The system from Dark Field Technologies (Shelton, CT) is designed to work with cast film and plastic sheet and film.

Industry 4.0–ready technology and advanced controls deliver energy efficiency and reliability.

Plastics processors represented more than half of the manufacturers surveyed, and their priorities differed from the general manufacturing population. For instance, 38% of all manufacturers use real-time monitoring to improve quality control. For plastics manufacturers, that figure jumps to 61%.

The new facility in Münster, Germany, more than triples the company’s amount of manufacturing, R&D and office space, and combines operations that previously were spread across four separate sites.