ISRA Surface Vision

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 suppliers of camera arrays for automatic sheet/film inspection and defect control recently delivered their widest arrays ever.

WEB EXCLUSIVE Two suppliers of camera arrays for automatic inspection and defect control of plastic film and sheet report recently delivering their widest arrays ever.

The new Rewind Management System from ISRA Vision System, Duluth, Ga., maps and displays locations of specks, gels and other defects in a roll of film.

Thermal and mechanical testers, color and appearance sensors, vision inspection devices and CMMs—the NPE had them all in more compact, economical, and easy-to-use models.

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.