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The show keeps ticking along over the weekend. The hot ticket on Saturday is the lavish K Party, which this year is being headlined by Sister Sledge ("We Are Family"). Sunday, the show traditionally attracts large numbers of families and local residents, and the give-aways are flying off the stands. All along, business, and the K Show Daily, go on.

John Clark

October 31, 2010

3 Min Read
K Weekend Edition

Reifenhäuser: Two major German processing equipment makers took the opportunity of the K to sign a cooperation supply deal. Extruder manufacturer Reifenhäuser (Stand 17A21) will provide an undisclosed number of extruders for Langenhagen, Germany-based BBM Maschinenbau (Stand 14B37), a maker of blowmolding lines. Read more here.

Moretto: The company has launched its OTX drying hopper concept, changing the internal shape of the hopper to optimize material flow so that material exiting the hopper does so with uniform temperatures of 185°C and consistent moisture levels. Read more here.

Unicor: Corrugator equipment maker Unicor (Stand 16D59) has come out at the show with a model to produce medium-sized drainage and cable-ducting pipes. The UC320 is said to offer a 40% higher output (up to 25 m/min double-wall pipe) than the company’s UC250 line, which company’s managing director Klaus Kaufmann says will eventually be withdrawn from the market. Read more here.

Kafrit: Now that biopolymers are finally starting to come into their own, growth in this segment is really taking off, even showing year-on-year double-digit rates, said Noam Stahl, CTO at Kafrit, one of the four companies making up the Israeli-based Kafrit Group (Stand 7C20). For a company with the slogan “Giving Life to Plastics,” this can only be good news. Read more here.

Wittmann Battenfeld: A team from the UK's Bradford University visited the Wittmann Battenfeld stand in Hall 16 on Friday in order to finalize the purchase of a new Battenfeld MicroPower molding machine. Read more here.

Messe Düsseldorf: Talk to Petra Cullmann, director of the K show, about how successful the show has progressed so far, and she resolutely refuses to count her chickens before they’ve hatched. But clearly the first few days of the show have given her plenty to smile about, with the visitor numbers so far running almost neck-and-neck with those from 2007, which was a record year for the plastics industry. Read more here.

Kraton: One of the hot displays at K 2010 is an automotive instrument panel slush-molded from a newly developed soft-skin compound based on a styrenic block copolymer (SBC). Read more here.

CMT Materials: Options for thermoforming are expanding with a new line of plug-assist products that deliver low heat-transfer properties, improved machinability, and toughness. Read more here.

Rollepaal: Two years of development work culminated with plastic-pipe equipment manufacturer Rollepaal (Stand 14C19) introducing a two-axis orientation process for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe, using air pressure and inline stretching via two independent pullers to stretch pipe in both the axial and circumferential direction. Read more here.

Materials roundup: Takati-Petri is introducing an airbag cover made from a renewably sourced thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) in one of several materials innovations introduced at K 2010. Plus more from Rhodia, PolyOne, Nanocyl, and Evonik. Read more here.

Yushin: “Why is a massive, several-hundred-pound robot needed to take out a molded part that weighs just a few hundred grams?” Yushin Precision Equipment (Stand 12E51) asked itself this question and decided to employ the process of design optimization—often used to maximize lightweighting in aircraft components—to rid its latest robot of as much mass as possible. Net result? A 13% lighter robot that boasts an 11% faster take-out and a 14% faster full cycle. Read more here.

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