NEWS


Strong Q2 growth for US machinery


North American shipments of plastics machinery grew by 6.0% year on year in Q2 of 2017 according to statistics compiled and reported by the Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). The growth comes after three consecutive quarterly


declines. In value terms, the change represents a rise from $316.6m in Q2 2016 to $335.6m in Q2 2017. According to the CES


data, shipments of twin- screw extruders (including both co-rotating and counter-rotating machines) were up by 56% while single-screw extruder


shipments were down by 16%. Injection moulding machinery shipments were up by 9%; blow moulding machines down by 2%. The latest quarterly data also showed that the eight-year upward trend in shipments of auxiliary equipment may have levelled off, although exact comparisons are difficult in this area due to data uncertainty. Analyst Bill Wood of Mountaintop Economics & Research, who compiled the report, said that the US economy’s ability to sustain this upward trend into the 2H was uncertain. � www.plasticsindustry.org


Barrier preforms on show


Solvay Specialty Polymers and Husky Injection Molding Systems are launching Verian high barrier polyester (HBP). This was on show at


Huksy’s stand at Drinktec in 2017 in Munich in September, being processed for a 17g carbonated soft drink application on a HyPET HPP5 fully integrated preform manufacturing system. Other features include an advanced melt delivery system and highly sophisticated controls. � www.solvay.com � www.husky.co


Euromap’s data exchange update


A second release candidate of Euro- map 77 has been published, to provide a standardised information model for data exchange between injection moulding machines and manufacturing execution systems (MES) via OPC UA. This follows the release of the first in October 2016. The second release followed on from several projects to develop


further information models, which meant that a higher-level structure became necessary. Several injection moulding machine manufacturers and MES providers will implement and test the interface before the final version is rolled out in early 2018. In addition, a release candidate of


Euromap 83 is available for comment on the website of Euromap, the European


organisation of plastics and rubber machine manufacturers. Reusable information blocks will be defined in Euromap 83 to avoid duplicating work and inconsistencies. All future models of plastics and rubber machines will build on it and specify the generic definitions for individual applications and machine combinations. � www.euromap.org


Sipa and Erema demo rPET preform system


Sipa and Erema have held an open house event at the former’s headquarters at Vittorio Veneto, Italy. This demonstrated the direct processing of washed recycled PET flakes to make food contact grade pre- forms on the world’s first


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rPET Inline Preform system, which was previewed in 2016. It will be in industrial operation next year. This technology com- bines the Xtreme preform production system from Sipa, a specialist in PET blow moulding systems, with


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Vacurema technology from Erema, which makes plastic recycling systems. According to the two


firms, this offers PET proces- sors such benefits as energy savings, lower logistics and process costs, by directly linking the two systems and


eliminating waste. It also offers 8% lighter weights than possible with conven- tional injection moulding, while maintaining weight consistency, viscosity and colour values. � www.sipa.it � www.erema.com


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