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- Issue 04 | 2021
Think big,build small
Sulzer’s processing technologies enable effective small-scale bioplastic manufacturing - Issue 04 | 2021
Improved coextrusion
Biopolymer extrusion coating with edge encapsulation increases line speed and reduces coat weight - Issue 06 | 2017
Optimize processability of bioplastics
Working closely with sustainability partner, Dynisco, (Franklin, Massachusetts, USA,) Glycon Corp. (Tecumseh, Michigan, USA,) has incorporated Dynisco’s breakthrough technology in analytical ... - Issue 05 | 2016
Twins help melting
Melting efficiency performance for various polylactide resins in a co-rotating intermeshing twin screw extruder - Issue 01 | 2006
Plastics – naturally ! Compounding of plastics from renewable resources
FKuR Kunststoff GmbH, Willich, Germany has been developing bio-degradable plastics for more than 10 years now. During the co-operation that started in 1998 together with Fraunhofer Institut UMSICHT, ... - Issue 02 | 2006
Making preforms for PLA bottles...
Although the name might suggest otherwise, the PETline injection moulding systems offered by the Swiss manufacturer Netstal for the production of preforms for plastic bottles can also be used for ... - Issue 02 | 2006
Twin Screw Extrusion Systems for Biobased Resins
High speed, energy input (HSEI) twin screw extruders are emerging as the manufacturing methodology of choice to process bio-based renewable materials. - Issue 01 | 2007
PLA – The Future of Rigid Packaging?
Brückner Formtec develops line concept tailored to PLA - Issue 02 | 2007
Blowing Your Own PLA Bottles
Article contributed by Bruce Kucera, Vice President of Norland International Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Issue 02 | 2007
Interview: PLA blow moulding
The first PLA-bottle in the USA, introduced by Biota from Ouray, Colorado and the first one in Europe from Belu, London, UK are stretch lowmoulded on BLOMAX machines from SIG Corpoplast, Hamburg, ... - Issue 04 | 2007
Oriented films continue their successful run – even with PLA
Practically everybody uses them to protect sensitive goods – high-quality stretched plastics are undoubtedly the number one within the world of packaging material. - Issue 02 | 2008
Extrusion Lines for Processing of Biodegradable Raw Materials
The focus of Reifenhäuser, a leading manufacturer of high-performance extrusion lines, is on consistent research and further development of line concepts. - Issue 03 | 2008
Rigid PLA Packaging for Meat Products
Since the sizes of meat counters in self-service supermarkets have been reduced to an absolute minimum the distribution of meat and poultry, fish and several types of convenient-food are sold in ... - Issue 06 | 2008
Film Extrusion of Bioplastics
In film extrusion, new line concepts and specially adapted technology are required when processing bioplastics. Reifenhäuser of Troisdorf, Germany, one of the first members of the European ... - Issue 05 | 2009
Twin-Screw Extruders for Biopolymer Compounding
ENTEK Manufacturing, Inc., headquartered in Lebanon, Oregon, USA, the leading U.S. based manufacturer of twin-screw extruders and replacement wear parts, recently introduced customized twin-screw ... - Issue 03 | 2010
Twin screw extrusion for wet PLA
American Leistritz Extruder Corporation has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 MAXX twin screw extrusion systems and related auxiliary equipment in its‘ New Jersey process laboratory to process ‚wet‘ PLA ...