Postindustrial

Film Extrusion

Reclaim System Pays Off for Foam Film Processor

A recent move to reclaim in-house production scrap paid off in six months for one processor of foamed film.

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Postconsumer

Nordson Buys Kreyenborg

Nordson Corp. continues to add to its portfolio of plastics equipment companies with the purchase of Kreyenborg GmbH, which makes screen changers; and sister company BKG Bruckmann, which makes pelletizers.

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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.

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sustainability

Conair & Rapid Joined by Shredder Maker

Move expands Rapid’s range of product offerings in size reduction.

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Packaging

Sustainable Sheet: Placon Closes the Loop on PET Recycling

Placon reprocesses up to 12,000 lb/day of PCR PET to produce its EcoStar line of sheet.

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Postindustrial

Sustainable Injection Molding: Amcor and the Big Picture

How the world’s biggest producer of PET packaging measures the environmental footprint of its operation.

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sustainability

How to Choose & Use Metal Separators

Use of magnets for removing ferrous contaminants in an industrial environment began in the 1940s to help farmers trap and remove metal contaminants from their grain chutes.

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Postindustrial

Making Old Bags New Again

This year, leading film processor and bagmaker Hilex company reprocessed 25 million lb of post-consumer material in its Bag2Bag recycling program.

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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.

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sustainability

Rotary Batch Mixers Help Boost In-House Recycling

While sustainability is a relatively new term in plastics, rotary batch mixing is an old warhorse in many processing operations.

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Process Cooling