KraussMaffei still makes extruders in Laatzen, Germany. The Florence facility will only make pipe, profile and sheet extruders ... should shave months off the machine build, he said.

Some compounding lines feature a twin-screw extruder or continuous mixer for the compounding operation followed by a melt-fed, single-screw extruder for material pressurization for pelletization. A ...

manufacturing nylon plastics, nylon carpet fiber, and chemical intermediates for use in nylon products. However, it will close its nylon industrial fiber manufacturing unit by the end of May.

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Machinery builders for processing plastics to manufacture medical devices are putting a spotlight on robots and the extrusion of complicated medical tubing this week at MD&M West 2025. Sumitomo ...

Every year we need to go back and take probes and samples for testing and make sure they continue to be compliant,” Bock says. Plastics Technology covers technical and business Information for ...

German film and sheet extruder Epsotech (Jülich-Kirchberg; www.epsotech.de) said it is expanding its commitment to using post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials with products containing ...

Flat to weak growth is on the cards, according to Thorsten Kühmann, MD of plastics and rubber machinery at the German association (Photo: VDMA) The German engineering federation VDMA (Frankfurt; ...