15 Jun 2001
PEEK polymer selected for the stretch rod tips of injection stretch blow moulding machines
Aoki Technical Laboratory Inc. (President: Shigeto Aoki, Head office: Sakaki-machi, Nagano-pref.), Japan's dedicated manufacturer of injection stretch blow moulding machines, recently announced the addition of PEEK™ (polyaryletheretherketone) polymer to their moulding machine’s stretch rod tips. PEEK™ replaces polyamide resin.
1 Jun 2001
Akcros Chemicals America introduces lower cost one-pack stabilizers
Akcros Chemicals’ ongoing research and development has resulted in the market introduction of two new low cost, one-pack stabilizer systems. The new products, INTERSTAB® T-5172 and INTERSTAB® T-5201, extend the company’s already broad INTERSTAB® product family and are designed to offer greater cost-efficiency in rigid PVC applications, without any compromises in performance.
1 Jun 2001
Akcros Chemicals chooses K2001 to exhibit under Akzo Nobel banner for the first time
Akcros Chemicals will be exhibiting under the banner of its parent company, Akzo Nobel, for the first time since mid-1998 when they agreed to purchase the remaining fifty-percent of the joint venture from its partner Elementis.
1 Jun 2001
Axxicon launches the “horizontal” AIM™ Mould System
Based on 12 years experience and feedback from customers world wide, Axxicon has launched the “horizontal” AIM Mould System (see picture). Besides the existing advantages (ie quick-change, flexible, safe) the “horizontal” AIM Mould System has following additonal advantages:
31 May 2001
Engel automation technology: Growing dynamically – with the focus on productivity
Nowadays, handling devices and robots are "run-of-the-mill" equipment in the manufacturing industry. In an injection moulding shop, for example, the manual placing and removal of inserts is the exception rather than the rule, and the same goes for the feeding of moulded parts to downstream finishing stations. The prime aim of automation is not, however, to save "high labour costs" but, rather, to ensure high process and product quality, this being an absolute prerequisite in a modern production facility. Handling devices and robots operate in an exactly reproducible rhythm, and at extremely high speeds and round the clock. Besides injection moulding machines, Engel also offers matching automation systems – from the simple handling device to the complex production cell incorporating product-specific downstream finishing stations. Since all system units are produced by Engel, the responsibility for everything, including CE conformity, rests entirely with Engel. Engel automation, whether standard or special, partial or complete, permits reproducibility to the highest standard.
30 May 2001
Technyl rocker covers for Audi A4 and VW Passat engines
For the rocker cover of the new 75 kW Volkswagen Passat and Audi A4 engines Woco Franz Josef Wolf & Co. of Bad Soden-Salmünster, Germany has specified the high-performance polyamide TECHNYL A 218 MT15 V25 from Rhodia Engineering Plastics.
23 May 2001
ICO Petrochemical Processing Services to exhibit at K for the first time
Leuven, Belgium, May 2001 – ICO Petrochemical Processing Services will be exhibiting for the first time at the K show. ICO will be located at the American Pavilion in Hall 3, Stand 3E79-5 at the industry’s largest international triennial exhibition staged in Düsseldorf, Germany from October 25 to November 1, 2001.
21 May 2001
Continuous turbo mixer for throughput rates of up to 10 tonnes/hour
The hitherto largest continuous turbo mixer – the CTM 500 – has been supplied by the Mixing Technology Division of Thyssen Henschel Industrietechnik GmbH, Kassel/Germany, to the chemical firm of Kaucuk a.s., Kralupy nad Vitavou / Czech Republic, where it is being used for the continuous, high-speed coating of expandable polystyrene (EPS) with wetting and other agents prior to the expansion process. The mixer is capable of a throughput rate of up to 10 tonnes of EPS per hour.
