There is little doubt where we are heading: multilayer packaging will have to become easier to recycle – but what does that mean for the technology? And what solutions will the market need and accept? Manufacturers of branded goods are not the only ones who will have to rethink their specifications.

How Film Packaging Will Have to Develop

Verpackungsmaterial

Logistik

Klotz, Karlhorst, Dr.

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Europe Needs to Catch up

With innovations in metrology, processing and automation, the film industry is again pursuing the goal of process optimization and digitalization this year. But efficiency and sustainability are also the focus of the machine manufacturers, who will be serving up pioneering innovations at K 2019.

The Circular Economy – Sustainable yet Efficient?

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Extrusion

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A Perfect Concept All Round

A machine manufacturer is expanding its wide program of cast and blown film lines with a system for water-quenched blown film extrusion. This provides a unique system portfolio for the production of flexible packaging. The article presents these extrusion processes, their specific characteristics and the resulting application areas. 

Medizintechnik

Film Production: System Options for Wafer-Thin Protection 

Beumer Group packs a wide variety of goods using its stretch hood lines and films that are often custom-made. Safely and economically.

Stretch hood lines are initially more expensive than stretch wrapping lines. However, they offer an advantage for many tasks

Schneid- und Wickelmaschinen für Folien

Special Requirements of Jam and Roof Tiles

The increasing volume of plastic waste and the growing pollution of the oceans by such waste have brought the sustainable handling of plastic products into the focus of society and politics. Both recycling and bioplastics can be a part of a strategy for greater sustainability, but they are not free of side effects. In order to avoid irrational decisions, it is important to assess their effects comprehensively.

If a film is used in the packaging sector, it should be made of at least a recycled material – leading to the common opinion that assumes that materials in circulation are automatically more sustainable. However, a detailed life cycle analysis, which considers all relevant energy and material flows on the basis of a generally valid calculation method, shows that it is not that simple

3D View of Sustainability

Why Recycled Films Are Not Necessarily Sustainable

Desire for hygiene and food safety increase worldwide demand for flexible packaging films.

Plant of Brückner Maschinenbau in Siegsdorf, Germany

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KU-Verarbeitungsmaschinen allgemein

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 Brückner Maschinenbau to Increase Order Intake Significantly in 2020

Way2K: Interview between VDMA and Peter Steinbeck, CEO of Windmöller & Hölscher KG

“We have the role of an ambassador”, says Peter Steinbeck, CEO of Windmöller & Hölscher KG.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

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“We Have the Role of an Ambassador”

What defects can the systems detect? Can the measurement data be used for process control? What is the technical standard and how are the inspection systems used?

Film inspection system in a blown film line: the image processing systems detect surface defects such as gels, black specks, fish eyes, coating cracks, streaks, flow lines or insects.

16:9

Process Optimization and Cost Reduction by Standards

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Bildverarbeitungssysteme

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Form- / Oberflächenmesstechnik

Film Inspection for  Medical Applications

From the French Fry Bag to the Cement Bag to the Plastic Film.

View into the heart of a Varex II blown film system.

Extrusionsblasformen

Blasformen

Schröder, Susanne

On the Spot at Windmöller & Hölscher

Brückner Maschinenbau focuses its trade show presence on higher plant efficiency and sustainable film production.

BOPP and BOPET are among the most popular packaging films. They are now produced on lines at speeds of over 600 m/min.

Faster and Wider BO Lines

World premieres, technological advancements and joint projects: there was plenty of evidence at K of the impressive progress made in sustainable solutions in extrusion in many different directions over the past number of years.

During the daily machine show, Windmöller & Hölscher demonstrated a fast product changeover per autopilot. When K finished, the line was delivered to IsoFlex Packaging, in Nashville, TN/USA.

In the field of film extrusion and processing the number one topic at this year's K was the circular economy and sustainability.

A Common Goal: The Circular Economy

Brückner Maschinenbau has developed mono-material packaging solutions to close the life cycle of plastic packaging as requested by brand owners and legislations.

Examples of monomaterial plastic packaging based on biaxially stretched films of PP, PET or, more recently, PE.

Messe Interpack

How Recycling Goals Can Be Achieved

August Mink KG, Göppingen, Germany, has introduced spreading rollers suitable for narrow webs and installation in very confined spaces. The type BSW-PP rollers are intended for use with web widths of up to one meter – a size often encountered in production of incontinence briefs. They do not require a separate drive and are almost wear- and maintenance-free. 

Crease-free Smoothing 

spreading roller type BSW-PP 

New tasks lie ahead for polycarbonate films inside vehicles. The latest design ideas aim to create in the car interior a personalized, stylish ambience that creates a good atmosphere and offers high levels of comfort. This calls for large parts featuring numerous integrated functions and a flowing, intact surface characterized by depth of gloss. 

Polycarbonat

Polycarbonate Film: Custom Interior Design 

With the help of a computer simulation it is possible to visualize the effects of the targeted positioning of functional materials and different sealing media on film flexural strength. Results for specimen systems show that ionomers, which have stiffnesses that can be adjusted within broad limits as well as very good sealing properties, offer a wide range of opportunities to reduce the thickness of such multi-layer films without at the same time having to accept a loss in flexural strength. 

Multi-layer Packaging Films: More Flexural Strength for Thin Films 

Brückner Maschinenbau Places Major Order with Coperion

Brückner Maschinenbau has placed an order with Coperion for more than 50 ZSK Mc18 twin screw extruders.

Brückner Maschinenbau, a leading manufacturer of film stretching lines, has placed an order with Coperion for more than 50 ZSK Mc18 twin screw extruders. These will be integrated into plants for the production of flexible BOPET packaging films, which Brückner will install in China. The ZSK extruders have screw diameters ranging from 70 to 177 mm.

Brückner Maschinenbau’s substantial repeat order is based on many years of close cooperation with Coperion. With this order, Brückner is once again putting their trust in proven Coperion technology, which the company has already integrated into numerous film stretching lines. The ZSK extruders are used to melt the compounds that are fed into the lines. Thanks to their high torque, Coperion’s ZSK Mc18 extruders achieve very high throughput rates while maintaining low product temperatures and thus ensuring first-class product quality.

“We are very pleased that Brückner Maschinenbau is once again relying on our technology and know-how,” says Jochen Schofer, Business Segment Manager Recycling & Direct Extrusion at Coperion. “We very much appreciate this familiar, long-standing cooperation with the pioneer for plastic film lines. Our companies pursue very similar aspirations. We both develop high-quality technologies for plastics production with very high throughput rates. The efficient use of resources and high recyclability of the end products are important to us.”

Coperion GmbH  

https://www.coperion.com

Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH  

https://www.brueckner.com

 Plastic film stretching line from Brückner Maschinenbau, in which ZSK extruders from Coperion take over the melting of the compounds

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