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Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Continue to Improve Productivity and Quality
...nts, but are also found in fundamentally new systems such as flat desk processes and horizontal insertion processes. For production of PET bottles cycle times were shortened and coating processes and heating systems were further developed. The new millennium begins with an anniversary for the blow moulding technique. In May 1950 and thus 50 years ago German patent No. 971,333 was given to the brothers Norbert and Reinold Hagen for a procedure and device for production of bottles from thermopla...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: Light and Versatile
Light and Versatile Just in time for the start of the new millennium, plastics packaging has become the leading packaging material, pushing paper/paper board/cardboard to second place. Correspondingly, the packaging segment is the main consumer of plastics and the main customer of the plastics producing industry. If machinery and equipment used for producing plastics packaging materials were to be included in this balance sheet, the significance of this particular area of application for our e...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Flame Retardants
...st income will be obtained from bromine and phosphorus-containing flame retardants, as well as from magnesium hydroxide. Acquisitions and Cooperations Albemarle Corporation, Baton Rouge/ USA, has been particularly active in the new millennium. At the start of 2000, the company purchased Ferro Corporation’s Pyro-Chek (brominated polystyrene) business (with production in Hammond near Chicago/USA), together with its facility in Port-de-Bouc/France. At almost the same time, a cooperation agreemen...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Injection Moulding Machine Control Technology
...ation points, pressures and velocities was used as a sales argument, with the result that ever more complicated machines were being developed in the name of science, with little attention to ease of operation. Injection Moulding Machines in the New Millennium In the new millennium, precise control of the injection moulding process will continue to be at the forefront. This applies particularly to the control of small and extremely small shot weights, since progressive miniaturisation in mechan...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Perfect optical symbiosis
... PP+EPDM) were processed for them. According to estimates the quantity used might increase to about 550 000 t per year by 2010. However, growth will be much stronger for other exterior parts made of plastic. At the end of the first decade of the new millennium the portion of plastics is expected to exceed that for metal parts for exterior applications for the first time. Paint Systems in Use Which paint systems are presently most often used and what will the future bring? Also for plastic pain...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Perspectives at the Start of a New Millennium
Perspectives at the Start of a New Millennium Delphi '98 and Plastics Kerstin Cuhls, Karlsruhe/Germany, and Anton Weber, Frankenthal/Germany A study of the future of plastics and their markets as viewed from applied-technology and social-science aspects. The Delphi '98 study of the global development of science and technology serves as a starting point for identifying promising areas. Although the name alludes to the Oracle of the Ancient Greeks, the methods involved have definit...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Plastics al dente
...talian companies place great hopes in PLAST 2000. They expect demand to rise after the fair and look forward to a good 2000. Here is a look beyond the Alps at what is new in the Italian plastics industry. PLAST 2000 ushers in the new "Plastics Millennium", according to the advertising by the fair's organisers. From May 8 to 13, the industry is meeting for the first major show in Europe. Over 1300 exhibitors from 35 countries are expected to attend Europe's second largest trade ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene
...ll (Himont-Shell JV). DSM took over Vestolen GmbH early 1998 and Dow started mid 1998 its first European PP production unit, located in Schkopau. A few months later, Borealis and PCD joint forces. A new wave of restructuring started early in the new millennium. Basell was formed in October 2000 by combining Targor (PP), Montell (PP) and Elenac (PE). Basell is the leading global PP producer with 2.6 million tonnes capacity in Europe and nearly 6 million tonnes worldwide. Early this year the disso...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Secured Growth: Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)
...s a more than 80% share. The trend that was evident at the end of the 90s already for investment to be moved away from new buildings and channelled into the modernisation and renovation of residential accommodation has gained momentum in the new millennium. Investment in new buildings has been cut back dramatically, while more has been invested in modernisation and renovation work (Fig. 3). Since EPS insulation materials are used both in new buildings and for upgrading the thermal insulation of ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Stations in the Life of an Injection Moulding Firm
Stations in the Life of an Injection Moulding Firm The IBS Brocke Company in the New Millennium Walter Beck, Morsbach/Germany The roots of IBS Brocke GmbH & Co. KG, Morsbach, go back to the very beginnings of the plastics industry. The firm was founded purely as a mould-making concern in 1911. Today more than 800 employees produce thermoplastics precision components at four locations in Germany. Turnover amounts to about 240 million DM. Expertise is concentrated in two company-owned mould-...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, The Future Role of the Plastics Producers
...liers of standard products, innovators, problem-solving partners and service providers. Networks and virtual companies are opening up new opportunities for cooperation. A few days ago, the calendar of the Western world signalled the start of a new millennium. No one is capable of estimating how things are going to develop over such an extensive time span as this. It is not even possible to predict the happenings and developments of the next century - and even the course of the next decade rema...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, The Market for Standard Plastics
...trongly increased world-wide demand that included speculative elements. The profound industrial restructuring observable for years reached a new dimension with the planned BASF/Shell co-operation (Basell) in polyolefins. At the beginning of the new millennium plastics producers, processors and users are faced with a further challenge the effects of which can only be guessed at today. It is summarised in the key word e-commerce. Information technology with world-wide electronic networking through...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Trends in Plastic Furniture: Designing with Plastic
...ould continue to develop at the same rate in the future and that there would be no limits. Based on this belief in progress, Utopian designs were created for living in a new world and even moving to other planets. They were developed with the next millennium in mind, and had a significant influence on the design of home furniture at that time [1]. Italy Sets the Trends “At the Milan Furniture Fair, the designers have rediscovered plastics”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently. At...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, User Report: Quality Assurance as a Continuous Challenge
...nstallation of the system and the staff training were conducted by the Söhner Group’s German parent company. The switchover of the ERP/PPC system to the Fepa product from Planat GmbH, which was performed at the turn of the millennium, showed once again that they had made the right choice of partner. It thus proved possible to integrate the basic data, such as the master parts records, supply records and customer records within a very short time, as well as to incorporate the entry of incoming go...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, What Customer Focus Really Means
...se. The plastics industry in Germany makes an enormous contribution to the economy; its DM 114 billion is approximately 6.4 % of the total industrial production of DM 1,783 billion (1998) in Germany. "Plastics will be the material of the third millennium", prophesied the chairman of the Association of the Plastics Processing Industry (VKE) Ernst Schadow recently. "The plastics processing industry is one of the most innovative branches of the processing branch", said the preside...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-05-23, Market Trends: The Modern Masterbatch Supplier of Tomorrow
...sk of also fulfilling the role of material qualifier for its customer. According to estimates by market mavens, the following structures have crystallised on the side of the colorant and additive concentrate suppliers since the start of the new millennium: The internationalists: This category includes first and foremost suppliers such as Cabot Plastics International, Ampacet or even the A. Schulman Group that offer primarily standard products (black and white batches, additives and colorants) ...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-28, A Personal Opinion: Has Injection Moulding been Fully Exhausted?
...ages in particular application fields, also have to put up with affordable alternatives. But what about advances in machine technology? As a passionate engineer, I would like to use this opportunity to take up the cudgels for our more than six-millennium-old profession, to which the VDI and Carl Hanser Verlag have dedicated a book on the occasion of the VDI’s 150th anniversary. Indeed, the word “engineer” is thought to derive from the Latin “ingenium”, meaning “mind” or “keen intellect”, and has...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Thermosets
The market for thermoset raw materials after some fierce movements between the mid-1990s and the beginning of the new millennium has now been significantly consolidated. Only comparatively few global suppliers are still operating, these being essentially DSM, Reichhold and Ashland for unsaturated polyester resins, Dow, Huntsman and Hexion in the epoxy resin business while the latter company and Sumitomo Bakelite are prominently competing in the field of thermoset molding compounds. Close collab...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-11-19, Flow Control with Valves
...he automotive industry for paintable surfaces. Specifically, mass-produced handles and protective strips were developed that have walls thicker than 10 mm. Parts with walls measuring 2.5 mm to 1 mm thick, too, were made for housings. The turn of the millennium saw the advent of flat components, for example, lids for transport systems. Although a great many machine makers and raw materials manufacturers, universities, etc. researched this method, it has still not become as widespread as other spe...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-06-17, An Economic Miracle in Brush-Land
...enable Bürstenmann to make the change from the planned economy of the GDR to the market economy of reunified Germany. The visitor to the factory did not notice that the brush industry was in difficulties in Germany at the turn of the millennium because most of the orders had migrated to China. The crucial role in bringing back the business to Germany was performed by an idea for a fully automated manufacturing system by the machine manufacturer Zahoransky, the guest of Margitta Siegel hears. She...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-08-17, PET Recycling in Europe
...has recognized that and has passed stricter laws which came into force last year. Therefore it may be assumed that the collection rate will increase. The collection of used plastic packaging in the Czech Republic only began at the start of the millennium and has achieved good return rates from both the absolute and relative points of view. There are not only differences in the quantity of the waste collected but also in the quality. Whereas the "guarantors" have defined the specifications in Ger...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-12-21, Flame Retardant with Molecular Anchor
...ood properties of PS foam. For this purpose, Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan/USA has developed the Bluedge Polymeric Flame Retardant Technology.Balancing Act between Regulations, Environment, and Fire ProtectionSince the start of the new millennium, the PS foam industry has been searching for a sustainable alternative for the flame retardant HBCD, which has been in use for decades. The new material was to have a significantly better health and non-toxic environmental profile, combined ...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-05-15, Cradle of Thermoplastics
...tion with users, to develop new materials and components as well as economic processes for their production. Both pilot runs and small-lot production can be carried out directly in the pilot plant facility. Digital Records since the Turn of the Millennium2011 saw the start of a general modernization of the pilot plant facility with the investment project "Technology Update" – many machines had become rather old, even if they no longer dated right back to the time of the facility’s foundation.So...