Bi-oriented polypropylene film producer Taghleef Industries (Ti) announces a major investment in its Hungarian manufacturing plant that the company says will boost up its 5-layer capacity in Europe.
Nirav Desai, director of operations at Haremar Plastic Manufacturing, discusses the importance of sustainability in flexible packaging—and not just for the planet. Desai has been at Haremar for 11 years.
As you may have read in World Bioplastics, a November 2013 industry study conducted by The Freedonia Group, the global demand for biobased or biodegradable plastics will rise 19 percent to 950,000 metric tons in 2017.
The Festo exhibit at Converters Expo 2014 in Green Bay, WI offers a wide range of pneumatic actuators and control solutions designed for systematically quicker paper and pulp production, reduction of overall costs, and ultimately more intelligent process and factory automation from a single source.
Multiple industries utilize and rely on internationally accepted test standards to provide repeatable methods for comparison and quality assurance purposes.
Simply setting parameters, rather than configuring and programming, is the essential advantage of a new standard “winder” application that can be directly integrated into today’s drive systems.
Winding and unwinding must be handled with consideration given to the speed of the winder, the control processing times and the implementation of that control scheme into the overall machine design, to achieve greater efficiency.