Please visit: Apex Machine Co.
Mailing Address:
3000 NE 12th Terrace
Ft. Lauderdale,
FL
33334-4403
US
Phone:
954-566-1572
Fax:
954-563-2844
There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.
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.
Processors looking for something new at the NPE 2009 show in Chicago found “hybrid” multi-process printers, high-quality inkjets, and other advances in printing on plastic parts.
While there is plenty of news at NPE this year in pad, screen, dry-offset, flexo, and inkjet printing, as well as laser marking, hot stamping, heat-transfer decorating, and some less familiar technologies—the real star of the show is summed up in two words: “in-mold.” Responding to excitement in automotive, appliance, and electronics industries, at least 19 companies are showing materials or equipment for in-mold film-insert decorating or labeling (IMD, IML) for injection molding and thermoforming.
Recycled Resin Prices Flatten OutNew systems to process mixed plastic waste and to upgrade it with fiberglass or wood flour were prominent at last June’s show in Chicago.