Please visit: Boston Matthews Inc.
Mailing Address:
57 Oak St.
Norwood,
NJ
07648
US
Phone:
201-767-7111
Fax:
201-767-6293
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.
NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.
Extrusion machinery at the June NPE show in Chicago showed inventive ways to get more out of your floorspace and materials.
With virgin resin so expensive, there’s plenty of recycling action—from PET bottle-to-bottle plants to new projects aimed at agricultural film, carpets, and auto-shredder residue.
Dramatic production demonstrations of cast and blown film set throughput records on the show floor in Dusseldorf.
A completely redesigned extrusion line for cosmetic tubing reduces product changeover time from hours to minutes, says Boston Matthews, Norwood, N.J.
NPE will show higher outputs of practically everything, as advances in grooved feeds, servo drives, screw torque, mixing screws, dies, and downstream cooling, cutting, and handling make everything run faster.
Interplas 99 in Birmingham held news in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, RIM, and recycling.