From May 3 to 6, 2022, Milan will host Greenplast for the first time, an exhibition/convention dedicated to materials, technologies, and converting processes for plastics and rubber, with a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability, recovery and recycling of materials, and energy efficiency.

Fabrizio Vanzan, Samantha Stefanini, Dario Previero (Amaplast President), Eleonora Iula, Mario Maggiani (CEO Promaplast) (from left) are looking forward to the new exhibition Greenplast

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Kunststoffverarbeitung

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Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Greenplast – A New Exhibition in Italy

There are various approaches to tackling the global problem of plastic waste in the sea. While producers are mainly focused on preventing dumping, processors can get involved in recycling the wastes into new products. The value chain begins with collection at sea. Support for this is provided by the public-private foundation Waste Free Oceans, an initiative of the European plastics recycling and converter sector. … Volker Scheel, CEO of K. D. Feddersen Holding GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, a partner company of Waste Free Oceans (WFO) 

Manufacturing Industry, Processors and the Fishing Sector Are Coming Together to Recycle Plastic Waste from the Sea 

Wiederaufbereitung

Umweltmanagement

Becoming Part of the Solution 

Virtual MeetingPack 2021, a prelude to MeetingPack 2022, will present innovations and address the challenges of the food packaging sector on 27 May through a series of presentations and round-table discussions.

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Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Biokunststoffe

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Packaging Sustainability and Incorporation of Recycled Material

The 35th International Exhibition on Plastics and Rubber Industries, Chinaplas 2022, scheduled to be held from 25–28 April 2022 at National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai will be postponed.

Due to Covid Chinaplas 2022, scheduled to be held from 25–28 April 2022 at National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, will be postponed.

Postponement of the Fair Trade Show

In the lead-up to the K 2013, the focus in compounding and recycling technology is predominantly on additions to existing product ranges. Further developments in the machine technology also enhance profitability, energy efficiency, machine availability and productivity. 

Compounding and Recycling: Extending the Boundaries 

The new quantec G3 is the third generation of this Buss Kneader series. For processing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into high-grade pellets, it features a further improvement in price/performance ratio, lower specific processing costs, and still higher throughputs. 

Aufbereitungsmaschinen

PVC Compounder: Throughput up, Costs down 

Laser Sintering is increasingly emerging as an additive manufacturing method for low-volume production. If it is to make the breakthrough to mass production, however, a way must be found of upcycling the excess polymer powder to obtain the highest-possible quality. This can be done by using melt volume-flow rate instruments to determine the quality of the material and devising a suitable refreshing strategy. 

Messtechnik

Messgeräte für Viskosität

Laser Sintering: Refreshing Strategies for Polyamide-12 Powder 

Cutting, homogenizing, heating, drying, compacting, buffering and dosing in a single step – this is the performance range of the cutter/compactor as a preparatory stage for the extruder. Previously the material inside the cutter/compactor turned in the same direction as the extruder. An Austrian recycling specialist has now put this principle “into reverse” and changed the rotating direction of the plastic material inside the cutter/compactor so it is opposite to the extruder’s flow direction. This means that the extruder is filled virtually pressure-free, never overfilled and thus better to control as a result. 

Extruder

Recycling: Counter Current Principle Improves Productivity 

Thanks to improved properties, plastics crosslinked by irradiation are increasingly offering an economic alternative to high-performance thermoplastics. Dr. Andreas Ostrowicki and Uwe Stenglin have been involved with this process since the very beginning and speak here about rapidly developed applications, promising ideas and how mid-size companies can keep up with the chemistry giants. 

Polyamide

Sondermaschinen

Crosslinked Plastics: A Radiant Future for Materials Properties 

At K2013, among machine and plant manufacturers, the picture was dominated by improvements of existing technologies and detail solutions. However, some genuine new developments were also presented. The focus continues to be on improving the efficiency and flexibility of compounding machines and systems. 

Schmelzefilter

Extrusion

Trend Report: The Devil Is in the Detail 

Machine and plant manufacturers used the trade fair to demonstrate the flexibility, efficiency, and simple handling of their systems. Particularly worthwhile methods for increasing the efficiency of molding processes are found in the sustainable and economic use of expensive raw materials, as well as the increased addition of regranulates. Energy efficiency plays a significant role mainly in material drying. 

Mischer

Dosierer

Fördersysteme

Trend Report: Complex Recipes Handled Flexibly and Precisely 

After over 30 months of development work, an Austrian machinery manufacturer presented a process for improving PET recycling. The first tests exceed the high expectations regarding increased intrinsic viscosity (IV) and higher decontamination performance and process stability. 

Polyethylenterephthalat

PET Recycling: Exploiting Molecular Mobility 

With its Infinity series plastics drum, Mauser Werke AG in Brühl, Germany, brings a new product series to the European market. These hazardous goods packagings are produced from 100 % high-quality recyclate by blow molding. The employed material is a high-molecular polyethylene recyclate obtained from used industrial packagings. The product portfolio comprises the open head drums of the O-Top series with a capacity of 30 to 220 liters and the classical 220 L-Ring Drum Plus. 

Drums from Recycled Plastics 

Simulation Verpackung

Verpackungsmaterial

Plastics Drums of the Infinity Series 

Torque density and specific free volume are two key criteria generally used in the performance evaluation of twin-screw extruders. The optimum compounder rating additionally involves numerous features that contribute to high cost-effectiveness combined with energy-efficient operation and excellent reliability. 

Unparalleled Cost-Effectiveness Through Optimized Torque Density and Free Volume  

Compounding Extruders  with a Promising Future 

Variations on the kneading elements of co-rotating twin-screw extruder were produced by an additive manufacturing process with the aim of increasing the processing engineering efficiency. A transparent barrel permits computer-aided quantification of the flow processes, allowing element-specific properties to be analyzed.  

Experimental Determination of the Flow Processes at Kneading Elements  

Making Mixing Transparent 

The next Plast – International Exhibition for the Plastics and Rubber Industries is scheduled for Tuesday-Friday, 5–8 September 2023 at the Fiera Milano fairgrounds in Italy.

The organization team for Plast – International Exhibition for the Plastics and Rubber Industries announced the upcoming edition of the fair, Tuesday-Friday, 5–8 September 2023 at the Fiera Milano fairgrounds in Rho-Pero, Italy.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation or rescheduling of almost all events all over the world, including the international triennial Plast exhibition, originally scheduled this year on 4–7 May. Given the continuation of the health emergency, and in keeping with the complex world tradeshow calendar for the sector – which is slowly being pieced back together – the exhibition has finally been rescheduled for 5–8 September 2023.

Exhibitors originally enlisted in Plast 2021 have already moved to ensure a place at <a href="https://www.plastonline.org/en/" target="_blank">Plast 2023</a>, confirming 30,000 m2 of exhibition space. Applications for new exhibitors will officially open in June 2022.

In keeping with previous editions, the content of Plast 2023 will not be limited to machinery but range from innovative materials to cutting-edge production processes, and from high-tech finished products to personalized services. As usual, a rich program of seminars, workshops, press conferences, and company presentations will ensure a wealth of opportunities for professionals in the sector to meet and exchange ideas with other operators.

The previous edition of Plast, which took place in 2018, recorded over 1500 exhibitors in a net space of 55,000 m2 and drew in more than 63,000 visitors, with a significant increase in visitors from other countries, reaffirming the international appeal of the specialized fair in Milan. In keeping with tradition, PLAST offered operators a broad and varied technology showcase, especially as regards the core of the exhibition, i. e., the machinery, auxiliaries, and molds for plastics and rubber processing. More than 3500 different equipment were exhibited in six exhibition halls. This sector represents a major slice of Italian manufacturing, with a production value estimated by the trade association Amaplast at EUR 3.74 billion in 2020, with exports accounting for some 70 % of production.

Greenplast – a New Event for the Plastics Industry

While awaiting Plast 2023, the organizer Promaplast srl is proposing a new event known as Greenplast, dedicated to environmental sustainability, energy efficiency, recover-reuse-recycle, and the circular economy.

<a href="https://www.greenplast.org/" target="_blank">Greenplast</a> will take place in Milan on 3–6 May 2022, representing a “bridge event” between the previous and future editions of Plast.

PROMAPLAST srl  

The previous edition of Plast, which took place in 2018, recorded over 1500 exhibitors in a net space of 55,000 m2 and drew in more than 63,000 visitors

Exhibitors originally enlisted in Plast 2021 have already moved to ensure a place at Plast 2023, confirming 30,000 m2 of exhibition space

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