BLOW MOLDING AT NPE: Energy Savings, Lightweighting & Flexibility
New machines are mostly all-electric, hybrid, or servo-hydraulic.

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING AT NPE: The Word Is ‘More’
As in speed, power, quality, flexibility, layers, and efficiency. Those are the trends across all extrusion processes.

Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: Advances Push Efficiency Envelope
Blown film towers may have been scarce, but there was no shortage of new technology aimed at helping to make extrusion processors more profitable.

Blow Molding at NPE: Pushing the Envelope in Speed, Flexibility, Energy Savings
New models of blow molding machines at the show were dominated by wheel machines and stretch-blow systems.

Blow Molding at NPE: Speed, Quality & Flexibility Take Center Stage
Wheel machines in particular will be on display.

Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: More Output, More Flexibility, Less Energy
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.

BLOW MOLDING: Higher Output Screw for Reciprocating Machines
A new line of feed screws is said to provide higher throughputs, lower melt temperatures, and improved mixing on reciprocating-screw extrusion blow molders.

Line of Extruders Debut for Pipe, Profiles & More
The Max Extruder series from R&B Plastics Machinery, Saline, Mich., comes in sizes from 1 to 10 in. diam. in all L/D ratios and with PLC, PC-based, or discrete control systems.

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Extrusion and Compounding
Extrusion machinery at the June NPE show in Chicago showed inventive ways to get more out of your floorspace and materials.

NPE News in Blow Molding
While occupying a relatively small category of exhibits, blow molding will present no lack of innovation at NPE.

Optimized Control System Uses Off-the-Shelf PLC
R&B Plastics Machinery LLC, Saline, Mich., has switched to an off-the-shelf PLC instead of dedicated motion-control cards to control closed-loop hydraulic motions of its injection-blow and extrusion blow molders.

Large Press Boosts Rotary Output
A new high-speed rotary extrusion blow molder from R&B Plastics Machinery, Saline, Mich., boasts wide platens for greater output.