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Macro Building Shrink Film Lab Line for Multibubble Production

NPE2024: Machine builder is preparing should market switch from PVdC.

Sustainability, Innovation Intertwined at TC Transcontinental Packaging

Just 10 years in the plastics packaging ��ý, TC Transcontinental has invested heavily to help its brand owner and retail customers meet their sustainability goals.

Macro Names Anzini Tech Sales Manages for Southeast

Has worked in technical roles for leading processing companies in his career of 40+ years.

'Try it, Like it' Air-Ring Package

Units are said to be the most versatile and efficient in their class

Novel Line Produces 27-Microlayer Blown Film

Italian machine builder unveils blown film system that relies on feedblocks—far more common in flat-die processing—to yield thin yet strong film.

Solve Five Common Problems in Blown Film Coextrusion

The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Here are typical problems with these structures and tips on how to solve them.

Macro Founder Planeta Retires

Founder of film and sheet extrusion machine builder steps down after 40 years.

Extrusion: Biax Lines for ‘Bone-In’ Meat Bags

Equipment also comes with materials-selection and processing know how.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Film & Extrusion Coating

Check out what’s new in blown and cast film and extrusion coating at the big plastics industry trade show.

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.

Macro Engineering, Raven Industries Partner on New 7-layer Cast Extrusion Line

The line includes the addition of two individual extrusion dies to process low and high viscosity resin types.

Macro Expands Die Refurbishing Capabilities

Process reportedly yields dies 'good as new.'

Know Your Options for Foaming Sheet

Tandem extrusion of PS is still the standard technology, but new materials options and equipment technology are emerging.

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING AT NPE: The Word Is ‘More’

As in speed, power, quality, flexibility, layers, and efficiency. Those are the trends across all extrusion processes.

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 Preview: Extrusion, Compounding, Recycling

Across all extrusion technologies, expect to see new standards in speed, quality, flexibility, and efficiency in both energy and material usage.

New Division Helps Film/Sheet Processors Boost Production

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc., Mississauga, Ont., has launched a new Technology Division dedicated to helping processors improve their film and sheet extrusion operations through a range of consultation and services.

Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: Advances Push Efficiency Envelope

Blown film towers may have been scarce, but there was no shortage of new technology aimed at helping to make extrusion processors more profitable.

Foaming Developments Aplenty in Extrusion

At NPE2012, Macro Engineering and Technology, Mississauga, Ont., launched new technology to extrude foamed films in what it describes as an “environmentally friendly process” that uses inert gas as the foaming agent.

Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: More Output, More Flexibility, Less Energy

There won't be many blown-film lines running, but there is still much in the way of innovation going on in extrusion and compounding.

EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING: Five-Layer Film Structures Set to Supplant Three Layers?

In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.

K 2010 Preview, Extrusion More…Layers, Output & Quality

In most segments of extrusion technology, the word at K 2010 is more.

Extrusion at NPE 2003

NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Extrusion and Compounding

Extrusion machinery at the June NPE show in Chicago showed inventive ways to get more out of your floorspace and materials.

NPE News in Extrusion

This NPE show won’t have a lot of extruders on the floor, either running or static. Instead, look for videos and announcements of new technology. You will also find lots of ingenious peripheral devices to improve output and quality and save resin. Some will do all three, and cost less into the bargain.

What's New at the Show in EXTRUSION

It’s all about higher speeds and higher outputs at this year’s “K” show in Germany.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion

NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.

What to See at NPE 2006: Extrusion

The new factor in extrusion machinery at this NPE is the influx of Asian suppliers.

Nine-Layer Blown Film: Why It's a Challenge, What It Takes to Succeed

Eight years after nine-layer blown films were first introduced, only a handful of processors have mastered the challenges of making them. Machine suppliers are now setting up lab lines that could make entry easier.

MDO Films: Lots of Promise, Big Challenges

Machine-direction orientation is still discovering new market opportunities. But the technical difficulties are so great that some big projects never came of age. New equipment could make it easier.

K 2004 News Preview: Extrusion

At K 2004, at least a half-dozen European machine builders will show new direct-drive extruders running gearless—or nearly gearless—drives with substantially higher rpm and output rates than conventional extruders of the same size.

Automatic Gauge Control: Comparing the Options

Until recently, blown-film processors looking for auto-gauge control had a choice of one segmented-die system, one IBC-based system, and several segmented air rings. Now there are at least nine auto-dies, including two for high-stalk bubbles, and lots of air-ring variations. All claim to improve gauge uniformity, but there are differences.

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