heinrich Dreher Maschinenbau has recently introduced a new high-performance granulator, the KX 60/100 HZ-6M, setting new standards in efficiency, precision and energy savings.
The new granulator is equipped with a powerful 90 kW drive and achieves a throughput of up to 1,000 kg per hour. The KX 60/100 HZ-6M has been specifically designed for the granulation of long plastic profiles and pipes, with material lengths of up to 6 meters.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
FANUC UK announced an agreement with Reeco Automation to incorporate the FANUC CRX range of collaborative robots into the RB series of robot palletisers.
As manual loading becomes an increasingly harder role to recruit, Reeco’s automated end-of-line RB Palletiser systems have grown in popularity, particularly among food and beverage producers.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
BP&R Editor Giulia Daniele speaks with speaks with Emily Amann, Director of Climate KIC's Entrepreneurship team, about how upstream innovation offers untapped economic potential and the lessons from the innovation clusters in Bengaluru and Nairobi.
[GD] What is upstream innovation, and what role does it play in the circular economy?
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2 weeks ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
The patent-pending SMARTshot I cold runner measurement and control concept incorporating servoelectrically actuated nozzle needles, currently under development by LSR mold specialist Elmet, is an intelligent variant of the SMARTshot E system.
Once deployed in a practical setting, entirely automatic startup will be possible as will controlled family moulds with cavities of differing volumes that do not require additional sensor systems.
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2 weeks ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Giulia Maria Daniele
Trotec Laser and eurolaser are entering a sales partnership to offer customers even more targeted advice and provide optimally tailored system solutions based on the long-standing market experience of both companies.
Both companies have decades of expertise in the field of CO₂ laser processing. While Trotec boasts a portfolio of systems for engraving, marking and cutting in small and medium formats, eurolaser specialises in large-format, precise cutting of non-metallic materials.
