European Plastics and Rubber Machinery Industry Well Positioned Despite Crisis and Highly Motivated for K 2022 The expected production value for plastics and rubber machinery in Europe in 2022 will be – as in 2021 – around 15 billion euros....

A Revolutionary Die Lip Adjustment System Set to Be Introduced by Nordson at K 2022 The new, patent pending EDI Prodigi system takes extrusion and coating processes to another level by fully automating the lip gap adjustment – making it...

Tracing and Recycling Plastics The cross-company cooperative project R-Cycle was officially launched. The objective is to ensure the recyclability of plastic packaging through seamless documentation of all recycling-relevant packaging properties. Only in this way can recyclable waste be precisely identified...

Comexi and Reifenhäuser Produce Fully Recyclable All-PE Pouches Reifenhäuser, the experts for plastics extrusion, and Comexi, leading provider of packaging machines, are starting a pilot project for the high-quality recycling of flexible pouches. The collaboration intends to demonstrate that harnessing...

Polifilm Extrusion Starts Pilot Project For the Wholesale Trade Polifilm Extrusion starts an R-Cycle pilot project for the wholesale trade. The aim is to demonstrate how R Cycle works using the example of stretch film in a real application in...

Consortium Members Present Pilot Projects at Second Face-to-Face Meeting On October 6 all the members of the R-Cycle Consortium met for their second strategic face-to-face meeting. Arburg, Kautex Maschinenbau, Reifenhäuser, the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) at the RWTH Aachen,...