Plastics Engineering-Worldwide Industry News and Notes

(6/16/2010) Worldwide Industry News and Notes Managing Editor Daniel J. Domoff; At NPE, Processing Technologies, LLC (PTi) of Aurora, Illinois USA, showed its TITAN Plus®, based on Allen-Bradley ControlLogix software platform and the PanelView operator interface. The company says that the TITA► read more

GLOBALINE® extruder cuts cost, lead times

(6/16/2010) October 26,2009 | Robert Grace, Associate Editor/Publisher Processing Technologies International LLC has unveiled its GLOBALINE® range of sheet extrusion lines, its first global brand. PTi recently demonstrated a compact unit designed to make sheet for in-line thermoforming. PTi also offer► read more

Plastics Technology "Keep it Clean"

(6/16/2010) Plastics Technology | December 2009 By Matthew H. Naitove, Executive Editor "PLA is very sensitive to contamination—even more than PET," cautions McIntosh. "You must keep it clean. All the more so if you run a PET or PS line right next to a PLA line or switch b► read more

Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors

(6/16/2010) Plastics Technology Jan Schutt, Contributing Editor ...Peninsula has three coextrusion lines with six unvented single-screw extruders, paired two by two. The first two lines together produce 150,000 lb/day of rollstock. They originally had vacuum pumps and vents, “but the pumps failed almo► read more

Bandera, PTi Team Up On Energy Efficient, "Dryer-less" PET/PLA Sheet Systems

(6/16/2010)Aurora IL – Luigi Bandera Meccaniche S.p.A., Milan, Italy and Processing Technologies International, LLC, Aurora, IL have announced a strategic business alliance to supply energy-efficient sheet extrusion systems for processing PET/PLA without the use of traditional preconditioning dryers► read more

Extrusion: Bandera, PTi team for PET/PLA sheet lines

(6/16/2010) By MPW Staff Published: March 1st, 2010 Extrude hydrophilic materials PET and PLA with no need for pre-drying: That's the promise being made by extruder manufacturers PTi and Bandera, which have teamed up to offer dryer-less extrusion lines for processing sheet from these materials. The agree► read more

PTI teams with Italy's Bandera for dryerless sheet lines

(6/16/2010) By Bill Bregar | PLASTICS NEWS STAFF Posted February 25, 2010 AURORA, ILL. (Feb. 25, 11:50 a.m. Et) -- Italy’s Bandera Luigi Costruzioni Meccaniche SpA has teamed up with Processing Technologies LLC to supply dryerless sheet lines to the North American market, for running PET and polylact► read more

PTi to sell Bandera sheet machines in North America

(6/16/2010) Lou Reade/Editor February/March Issue Processing Technologies International (PTi) is to sell Luigi Bandera’s dryer-less sheet technology in North America. The sheet extrusion systems are used to process PET/PLA without the need for traditional preconditioning dryers and crystallisers. The► read more

Bandera, PTi team up for PET/PLA sheet lines

(6/16/2010) Extrude hydrophilic materials PET and PLA with no need for pre-drying: That’s the promise being made by extruder manufacturers PTi and Bandera, which have teamed up to offer dryerless extrusion lines for processing sheet from these materials. The agreement bet► read more

Russian Roulette-Plastics Packaging

(6/16/2010) Editor: Steven Pacitti | April 2010 ...For McAllister, companies appear to be focusing more on domestic production as the currencies of these countries are reassessed and the unrealistic exchange rates based on the oil economy and building boom of Russia have leveled► read more

Sheet Extrusion System suits inline thermoforming/roll stock in Russia

(6/16/2010) Tim Sykes | Editor Since March 2010 mm-agencies have been representing PTI in Eastern Europe and Russia, the system has been receiving a high level of interest from producers in the region with several projects under consideration. The systems adaptability and fast start up times of► read more

Efficiency gains help PET sheet production

(4/16/2010) Lou Read Editor | April/May 2010 ...Italy’s Luigi Bandera, whose High Vacuum Twin Screw Extruder (HVTSE) technology can be used to process PET (and PLA) without pre-drying, will now be more widely available in North America, following a tie-up with Processing Technologies Internationa► read more