More than 200,000 people will visit K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a showcase for anyone with anything new related to plastics and associated processing technologies, including extrusion. So, you can’t afford to miss it, right? Well, not quite.

A half-century-old technology is still garnering packaging awards today. High-barrier Polyfoil technology was an integral part of three tube-based healthcare products that received high-profile recognition recently, announced Hoffmann Neopac (Thun, Switzerland).

Originally developed by Graham Engineering (York, PA) for its extrusion blow molding systems and then adapted for sheet extrusion lines, the Navigator controls are now available for American Kuhne extrusion systems.

The latest upgrade to the SmartServices monitoring platform for auxiliary equipment from Conair (Stamford, CT) gives users greater control over what they see and how they measure performance.