Extrusion: Film & Sheet

New facility opening in mid-2021 will play an important role in accelerating the flexible packaging vendor’s product development, application testing and analytical capabilities.

Postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak, the largest plastics show of the year now will be held on Aug. 3 to 6, 2020, in Shanghai.

The brand’s lead packaging engineer identifies nine key aspects in the 18 months' R&D required to make Bear Naked brand granola bites and cereal pouches recyclable.

Ohm’s Law lets us calculate power consumed by an extrusion motor. But at this week’s co-located PLASTEC West and MD&M West show, it’s medtech OEMs that largely lay down the law for extruders. A separate event devoted to marijuana packaging...

After more than 50 years, Elkay Plastics Co. (Los Angeles) is rebranding itself as LK Packaging.

The SPE Shape Extrusion Topcon 2020 will feature more than 20 presentations led by experts from industry and academe and members of the SPE Extrusion Board of Directors in Nashville in May.

The Weigh Scale Blender 1200 series from Maguire (Aston, PA) has a throughput range of 900 to 2,040 kg/hr (2,000 to 4,500 lb/hr) and is suitable for extrusion, high-volume injection and blow molding, and central blending applications.

People remain resourceful in trying conditions as these images prove showing how some in China reused and adapted packaging for personal protection from the coronavirus.

The event was scheduled for April 21 to 24 in Shanghai. New dates will be announced at a later time, announced event organizer Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd. today.

Ampacet’s (Tarrytown, NY) Revive masterbatch additive permits post-consumer and -industrial plastic waste to be reprocessed back into the polyolefin recycling stream.