MATERIALS • SERVICES • EQUIPMENT
advantages in terms of dimensional control burn and endurance burn capabilities for a
and superior adhesion to the substrate. variety of flame arrester designs. Used in
association with our existing in-line flame
Keronite arrester testing equipment, we are now able
Tel: +44 1223 893 222 to provide the most comprehensive facilities
Email: info@keronite.com available for testing to ISO 16852:2008 and
Web: www.keronite.com other world wide performance standards.”
advantage of this closer, quicker and more
Elmac Technologies Ltd
comfortable regrinding service last year.
Tel: +44 1352 717600
Circular, straight and rotary shear knives: On
Email: sales@elmactechnologies.com
Dienes’ latest generation CNC/NC machines
Web: www.elmactechnologies.com
and under the professional supervision of
highly skilled and experienced professionals,
all these knives are resharpened as new ones, solution and don’t realise that they cannot
Cosmetics Industry
to grant considerable increases in simply ‘drop’ in an alternative refrigerant on
productivity, longevity and slitting edge top of the old one; The system will, as an
Lucite International (LI), a leading producer of
quality. The Dienes Regrinding Service offers: absolute minimum need to be thoroughly
methacrylate materials, has launched Lucite
precision grinding; pick-up and drop-off purged of all traces of R22 and the oil
Diakon Rapide, an advanced acrylic with
service; transport boxes; 48h regrinding replaced with a compatible alternative,” warns
glass-like properties, which has been quickly
service; and Kaizen analyses. Ray Paice, EWS National Sales Manager.
adopted as an innovative packaging solution
Dienes Werke für Eaton-Williams Service
by the cosmetics industry. The new product
cools and solidifies more quickly than
Maschinenteile GmbH & Ltd
ordinary acrylic when injection moulded,
Co. KG
Tel: +44 1732 868282
which means that the cycle times, and
Email: info@eaton-williams.com
therefore cost per part are significantly
Tel: +49 2206 605 214
Web Cleaner for Plastic
Web: www.eaton-williams.com
reduced. Trials with an established partner in
Email: sandra.neyer@dienes.de
France show that on a production unit with 16
Bag Manufacture
Web: www.dienes.de
cavities for lip-gloss containers, the cooling
‘End-of-Line’ Flame
time is reduced by at least three seconds;
In every manufacturing industry, improving
Warning to Refrigerant
Arrester
improving existing efficiencies by 20-30%.
quality and reducing wastage is of prime
And the potential exists for even greater
importance. None more so than in plastic bag
Users reductions in overall cycle-time as customers
Elmac Technologies has developed a state-of-
manufacture, where the Series 1000 Web
redesign their downstream process around
the-art, end-of-line flame arrester test rig at its
Cleaner from Meech International is
As heavy users of refrigerants, the process this improvement, for example speeding up
UK manufacturing and technology centre.
successfully used around the world to remove
industry is being warned by Eaton-Williams robots and packing lines. Higher output rates
Embracing the very latest high-speed data
waste particles, or chad, after the die cutting
Service (EWS) that the clock is ticking and from existing units achieve both energy
acquisition hardware, this latest test apparatus
process. When manufacturing plastic bags,
users need to start replacing HCFCs with savings and the potential to avoid capital
will sit alongside the company’s existing in-line
the film is printed and then goes through a die
alternative refrigerants before the ban kicks in investment in additional capacity as demand
flame arrester test solution, a highly advanced
cutting process to either add ventilation holes
at the end of 2009. Although recycled for packaging increases. LI has earned a
or to punch a Euroslot. After die cutting, the
refrigerants will be permissible, at current
facility that was commissioned in 2007.
strong and well-established reputation within
film is then rewound and sent on to
reclaim rates there will not be sufficient
“Through our ongoing investment in testing
the point-of-sale and corporate identity
customers to be used to wrap items before
quantities of recycled refrigerants available to
and R&D equipment,” comments Elmac
sectors where its innovative Perspex range
being sent to the stores or to be used directly
meet maintenance demands between now
Technologies’ Managing Director, Dr. Martin
has long been the product of choice for major
by the shopper. Most die cutting machines
and the total phase out in January 2015. EWS
Cooling, “we are now able to offer customers
brands.
come complete with a vacuum system
also advises that although there are
access to the most modern apparatus
designed to remove these waste particles and
alternative “drop-in” refrigerants available,
available for establishing flame arrester
Lucite International
would all work extremely well if it wasn’t for
care needs to be taken choosing the right one
performance. In developing what we believe to
Tel: +44 870 2404620
the inherent static problem encountered due
for their application; what is ok for an air
be the most state-of-the-art end-of-line flame
Email: contactus@lucite.com
to the nature of the plastic film. Plastics
conditioning system will not suit a processing
arrester test facility of its type,” he added, “we
Web: www.lucitesolutions.com
generally have very high resistivities and this
application. “Many users will be under the
have created a controlled environment in
allows them to maintain static charges for
impression that ‘drop-ins’ are an instant
which to monitor accurately both short-time
long periods of time. This means that due to
the electrostatic charge, the chad remains on
the material and becomes trapped between
the film layers as they rewind. This has
serious quality consequences as the end-user
will receive contaminated stock and reject the
batch, resulting in the manufacturer having to
either throw away the film or rewind and
remove the chad. Both options cost valuable
resources and affect the bottom line. The
Meech Series 100 web cleaner combines
static eliminators, brushes and a high-power
vacuum dust collection system that has been
designed with a unique, highly efficient
vacuum control plate that gives complete
coverage of the material surface.
Meech International
Tel: +44 1993 706700
Email: sales@meech.com
Web: www.meech.com
Regrinding Service
Dienes Group, worldwide leading
manufacturer of industrial slitting technology,
can look back on a record year in 2007 with
regard to its Manufacturer’s Regrinding
Service. More customers than ever from
Germany, Austria and Switzerland have taken
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