Coperion & Coperion K-Tron Suppliers Showroom

Fakuma 2023: Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim to Showcase Joint Recycling Offerings

Virtual PET recycling plant will introduce comprehensive solutions.

Twin-Screw Feeder Ideal for Hard-to-Handle Materials

Twin-screw gravimetric feeder features a horizontal agitator so that the two screws are always filled with material.

Cost-Effective Single-Screw Feeder

New line of feeders said to be ideal for pellets, granules, and other free-flowing bulk materials.

Green’s the Theme in Extrusion/Compounding

The drive toward circular economy is requiring processors to make more use of PCR. Machine builders at K—across all extrusion processes—will be highlighting innovations to help them do just that.

Recycling Challenges Become Opportunities with the Aid of New Technologies

The latest recycling equipment on view at the K Show handles more materials, is more efficient and produces higher quality output than ever achieved before.

Hillenbrand to Buy Herbold

Move positions company to offer recyclers an integrated solution for material preparation—from washing and separation to compounding.

Construction Begins on Recycling Innovation Center

Coperion breaks ground on a new test lab for recycling applications, as compounding equipment suppliers are seeking to establish a presence in recycling.

Coperion K-Tron PTXPO Spotlight

Coperion K-Tron discusses the upcoming Plastics Technology Expo (PTXPO) March 29-31

Robust Feeder for the Simple Stuff

Compact single-screw feeders are said to be ideal for the feeding of pellets, granules and other free-flowing bulk materials.

Use These Twin-Screw ‘Tools’ to Improve Quality of Your Color Pigment Dispersions

A twin-screw compounding extruder is a single piece of equipment divided into distinct unit operations. Thinking of each unit operation as part of a toolbox can help determine what can be added or improved to process best-quality color masterbatches.

How to Ensure Reliable Feeder Performance When Handling PCR

Processors are being challenged to incorporate more recycled material into their products. Yet there are both economical and technical obstacles to achieving this objective—feeding among them. The design of your feeding equipment and the advantages that it will offer to your process will be more important than ever.

Cartridge Bin Vent Cleans Air in Pneumatic Systems

Small modular unit is inexpensive and easy to install.

Is Your Feeding Technology Robust Enough?

Maybe not. But consider these factors to beef up your system to ensure reliable and even smarter performance.

Compounding: Closed-Loop System for Coex Film Reclaim

New system permits reclaim of multi-layer production scrap at rates up to 100%.

Innovation, Customization & Sustainability: How Flex Films Focuses on U.S. Market

Global player in BOPET film has big plans for U.S. market with innovative products developed collaboratively with customers while paying heed to environmental concerns.

K 2019 Preview: Auxiliaries Showcase Connectivity & Efficiency

At press time, a handful of auxiliary suppliers shared some of their K 2019 plans, highlighting connectivity and efficiency in their planned displays.

Compounding: Twin Screw in a New Size

Designed especially for research and development as well as for production of small batch sizes.

Material Handling: Bulk Solids Pump Feeder Line Offers Precise Feeding

Coperion K-Tron's Bulk Solids Pump (BSP) feeder uses positive displacement action to feed free-flowing materials with high accuracy.

Road Trip: Bulk-Handling Systems on Wheels

Coperion, Coperion K-Tron launch Traveling Equipment Display to showcase solutions for handling bulk-solid materials.

Controller Supports Two Independent Feeder Lines

Coperion K-Tron has added new features to its K-Vision software.

Growing Compounder Targets Tolling

Illinois-based compounder BPC boosts capacity with high-output twin-screw to target more toll-compounding ��ý.

Responding to Challenges, Opportunities Of ‘Booming’ Plastics Market

Coperion sees a trend toward bigger, higher-output systems in polyolefin production, and flexibility in custom compounders.

Extrusion/Compounding at NPE2018: More…More…More!

More speed, flexibility and robustness. Across a gamut of extrusion applications, machine builders are introducing new machinery, components, and systems to dramatically raise the bar on productivity.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Compounding

Check out what’s new in compounding at this year’s big plastics industry trade show.

Coperion K-Tron Announces U.S. Production of Rotary Valves

The company has begun U.S. production of rotary valves type ZRD at its facility in Salina, Kan.

Augmented Auxiliaries At K 2016

Incremental improvements to existing technologies combined with altogether new advances at the giant show.

How to Troubleshoot Your Feeder to Achieve Optimal Performance

Even the tiniest improvements in compounding feeder accuracy can improve profits. Here’s how to keep your feeding system in the pink.

AUXILIARIES AT NPE: More Control, Flexibility, And Efficiency

These are key trends in the many kinds of auxiliary equipment displayed at this month’s show. You’ll also see equipment designed to be virtually ‘foolproof.’

Breaking Ground for Bulk Solids Innovation Center

Facility is expected to be open in April. Coperion K-Tron, Vortex Valves among anchor tenants.

The Paradox of Proportioning

Continuous proportioning typically involves a group of gravimetric feeders operating under some form of higher level coordinating control. One would think the result should be a perfectly formulated composite stream. But the devil is in the details.

Recycling News at K 2013

New developments combine recycling and compounding in one step. Plenty of news at K in size reduction and de-labeling.

Extrusion/Compounding at K 2013: Having It All

Extrusion processors no longer need to chose among speed, quality, and flexibility, based on exhibits at K 2013.

K 2013: More Efficient, Flexible & User-Friendly Auxiliaries

It’s hard to generalize about auxiliary equipment, but a few trends stood out at K, including: greater energy efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, controls that provide more real-time and historical process information and greater ease of use.

Micro-Ingredient Feeder to Debut at K 2013

K-Tron will introduce a low-rate, micro-ingredient feeder.

Auxiliaries at NPE: News in Materials Handling, Cooling, Granulating, Welding, Testing, Decorating

Auxiliary equipment takes in a broad range of functions, from materials preparation to post-mold finishing.

Auxiliaries at NPE: New Solutions from Material Preparation To Post-Mold Operations

There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.

Look Upstream to Avoid ‘GIGO’ Pitfalls in Extrusion

You may think you have a feeding issue when in reality your problem may be upstream.

From the Ashes, A More Efficient Film Operation Emerges

Three years after a fire destroyed most of its operation, Tex-Trude came back as a more productive extrusion ��ý.

Materials Handling: New Equipment Emphasizes Efficiency & Value

Visitors to the recent NPE 2009 show in Chicago were looking for materials handling equipment that could do more than dry, blend, or convey resins. It had to do those things while saving energy, providing faster and easier maintenance, speeding product changeovers, reducing labor cost, minimizing waste, and providing better value for money. The new products cited below addressed those needs and more.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Materials Handling: A Host of Refinements and Updates

NPE 2006 held no revolutionary changes in dryers, blenders, feeders, loaders, or conveying controls, but widely adopted improvements make the newest models easier to use and maintain—and easier on the budget, too.

What to See at NPE 2006: Materials and Parts Handling

Dryers, feeders, blenders, loaders, metal detectors, level sensors, mechanical and pneumatic conveyors, silos, bins, pumps, filters, valves, box fillers, bag dumpers, and materials-handling control systems constitute one of the biggest categories of products on display at NPE.

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