Victrex, an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK and PAEK* polymer solutions, has achieved a new milestone for its automotive offerings. Its gear design and manufacturing facility in Grantsburg, USA, has received the IATF 16949 certification**, proving that the necessary systems and capabilities in line with Tier1/OEM needs are in place. At the international K 2019 tradeshow in...

With increasing demands around health and safety, hygiene and productivity, the pressures being faced by food and beverage manufacturing equipment companies are mounting. Food contact legislation. Cleaning processes. Equipment performance. Precision. Efficiency. Improvements need to be made without compromise to reliability, costs or output.

SABIC is holding a series of technical summits around the world to mark 70 years of its LNP™product line of engineering thermoplastic compounds and copolymers. Following a series of events in Asia that began late last year, SABIC has initiated a schedule of events in cities across Europe and the USA.

Jacek Dobrzyński, owner of Plast Line, the Polish representative of motan-colortronic, is positively surprised. "On the first day we already had a lot of visitors at the stand. Normally, this day is more reserved," explains Dobrzyński. "During the K year, other fairs usually have a hard time of it.” In addition to the exhibited cross-section of the product portfolio, the new products for K2019...

The company's significant increase in turnover and existing structures typical of a medium-sized company – in this case, in particular respecting its material conveying system – caused the production division of Mitschke GmbH & Co. Kunststoffwerk KG, based in Eggenthal, Southern Germany, to gradually reach its limits. In order to meet this increase in turnover, Mitschke had been buying a new...