Please visit: PTi/Processing Technologies International
Mailing Address:
2655 White Oak Circle
Aurora,
IL
60502-9674
US
Phone:
630-585-5800
Fax:
630-585-5855

WORLD CLASS EXTRUSION SYSTEMS
Processing Technologies International, LLC (PTi)
Serving over 20 countries, PTi is a global leader in high performance sheet extrusion machinery. Established in 1988, PTi continues to supply and service single screw extrusion equipment to industries producing packaging, construction, automotive, lawn & garden, office products, signs & displays, appliances and much more. Engineered to exact standards PTi systems offer an exceptional array of design features resulting in superior equipment performance.
New technologies include VIDEOGAP™, Auto-Ramp™ and TITAN® Computer Control Systems which feature basic PLC controls for speed, interlock and temperature PID coordination; basic recipe, trending; and the advanced feature TITAN® Plus. The TITAN® Plus includes expanded data logging, VIDEOGAP™ technology and voice annunciation.
PTi also offers several unique roll stand configurations that are used to produce thin through thick sheet gauges (0.006 – 1.000”/0.15 – 25.0 mm) at narrow thru wide sheet widths (24 – 130”/600 – 3,300 mm). REVOLUTION® roll stands feature linear bearing guided roll actuation with direct acting cylinders positioned on roll shaft centers and are available in a vertical, horizontal and J-stack arrangements. PTi’s TRIDENT® model roll stands incorporate heavy duty pivot arms for roll actuation using a lever advantaged cylinder placement. The newest addition to the line-up of industry proven products is GLOBALINE® a pre-engineered, compact, sheet extrusion system that is configurable to customer specific production requirements.
PTi’s markets served include: mono and co-extruded sheet, foam sheet, compounding, fiber, pipe and profile and reclaim.
Touting some of the industry’s leading engineers, PTi provides customers with an edge over the competition for end product quality and machine versatility. PTi maintains its delivery of the highest quality sheet extrusion systems found anywhere throughout the industry.
PTi — WORLD CLASS EXTRUSION SYSTEMS
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PTi is a leading manufacturer of world class single screw extrusion equipment. For information on PTi's innovations, please contact one of our sales representatives. Processing Technologies 2655 White Oak Circle Aurora, IL 60502 P: 630.585.5800 F: 630.585.5855
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The world of extrusion continues to evolve year to year. Developments in resin, tooling, equipment, controls, processing methods and end-uses define this evolution. While these changes play an integral role in keeping markets on the move, they also keep plastics processors constantly challenged. |
GLOBALINE® is the newest addition to PTi's line-up of industry proven Sheet Extrusion Products. GLOBALINE® was developed to fulfill the need in the global market place for a cost effective solution configurable as a compact unit for inline thermoforming or a full length configuration for producing roll stock. Its design emphasizes flexibility; allowing processors to efficiently produce smaller runs of sheet from key materials such as PP, PS, PET and polylactic acid, the bioresin known as PLA. Offering pre-engineered components, lead and installation times are also greatly reduced.
GLOBALINE® is available in two unique platforms distinguished by finished product widths of 1.0 or 1.5 m (40 or 60"). Depending on the application and the customer requirement, the GLOBALINE® can be configured for a range of production outputs between 300 — 1750 kg/hr (650 — 3900 lbs/hr). All GLOBALINE® systems are available in mono-layer or co-extrusion formats for A/B, A/B/A, A/B/C, and more...
PTi offers several unique roll stand configurations that are used to produce thin thru thick sheet gauges (0.006 – 1.000”/0.15 – 25.0 mm) at narrow thru wide sheet widths (24 – 130”/600 – 3,300 mm). REVOLUTION® roll stands feature linear bearing guided roll actuation with direct acting cylinders positioned on roll shaft centers. TRIDENT® roll stands feature heavy duty pivot arms for roll actuation using a lever advantaged cylinder placement. REVOLUTION® is available in a vertical, horizontal and J-stack arrangement. TRIDENT® is only available in a vertical and J-stack arrangement.
PTi provides a selection of shears, stacking systems and sheet winding options designed to accommodate a comprehensive range of sheet production applications. From robotic style stackers (single or dual station); to fully automatic winders, PTi offers a single source solution for your sheet handling needs.
PTi leads the industry in control automation. The TITAN® brand of machine controls is by far the best control system available. There are 3 control platforms available with a PTi extrusion system, basic PLC controls for speed, interlock and temperature PID coordination; TITAN® PLC controls with basic recipe, trending and other extended features; and the advance featured TITAN® Plus controls with expanded data logging, voice annunciation, VIDEOGAP™ and more!
All PTi extrusion systems come standard with the base PLC control system. Each of the available control platforms includes a color touch screen operator interface(s) as the primary man-machine interface (MMI).
PTi offers various designs for performing lamination functions for sheet production. These are categorized as primary nip for hot sheet lamination or an alternative downstream location for warm or cold sheet lamination. The substrate can be applied to either the top or bottom side of the sheet depending upon the specific requirement. Masking protective films are another option for downstream laminating of sheet to protect the surface of the sheet against cosmetic defects caused by product handling though various equipment stages.
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.
Processing Technologies International (PTi), recently took the wraps off its “dryer-less” twin-screw PET sheet extrusion system at its headquarters in Aurora, Ill.
One wouldn’t expect a Colombian packaging giant to come to Virginia for a cup of coffee, but that’s sort of what happened.
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New sheet winding systems from Processing Technologies International, LLC (PTi), Aurora Ill., comprise cantilever, A-frame, turret, and automatic designs.
Flat film and sheet toolmakers are focusing on technologies for nanolayer systems.
In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.
In most segments of extrusion technology, the word at K 2010 is more.
Most of the news to be found at NPE in post-consumer recycling comes from Europe and concerns direct recycling of PET flake into sheet without repelletizing.
Luigi Bandera Meccaniche S.p.A. of Milan, Italy, and Processing Technologies International (PTi) LLC, Aurora, Ill. have teamed up to furnish sheet extrusion systems for processing 100% reclaimed PET or PLA flake without need for drying and crystallizing.
Two Southern California processors have boldly gone where no one has ever gone before.
"We tend to jump on things early," says John Kittredge. "F-K has been a pioneer in a number of things. Our earliest example was converting HDPE margarine tubs to ABS. After that we were a leader in thermoforming polypropylene, and then APET." Now it's PLA biopolymer.
PTi offers several unique roll stand configurations that are used to produce thin thru thick sheet gauges (0.006-1.000 inch/0.15-25.0 mm) at narrow thru wide sheet widths (24-130 inch/600-3,300 mm). REVOLUTION® roll stands feature linear bearing guided roll actuation with direct acting cylinders positioned on roll shaft centers.
PTi leads the industry in control automation.
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.
PTi has just introduced a new series of sheet extrusion systems called GLOBALINE®. This design concept provides a cost effective sheet extrusion solution for a world marketplace.
Clear Lam Packaging Inc. is a mid-sized, family-owned packaging company with an enviable growth rate of over 20%/yr, unusual at a time when many mid-sized packaging companies are being bought out and disappearing. The secret, Clear Lam believes, has been its aggressive investment in R&D.
The second generation of Titan and Titan Plus computer controls, introduced in July by PTi Processing Technologies LLC in Aurora, Ill., distributes operator information over three screens simultaneously and also distributes the computing power behind them.
NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.
The industry’s first quick-release mold-clamping system for cut-sheet machines made its debut this fall at the SPE’s 15th annual Thermoforming Conference in Milwaukee.
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.
Gearless extrusion, cryogenic profile calibration, wireless data communications, and automatic start-up of blown film lines are just a few of the new ways to raise efficiency and output that were highlighted at NPE.