TECHNOLOGY | MACHINERY EXTRUSION MACHINERY


KraussMaffei lays foundation stone for new extrusion systems facility


KraussMaffei laid the foundation stone earlier this month for its new 66,500m2


extrusion


systems production plant at Laatzen, near Hanover in Germany. The new facility will be completed by Q3 2022 and will replace the company’s Kleefeld factory — the traditional home of the Berstorff extrusion business — which it says could not be expanded any further. It will allow all KraussMaffei extrusion


MULTI-LAYER PIPE PE100 pipe on the rise in Myanmar


A pipe manufacturer in Myanmar recently took delivery of a line from Tecnomatic of Italy, to produce multi-layer pipes. Authentic Production uses the line to make pipes up to 630mm in diameter. The multi-layer pipe


made by Authentic has two layers – equating to 10% and 90% of the total


thickness. The outer layer is made from a PE100 material with high stress crack resistance (HSCR), while the core is made from standard PE100. This requires two separate extruders: the main extruder is from the Zephyr series in L/D 40 which offers high output performance and lower melt temperature and energy


consumption; the inner layer is produced from an Atlas series in L/D 30. Both extruders are


synchronised using gravi- metric feed on each extruder to maintain a continuous raw material feed and to record varia- tions in mass throughput, ensuring tight control of the weight per metre and wall thickness distribution. The line also includes


Tecnomatic’s Venus Multi pipe heads, which are designed to process a wide range of materials at very high output. The spiral geometry has been opti- mised for the latest genera- tion of PE and PP raw materials, while reducing overall length, volume and operating pressure. � www.tecnomaticsrl.net


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activities to be located under one roof. Around 750 people will work on the site, which will include a 10,000m2


tion Centre, within which Innova-


customers will be able to run complex preliminary line trials under realistic produc- tion conditions before ordering new machines. The centre will house 20


machines ranging from laboratory to production- scale. KraussMaffei is working with commercial real estate developer VGP on the project. It recently complet- ed construction of a new factory for the company’s Burgsmüller subsidiary in Einbeck in Germany and is also building the new KraussMaffei Technologies HQ at Parsdorf near Munich (the foundation stone for that was also laid this month). � www.kraussmaffei.com


RECYCLING


Granulator series with high output


CMG of Italy says that its EV916 and EV616 granulators, part of its Evoluzione series, can handle throughputs of 2,000-5,000 kg/hour. High precision con- struction in the new cutting chamber helps extend the duration of the blades compared to conventional models. Operating tempera-


ture, blade wear, produc- tivity, operational efficien- cy, energy use and other functional parameters are managed on the machine or remotely, with connec- tivity based on the OPC-UA protocol. � www.cmg.it


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