k show

sustainability

Meeting the Social Challenges of Changing an Industry

At K 2022, Milliken highlighted its various sustainability collaborations in addition to technological achievements.

Read More

Bockatech Pushes New Boundaries at K 2022

Three years after debuting at K 2019, Bockatech’s EcoCore technology is boasting faster cycle times and lighter containers with greater properties as it targets more verticals and broader brandowner adoption.

Read More
k show

KraussMaffei Launches Two Additive Manufacturing Lines at K 2022

Long established in injection molding, extrusion and polyurethane reaction process machinery, 184-yr-old KraussMaffei prepares to enter the industrial additive manufacturing market.  

Watch
Packaging

All-rPET Bottles with Glued-in Handles Save Material

At K 2022, KHS is showing a 2.3 L PET bottle with glued-in handle that offers 10% material savings and other advantages over clip-in handles. Bottle and handle are both 100% rPET.

Read More
sustainability

Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show

High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.

Read More
k show

Energy-Saving Accumulator-Head Blow Molder

ST BlowMoulding’s new AX 880 has all-electric clamping, electro-hydraulic parison push-out, and twin adiabatic extruders.

Read More
Testing

Dual-Mode Portable Thickness Gauge for Packaging

Hand-held “pen” measures sheets, containers, panels, large parts with magnetic or capacitance mode; controlled by Bluetooth phone app.

Read More
Blow Molding

Uniloy Introduces Small Electric Shuttle at K 2022

Uniloy’s new UCS-E all-electric shuttle blow molder has 10-ton clamp, 400-mm carriage stroke.

Read More
PET

Mold Opaque White PET Bottles – Without Pigment

Trexel and Husky are cooperating on molding recyclable opaque white preforms for PET bottles, which provide a light barrier using foam instead of pigment.

Read More
Tooling

K 2022: High-Performance Bucket Mold Targets Faster Cycles

Heavy-wall container molds, coinjection for post-consumer recyclate and more on tap from Top Grade Molds in Düsseldorf.

Read More
Plastics Size Reduction
Blending & Dosing