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1 week ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
Published 6/2/2025 Designed for the smooth, even take-up of products ranging from fiber-optic cables to electrical power cables. Editorial Director, Plastics Technology Share Read Next The new Tire Driven Gantry from Reel Power Industrial Inc. is a shaftless take-up for reels designed for the smooth, even take-up of products ranging from fiber-optic cables to electrical power cables.
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1 week ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
The LMD desiccant resin dryer for Matsui America has been designed to enable consistent and reliable resin drying for highly engineered and hygroscopic materials with low volume throughput. Like the machine builder’s MJ Series line, this new series reportedly offers optimized energy consumption, 10-year desiccant life, standard automatic loading, and accurate and reliable drying performance via a consistent -40° dewpoint supply.
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1 week ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
The ViscoMelt from Hydramotion Ltd., England, is a new melt analyzer that reportedly provides real-time data of the entire viscoelastic picture of the melt, relating directly to melt flow index, intrinsic viscosity and molecular weight. These were measurements previously only accessible in the laboratory or with expensive, heavy and slow mechanical equipment.
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3 weeks ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
Nordson BKG GmbH, part of Nordson Corp.’s Polymer Processing Systems (PPS) division has announced a “deepened strategic partnership” with Fimic Srl, the details of which will be made public this October at K 2025 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Nordson is a global supplier of melt delivery and pelletizing solutions. Its product line includes flat film/sheet dies and coextrusion feedblocks, melt pumps, screen changers, polymer valves and more. Fimic makes melt filtration products.
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1 month ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
Maag Group has announced plans to buy Sikora AG, an acquisition that it says will “accelerate Maag’s innovation capabilities in machine learning, industrial IoT and AI-driven technologies.” Terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Bremen, Germany, Sikora makes measurement and control systems for cable, pipe, tubing and other extrusions.
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1 month ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
One of Latin America’s leading producers of flexible and rigid packaging products has established footing in the U.S. and is armed with innovative blown film technology that it contends will give it an edge in packaging of meat, chicken and other protein products. Family-owned and run, Grupo Plastilene was founded in 1958 in Colombia by the father of Stefano Pacini, the company’s current CEO.
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2 months ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
One of Poland’s leading film processors has reaped the benefits of production automation by virtue of its recent investment in Reifenhäuser's PAM (precise, autonomous, mechatronic) technology for flat dies and coextrusion adapters. Introduced at K2022, Reifenhäuser says the PAM system enables dies and adapters to be precisely adjusted automatically and mechatronically from the line’s operating panel.
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2 months ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
The MultiRESNtwin-screw extruder from Processing Technologies LLC (PTi) features improvements that have been implemented over time to meet industry demands and processing capabilities. The twin-screw extruder is said to be capable of processing a variety of virgin, postconsumer and postindustrial resins and flake, including PET, PLA, PP, PS, PE and other unique blends, without first having to crystallize, dry or change screws.
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2 months ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
Dr. Joseph Scuralli, former president of Wayne Machine & Die Co., Totawa, N.J. has formed his own sales representative firm, Extrudamerica LLC, which specializes in plastic, silicone and rubber extrusion equipment. The company will also represent ancillary products, control systems, technology, services and aftermarket parts. Scuralli served as president of Wayne Machine from 1985 through 2009, when it was sold to Steer World, manufacturers of twin-screw compounding machinery.
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2 months ago | 
ptonline.com | Jim Callari
Integrated Control Technologies LLC (ICT) is introducing two new products which are intended to facilitate the conversion from DC drives and motors to AC in extrusion. The products are also said to provide additional protective features for an extruder that previously required a control upgrade. First, the Extruder Duty Motor from ICT has a laminated frame design similar to a DC motor frame and eases the physical difficulties normally associated with a retrofit.
