event report | Plast 2015
now has the capacity to produce around 10,000 twin-screw extruder gearboxes per year; it currently sells around 6,000, and is targeting to reach full capacity over the next three years. Alessandro Feller, the company’s export sales manager, claimed that torque transmission on Zam- bello gearboxes “is the best in the world.” Gearboxes can produce torque density on co-rotating extruders of up to 18 Nm/cm3
figure is 23 Nm/cm3
and for counter-rotating types the . Many major extruder brands
feature Zambello gearboxes. On its stand, the company showed an example from its new TST-2H series for counter-rotating twin-screw extruders. The company introduced a new gearbox design for
Made in Italy: a mixer and a Ferrari compete for attention on the Plasmec stand
Promixon showed its wares for the first time at a Plast show. The company was set up around two years ago when two brothers owning the long-established Plasmec had a parting of ways. Promixon executives said they have “revisited” traditional mixer designs, and claimed to have managed to achieve notable improvements in energy efficiency in the overall heating/cooling mixer combination, mostly through a new cooling design. The company offers a full range of mixing equipment, for masterbatch, polymers and the like. Plasmec itself used Plast as the launch pad for Plasmec Formul@1, which it described as “a new way of relating with clients” over issues concerning the use of its machinery. It said the new concept covers areas such as maintenance, process, use and management. It employs an innovative logging system for the adminis- tration of technical assistance cases, plus it provides a route to access information and to share current and future joint projects. The company said that Plasmec Formul@1 would also be the foundation of a future project that will see the creation of archives shared between the company and its customers in a confidential environment. Gearbox producer Zambello said that it has been making big investments to increase production, and
Plast in numbers The exhibiting area at Plast 2015 of 55,000 m2 was 3% down on 2012.
However, there were 5% more companies exhibiting – 1,558 from 60 countries.
The number of visitors was down slightly, from 50,593 to 50,087 over
the five days. Of these, just over 18,000 came from outside Italy, and of these, 71.4% came from Europe. As reported in last month’s Compounding World, the next Plast show
will take place on 26-30 September 2017, instead of the originally planned dates in May 2018. This move is designed to avoid what will be a very busy period for international plastics exhibitions in the first half of 2018. ❙
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conical extruders some two years ago, and Feller said it has been well received especially in China; Zambello is now hoping to repeat that success in Europe. Having begun with smaller models, the company has now rounded out the range, which now numbers ten, and covers extruders up to 95 mm Feller said the US market is going particularly well
for the company at the moment. In India, meanwhile, the company recently opened a new sales office to cater for the local market.
More information We published additional information about exhibitors at Plast 2015 in our show preview which can be viewed at:
http://bit.ly/CWplast.
Click on the links for more information: ❙
www.icmasg.it ❙
www.comacplast.com ❙
www.mariscorp.com ❙
www.bausano.it ❙
www.farrel-pomini.com ❙
www.promixon.com ❙
www.plasmec.it ❙
www.zambello.it
PHOTO: PETER MAPLESTON
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