PLAST 2018 | EXHIBITION REVIEW
Made in Italy: Plast 2018 review
While Plast 2018 attracted a number of foreign visitors and hosted numerous international exhibitors, many of the innovations there were
home-grown.Peter Mapleston and reports on some of the highlights from the show
Italy is a hotbed of development in extrusion equipment, so it was no surprise that Plast 2018 – held just outside Milan from May 29 to June 1 ear- lier this year – threw up some interesting innova- tions for pipe and profile extrusion. Friul Filiere was one of several companies
celebrating important anniversaries at the show – in this case, 40 years. It took the opportunity to present its latest extrusion line, the Futura 40, which it says fits in with the Industry 4.0 ‘smart factory’ concept. Dario Ermacora, the company’s general sales
manager, says Friul Filiere is unique in its ability to produce every element of a profile extrusion line, based on single- and twin-screw extruders, including conical types.
“Our customers want us to collaborate on equipment design – even down to the design of
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the profiles themselves, and also the materials they use,” he said. The company offers three types of downstream equipment: Classical, Omega, and Futura. Omega differs from Classical in that it is a ‘plug and play’ design with a unified control system. Futura is also compact but offers more functionality. At the show, Friul Filiere showed a line making
profiles from a PVC compound that was loaded with a filler derived from rice husks. It was also highlighting an agreement it struck with vinyls specialist Ineos and German company Resysta, which specialises in various types of façade products. Resysta says its environment-friendly products are made from “60% rice husks, 22% common salt and 18% mineral oil” – which is a cute way of saying ‘filled PVC’.
Main image: Visitors to Plast 2018 discovered a number of extrusion innovations
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