Please visit: Cincinnati Milacron Extrusion Systems
Mailing Address:
4165 Half Acre Rd.
Batavia,
OH
45103-3247
US
Phone:
513-536-3320
Toll-Free:
888-751-3127
Fax:
513-536-3335
Tooling developments allow for versatility, quick changes.
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.
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.
Two big filings for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection occurred in March.
The Servtek TCS (Thermal Control Solution) radiant barrel heating/cooling system, developed by Rex Materials Group, Fowlerville, Mich., and distributed exclusively for plastics by Cincinnati Milacron in Batavia, Ohio, is said to bring energy savings of 30% to 50% to both extrusion and injection molding.
Dramatic production demonstrations of cast and blown film set throughput records on the show floor in Dusseldorf.
Low-priced Chinese-built extruders have arrived in North America to make pipe, sheet, film, and profiles. Some customers find them a good buy; others don’t. Here’s what you need to know.
For cooling some profi les, the old-fashioned way is better.
It’s all about higher speeds and higher outputs at this year’s “K” show in Germany.
A special metering section, originally developed by B&P Process Equipment in Saginaw, Mich., for corotating twin-screw compounding, is being used for the fi rst time for direct extrusion of wood-composite profi les.
Milacron, Inc. has formed an Extrusion Aftermarket Group in Batavia, Ohio, to upgrade and rebuild older extrusion systems with new controls, motors, screws, and barrels.
NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.
The new factor in extrusion machinery at this NPE is the influx of Asian suppliers.
At this year’s NPE, new processes to put wood flour into plastic were virtually everywhere—several even start with undried flour.
Five years ago, Quality Wood Treating in Prairie Du Chien, Wis., was a 30-year-old family lumber business and one of the largest wood pressure-treaters in the country.