battenfeld-cincinnati meeting customers’ individual requirements

At its stand in Hall Forum, FB48 at this year’s Interplastica, battenfeld-cincinnati (Bad Oeynhausen/Vienna) will again show-case innovative products for a wide variety of applications in the infrastructure (pipes), construction (profiles, sheet) and (food) packaging industries.

battenfeld-cincinnati has further demonstrated its technology leadership in 2011 by placing the new extruder series solEX (single screw) and twinEX (twin screw) which premiered at K2010 successfully in the field.

The company’s recent developments include a new PVC extrusion die series. The prototype spider 200-3 was tested by InstalPLast Lask Sp. Z.o.o. in Poland, who was convinced by the new design and improvements in pipe quality. The die is more compact, easier to handle and comes with a shorter setting-up time and start-up procedure. Wall thickness can significantly be improved, too, resulting in material savings.

Pipe producer Bänninger Kunststoff-Produkte GmbH, Reiskirchen, Germany, uses extruders and tooling supplied by battenfeld-cincinnati, geared optimally to the requirements of PP-R pipe production. A vital component of every extrusion line is its special helix WPO pipe die with a multi-layer spiral mandrel distributor. Like all dies from battenfeld-cincinnati, the helix WPO spiral mandrel distributor ensures high throughput, exact wall thickness distribution and a long service life thanks to low dwell times of the melt in the die.

battenfeld-cincinnati’s Packaging Division has been very successful in the multi-layer thermoforming sheet sector, particularly the growing segment of PP and PS barrier sheet for food packaging. In the past three years, a total of six lines were delivered for this application. In 2011, a 9-layer PP sheet line and a 7-layer PP/PS sheet line were sold, both for Asian manufacturers. These processors are especially impressed by the high outputs and the technology of the core components extruder, feedblock, die and polishing stack, which are geared to ensure consistent high product quality.

As energy costs constitute 3-5 per cent of total costs of an extrusion line, battenfeld-cincinnati provides energy efficiency solutions along the whole line. All battenfeld-cincinnati extruders equipped with energy-efficient AC motors and optimized screw geometries for every application.

battenfeld-cincinnati also offers an energy monitoring system. With this accurate overview of all line components, reliable comparisons can be made and practicable energy saving measures can be devised.

For the energetic optimization of the downstream components, battenfeld-cincinnati has continuously improved cooling and haul-off equipment and cutting devices to achieve more efficiency. One of the latest innovative developments is the Green Pipe downstream concept, which has significantly improved the energy efficiency in cooling pipes.

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