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ESD Protection in Harsh Environments: Graphene Nanotubes Expand Textiles’ Functionality

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ESD Protection in Harsh Environments: Graphene Nanotubes Expand Textiles’ Functionality

  • Polymer-coated chemical-resistant fabrics and fireproof special textiles with expanded electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety function have been developed.
  • Graphene nanotubes used as an electrostatic dissipative material make it possible to add ESD protection without compromising resistance to aggressive environments.
  • Efficient working loadings starting from 0.06% are sufficient for stable anti-static properties fully compliant with safety standards and position graphene nanotubes far ahead of other conductive materials.

Protective clothing, upholstery, and industrial fabrics that experience harsh conditions require advanced performance. Depending on the final application, specialty textiles can be augmented with flame retardancy, durability, chemical protection, and other properties. Additionally, ESD protection is obligatory in the chemical, rescue, mining, oil & gas, automotive manufacturing, and many other industries that are subject to safety regulations.

In applications where multifunctionality of textile is required, graphene nanotubes overcome the limitations of other conductive materials such as unstable anti-static properties; degradation of strength, or chemical or fire resistance; complicated manufacturing processes; dusty production; carbon contamination on the material’s surface; or limited color options. Recent developments show that graphene nanotubes provide ESD protection to textiles in full compliance with safety standards and without degrading the textile’s resistance to harsh environments, greatly enhancing the value of textiles.

One such example is textiles coated with fluoroelastomer (a polymer that is highly resistant to chemicals) augmented with graphene nanotubes from OCSiAl. Nanotubes provide the material with surface resistivity of 10^6–10^8 Ω/sq compliant with EN, ISO, and ATEX standards for personal protective equipment. This new technology opens the door for the fabric to be used in high-level protective suits, combining exceptional protection from chemicals with electrostatic discharge protection.

Another example is how graphene nanotube technology is being acknowledged as a replacement for metal yarns in fireproof and anti-static textiles, protecting against sparks, splashes of molten metal, high temperatures, and the risk of sudden electrostatic discharge. While metal yarns require a specific knitting process and storage conditions, incorporating nanotubes in a fabric does not require any changes in the manufacturing process as the water-based dispersion is introduced into the fabric at the fluoro-organic treatment stage. The fabric with OCSiAl’s graphene nanotubes has been proven to maintain the pre-set level of ESD protection (surface resistance of 10^7 Ω) after numerous washes.

Permanent and stable electrical conductivity, facilitated by graphene nanotubes, is not only a matter of safety but brings additional value in augmenting dust-repellent properties and touchscreen compatibility for comfort and time savings. At the same time, the ultralow nanotube concentrations result in maintained manufacturing processes and mechanical properties, and improve product aesthetics by making it possible to use a wide range of colors. Altogether, these benefits allow manufacturers to create next-generation special textiles with expanded functionality.

Learn more about graphene nanotubes in technical textiles at tuball.com.

 

 

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Client Relationships Should Be More Engaging. Here’s Why

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Client Relationships Should Be More Engaging. Here’s Why

By Mark Hinder, Responsible for Business Development Programmes, Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe

Customers don’t see channels; they see brands instead. It’s why brands should seek to build long term, worthwhile, customer relationships through meaningful engagement. That is one of the key insights shared in the fifth book in Ricoh’s Guides to Modern Marketing series.

In a world of highly targeted, personalised marketing communication, sustained customer relationships are created across multiple communication platforms. Customer engagement marketing (CEM) is vital. CEM happens when brands use personalised communication to guide their audience through a planned customer journey. From lead to sale – it’s all about a welcoming and nurturing a relationship.

Customer engagement can take a number of different forms including:

Creating Impactful Content

Content provides the substance to your communication, gives it purpose and ultimately delivers the tactics to meet the strategy. Brands use great content for acquisition and retention. To achieve that, identify who you want to be your company’s spokesperson and develop interesting content that resonates. Your content should address your audience directly and respond to their wants and needs. Creating and publishing appropriate content means that you’ll need to fully understand the customer lifecycle states, which range from prospect to new customer to loyal brand fan, and their pain points. Offering solutions will be valuable. Examples include 5 Top Tips, 4 How Tos, or 3 Did You Knows.

Being Creative

You don’t have to be a creative genius to produce great marketing creative. But you do need to know what’s relevant to your clients to build a foundation for compelling creativity that engages, inspires, and sells. Start with a creative audit that evaluates every aspect of your business then look at ways to stand out and establish common ground with your audience. Colour your creativity to influence people’s moods, productivity, and behaviour. Research from the CCI Colour Institute and the University of Winnipeg indicates that between 60-90% of our judgements on brands, products and our clothing are based on colour. Cool colours, like blue and green recede from the eye and are used to calm our reactions. Warm colours, such as red and orange, advance so they increase our heart rate and energy. Paying attention to graphics, fonts and words can also influence tone of voice and grab attention.

Ensuring Relevance

Consider how relevant you are to your clients’ wants and needs. Brands tend to be one of the following:

  • Customer focused with a customer obsession mindset. They find out who their customers really are, not just what they buy, and meet core wants and needs.
  • Pragmatic – they take bold steps, make smart business bets, and often move on from failure and experiments quickly. They have their products available when the customer needs them and can deliver consistent customer experiences.
  • Innovative and obsessed with what competitors are doing and what customers are yearning for. They know that without constant innovation, they won’t still be around tomorrow. They create emotional customer connections and earn long term trust.
  • Inspiring industry leaders that push the status quo and engage with their customers in new and creative ways. They also find new opportunities to meet their customers’ wants and needs.

Achieving relevance is not just about what you say – it’s where and when you say it. Communication must be meaningful, of the right length and in the right place.

Using Digital Marketing

Explore social platforms and the different communication opportunities they offer, use digital search advertising, and consider digital display advertising. Also transform your website into a dynamic marketing hub and consider how your website can help continue conversations.

Choosing Print

People react to print because it’s tactile. It’s a different way to consume communications and therefore works on our subconscious brain in subtle, effective ways. Direct mail is as responsive today as it’s always been and still outperforms Social Media. A multi-part DM piece demands to be explored in its many component parts. Print has many benefits, for example brand recall for print ads is higher than for digital display, and printed information requires less effort to process by our overloaded brains.

Wow them with Digital Print Enhancement

Build closer relationships with your clients by demonstrating that you are a partner rather than a supplier. One who is proactive and full of ideas that can support their business. The extraordinary effects and impact that can be conjured up by Digital Print Enhancement make it the kind of suggestion that can earn their trust and loyalty. Consider taking advantage of a Ricoh EDGE (business development consultancy service) workshop on how to exploit this opportunity, where margins are high but so will client satisfaction be too.

Letting your clients have their say 

Customer Generated Marketing (CGM) is changing the way companies seek out, convert, and retain customers in the digitally driven world. It’s a world where people place higher value on the opinions of strangers than they do on established brands. It’s a world where no-one is afraid to voice an opinion, or idea, so print companies simply have to listen. It’s also an effective way for you to get great ideas. It works best with loyal fans where client idea generation can be encouraged with incentivisation.

These are just some of the many impactful ways customer engagement can be developed. By exploring some, or all, of these Print Service Providers can start new conversations with their clients and strengthen existing relationships.

Engage is one of five other books in the series that also includes Audience, Modern Marketing, Brand, Vision, and Optimise. They have been developed to provide a practical, easy and enjoyable way to shape business growth and profitability.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh-europe.com

 

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Futureproof Your Workflow: Job Onboarding

Kanchana Hettiarachchi
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Futureproof Your Workflow: Job Onboarding

By Erwin Busselot, Director, Business Innovation & Solutions, Ricoh Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe

Public transport systems, like the underground, metro and trams, are remarkable for the ability to move large numbers of people throughout a city efficiently.

For instance, the subway system in Tokyo moves nearly seven million people into and around the city during business days.

It works for several reasons. There are established routes, connection points, and schedules. There are timetables and route maps that clearly show how to use the system. Even tourists can quickly grasp where to go and how to get there.

These same lessons can and should be applied to job onboarding in your print production workflow.

How do clients submit order requests along with their supporting artwork and data files? There is no single path, but there should be clear instructions and directions on how to make those submissions.

Clients may use a branded, online storefront to order products, but many still come through your sales channels, most likely using email. The key is to get the minimum amount of information to accurately quote and produce the job using the minimum effort required by the client and your staff. The side benefit is increased client and employee satisfaction.

The best place to start is by evaluating your current set of print applications and documenting the specifications required for each.

With criteria in hand, build processes and solutions to accurately and repeatedly capture the information needed for quoting and production.

Two commonly overlooked solutions for capturing and standardising client requests are your e-commerce (web to print) solution or the online customer portal of your Print MIS. These systems act like virtual sales machines, allowing your clients to submit their orders 24 hours a day. And also they are checklists for your account managers and sales staff to submit orders on the client’s behalf.

Your clients need an easy way to submit artwork artwork and files. And then your workflow and systems need to be efficient and automated. The client’s artwork and data files also need documented methods for submission. Using email, FTP, or online file transfers is inefficient since your staff must locate, download, and transfer the files into your print production workflow. A better option is to use software solutions that are secure and can insert the client’s files into the workflow for further processing and automation. Web to print solutions are designed for this type of job onboarding. Other workflow management solutions, like RICOH ProcessDirector™, can also monitor network locations to pick up files for routing and processing.

Does your workflow look like an underground or metro map? With multiple job entry points with the ability to automatically route work to the final destination via multiple processing stops, some common and some unique, based on the requirements of the application. So that your jobs always reach the right destination.

Streamlining and automating job onboarding decreases the costs associated with receiving client orders and the likelihood of introducing costly errors (and dissatisfied clients above all). It also increases the amount of time your account managers and sales staff have to focus on serving your clients – a key to building a workflow that is future proof.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh-europe.com

 

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Are You Ready for the Industry Challenges 2023 Could Bring?

Kanchana Hettiarachchi
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Are You Ready for the Industry Challenges 2023 Could Bring?

By Sander Sondaal, Director Commercial Print Sales, Ricoh Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe

Printing United Alliance’s State of the Industry report cemented what many of us have known for a long time. The survey of its American printer membership found we are edging ever closer to a recession as the economy continues to slow appreciably over the next 12 months. Its view of the market is something that will resonate strongly with European Print Service Providers (PSPs) too.

The survey found the top seven challenges identified by commercial printers, graphic and sign producers, packaging printers and converters and apparel decorators were:

  • Rising substrate costs
  • Material shortages
  • Rising labour costs
  • Rising transportation costs
  • Labour shortages
  • Maintaining profitability
  • Rising energy costs

Four fifths of respondents reported increased sales on a year ago although only half experienced a rise in pre-tax profitability. And while two thirds signalled interest in investing in capital equipment – hardware and software in 2023 – 28.7% were unsure of their investment plans with uncertainty about the economy cited as the main influencing factor.

The recently released 8th drupa Global Trends Report from Messe Düsseldorf research partners Printfuture (UK), and Wissler & Partner (Switzerland), found that Print Service Providers (PSPs) are quite resilient in the face of many crises.

The headline figures were optimistic. Globally, in 2022, 34% of the printer panel stated their company’s current economic condition to be “good” and 16% described it as “poor,” yielding a net positive balance of +18%. The expectations for 2023 are even better, with a net balance of 27% of participants expecting good business. However, European printers anticipate their economic condition will worsen in 2023 due to rising paper and energy prices and a general stalling of the economy.

The report also found that, since 2019, capital expenditure had fallen steadily reaching a low in 2022. But, as a result, a rebound in investments is expected in 2023 and could potentially surpass the capital expenditure in all previous years as operations catch up.

According toWalter Fricke’s How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterwards, “Recessions are a high pressure exercise in change management, and to navigate one successfully, a company needs to be flexible and ready to adjust. It’s tempting to think of a recession as a time to batten down the hatches and play it safe. However, downturns …encourage the adoption of new technologies.”

Ranjay Gulati, Nitin Nohria, and Franz Wohlgezogen, take this approach a step further when they say instead of retreating into survival mode and hoping for the best, businesses can prepare to come “roaring out of recession.”

Both point to agile PSPs as those most likely to identify opportunities and ride out a downturn and lay firm foundations for continued success once the downturn ends.

But how do you identify the right opportunity? This is something Ricoh’s EDGE business development consultancy service can help operations with. By working through its lean canvas (see example below) PSPs can evaluate and identify relevant opportunities.

Problem/Pain Point   Why this product/service will be important to clients Solution   How are you going to solve the problem/relieve the pain? Customer Segment     Your target market
Channels   How will you reach the target market? Unique Value Proposition   Why your target market will buy from you rather than the competition? Revenue Streams   Revenues the product/service is expected to generate
Cost Structure   Costs of bringing the product/service to market Key Metrics   How will you measure performance/if expectations are being met Your Unfair Advantage   Specific skills/attributes that will differentiate you

 

They could also consider questions such as:

  • Why now?
  • Precisely for whom will we create the value/solve the problem?
  • How big is the opportunity?
  • What alternatives are out there?
  • Why are we best suited to pursue this? What’s our differentiator?
  • What factors – internal and external — are critical to success?

The aim is to avoid wasting time and money on poor opportunities while gaining an understanding of what will be required to succeed with good opportunities.

Interested in seeing what opportunities there are for your business to discover, introduce and build successfully on? Speak to our team to learn more about how Ricoh EDGE can help.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh-europe.com

 

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How Carbon Neutrality in the Supply Chain Benefits Brands

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How Carbon Neutrality in the Supply Chain Benefits Brands

By Dieter Niederstadt, Technical Marketing Manager, Asahi Photoproducts

There is significant discussion across many different industries about achieving Net-Zero carbon emissions by 2050, and a reduction of emissions by 50% by 2030. These are steep goals to achieve, and no one company can do this alone. For the last century, it has been the mission of Asahi Kasei, the parent company of Asahi Photoproducts, to contribute to life and living for people around the world. Working to promote the achievement of these goals, both internally and across the entire packaging supply chain, is a keystone of those efforts.

At Asahi Photoproducts, we are proud of our achievement of Carbon Neutral status for our AWPTM-DEW CleanPrint water washable flexographic plates. But there is still much work to do pursuant to an ongoing Carbon Management Plan that will deliver reductions in carbon emissions for these plates over time, a requirement for maintaining Carbon Neutral status, and we are taking this very seriously.

As a brand owner, you might be wondering why you should care about this. That’s understandable. A key reason is that this Carbon Neutral status for our AWPTM-DEW plates means that flexographic printers producing your packaging using these plates have a reduced carbon footprint as well, and that rolls up to your efforts, allowing your company to add this reduction in footprint to your calculations and the goals you are committed to achieving, internally and across the entire supply chain.

In addition to their Carbon Neutral footprint, these plates also benefit the pressroom, with higher quality flexographic printing along with faster time to market, less waste, elimination of harmful VOC based solvents, and a reduction in use of other resources, including energy. That means that the important process of delivering packaging for your products that is more sustainable is actually within your reach, today.

To assist you in better understanding how more sustainable packaging fits into the overall picture, we have compiled an informative booklet that explains in detail what we have accomplished, how we got there, our ongoing plans, and what is meant by Carbon Neutrality. In the booklet, we also address the contributions that automation in the flexographic printing process add to its overall sustainability, and we include customer stories, such as how their companies have benefited from implementing CrystalCleanConnect with AWPTM-DEW plates, the world’s first truly automated platemaking solution, developed in collaboration with ESKO and Kongsberg, that requires one step (instead of 12) to move from raw plate material to press-ready plates, a significant advance, and for you, a huge step in reduced time to market for critical packaging.

We hope that you find this booklet a valuable and educational tool as you explore how the future of your business can benefit from the resources we have invested in the advancement of the flexographic industry.

Be sure to download your copy of this booklet here, and share it widely throughout your organization. We believe it will be inspirational as well as educational, as we all work together to combat the increasingly dangerous climate crisis.

More information is available at www.asahi-photoproducts.com

 

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XSYS Nyloprint Products Subject to Price Increase in 2023

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XSYS Nyloprint Products Subject to Price Increase in 2023

Following the continued sharp rise in the cost of raw materials and surcharges levied by suppliers, XSYS is forced to increase the prices for its nyloprint letterpress plates.The company has sent a formal notice to customers informing them that effective on 1 January 2023, an increase of between 8% and 16% will be applied on the base prices of nyloprint products..

While XSYS has been able to offset a proportion of the recent and ongoing increases in costs against various efficiency measures and optimization of processes, it has now become necessary to share some of the financial burden. This decision will support the ongoing growth of the market and secure the reliable supply of nyloprint letterpress printing plates.

“XSYS is committed to delivering best-in-class products to all customers despite the unprecedented cost pressures and the challenging supply chain situation,” said Global Commercial VP at XSYS, Friedrich von Rechteren. “However, when securing contract terms for 2023, we have again seen significant base price increases from our suppliers, which are especially impacting the XSYS nyloprint portfolio. Raw materials used in the production of this particular range have a higher proportion of specially sourced components, and with only very limited alternative suppliers, we’ve had no other choice than to accept these costs, along with extended and increased surcharges.”

In addition to the above-mentioned price increases, it has proven to be a continuous challenge to secure the transportation of these special materials with delays negatively affecting production schedules and lead times. Furthermore, the cost of energy across the board remains at a consistently inflated level impacting not only transport, but also storage and other warehousing activities.

Mr. von Rechteren concluded, “This is an incredibly difficult time for the industry, as suppliers and converters alike struggle to source materials and deliver their products, which of course affects the entire value chain. Unfortunately, we’ve had to take this course of action, but it really is a last resort and I want to reassure our customers that we will do our utmost to lessen the impact through close cooperation and support.”

www.xsysglobal.com

 

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United Caps Recognised With Prestigious BLCC Golden Bridge Award

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United Caps Recognised With Prestigious BLCC Golden Bridge Award

Award presented to the most successful Belgian and Luxembourg companies exporting to or trading in the UK

United Caps, an international manufacturer of caps and closures, today reported that it has been recognised with the prestigious Golden Bridge Award for its establishment of a successful manufacturing plant in Dinnington, Sheffield, UK. The factory was constructed of 10 acres of land, it accommodates 15 production lines and employs 34 talented staff members.

“We are pleased to be recognised with this prestigious award for our success with the Dinnington plant at the 22nd edition of this award presentation,” said CEO Benoit Henckes. “Production began in the third quarter of 2020 and is expected to generate sales in excess of £10 million in 2022, with growth expected to more than double in 2023. The plant is expected to reach profitability in just three short years and is producing 2 billion closures with plenty of runway for future growth. The plant is ultra-modern, highly energy efficient and features an innovative layout that is completely in line with our efficiency and sustainability goals.”

In its 22nd year, the award ceremony was hosted by the Ambassador of Belgium HE Mr. Bruno van der Pluijm at his residence in London. The event is in support of the Royal Belgian Benevolent Society charity which helps UK-based Belgians in need and Belgian students studying in the UK.

The United Caps Advantage
In applying for this award, United Caps cited the transformation of its activities from importing caps and closures to producing them in the UK, as part of the company’s Close To You promise. Not only does this important industrial investment in the UK deliver welcome employment to the Sheffield region, but it also provides sustainable growth through the manufacturing of tethered closures and of lower weight yet highly functional closures. The building and its production operations feature high-energy efficiency, also in line with the company’s sustainability heritage.

Henckes was accompanied by a United Caps delegation and thanked his team for their efforts during his acceptance speech. “We are honoured to join the hall of fame which includes a number of world-class companies that have been awarded the Golden Bridge Award over the past 21 years,” Henckes added. “The combination of food and non-food caps and closures, as well as our ability to produce bespoke closures, which represents about 50% of our business, has placed us in an optimum position to continue growing and expanding in the Dinnington location. This includes the possibility of expanding from our current 6,000 square metre facility to a larger plant of up to 20,000 square metres over time, bringing much-needed employment to this underserved region. We are grateful to the BLCC Jury for recognising the efforts our company has placed on expanding and growing the Dinnington plant, and thus providing more efficient and localised service to the UK market.”

www.unitedcaps.com

 

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France: Totalenergies Increases Its Production of Highperformance Recycled Polymers for Automotive

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France: Totalenergies Increases Its Production of Highperformance Recycled Polymers for Automotive

TotalEnergies announces the construction of a new production line of high-performance recycled polypropylene for automotive in its polymer plant in Carling, France.

Since 2016, the Carling – Saint-Avold petrochemical platform is producing value-added compounds primarily intended for the automotive industry. The startup of a new line dedicated to hybrid compounds will consolidate the platform’s position of a leading polymers site in Europe.

With commissioning scheduled for 2024, the flexible line will produce 15,000 tons per year of polypropylene compounds containing up to 100% recycled plastic materials. Part of TotalEnergies’ recently launched RE:clic portfolio, and more precisely the RE:use polymers range obtained through a mechanical recycling process, these low-carbon materials meet the highest quality standards and technical requirements for automotive.

Recycling both post-consumer wastes and end-of-life automotive parts, the line will contribute to address the challenge of the circular economy in Europe.

“After the doubling of capacity at Synova, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies and the French leader in the production of recycled polypropylene, this investment further strengthens the Company’s leading position in high value-added recycled polymers. This new line will allow us to meet the growing demand from the automotive market for more efficient and sustainable polymers, in line with our ambition of producing 30% circular polymers by 2030,” said Nathalie Brunelle, Senior Vice President, Polymers at TotalEnergies.

rose-marie.caltabellotta@totalenergies.com

 

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Coperion Presents the Enhanced Digital Platform C-Beyond at K 2022

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Coperion Presents the Enhanced Digital Platform C-Beyond at K 2022

The New Benchmark for Digital Productivity in Plastics

Coperion will present C-Beyond, the next level of its digital platform for machine and plant management. C-Beyond bundles all its digital products and service applications together, with the focus on creating secure digital solutions for the polymer industry and other processing industries that add real value. Amongst the numerous additions and upgrades to the platform, the OEE dashboard (OEE = Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is presented at the show for the first time.

Optimizing Productivity with OEE Dashboard
C-Beyond uses data from Coperion’s extruders, compounding machines, and other systems to provide a comprehensive digital representation of the production currently in progress on a user-friendly interface. On the scalable OEE dashboard, production managers can receive an overview of the ongoing production performance of individual machines or entire plants at any time. This allows, for example, the fast and precise evaluation of plant productivity using OEE analysis.

Deviations in output and quality can easily be detected on the platform and their causes are diagnosed more quickly without complex laboratory tests. C-Beyond provides real-time production process data, allowing managers to make even more informed business decisions. The live dashboards can be customized by the user to best fit their needs.

Also, maintenance concepts based on data analytics, like predictive or condition-based maintenance, can be implemented easily with C-Beyond. This allows Coperion to proactively support their customers in maintenance work and preparation which will reduce effort on the customer side. With the AI-supported data analytics and downtime tracker, unexpected downtime or failures can be prevented, optimizing uptime.

 

 

The new Service Box CSB 4.0 allows for secure integration of all systems in the product line.

Smart Hardware Concept: Coperion Control Systems and Service Box CSB 4.0
Production data is recorded directly in the CSpro and EpcNT control systems on the extruders or via the Service Box CSB 4.0, which can be retrofitted quickly and easily to existing Coperion machines. The CSB 4.0 Service Box is unique in that it connects all the product line systems, not only the actual extruder, to the digital platform. This gives users a complete process overview. C-Beyond has also been developed with cyber security in mind. A special two-tier hardware concept – with one gateway for a VPN connection to the internet and another for internal data acquisition within the machines – protects the transmission of sensitive production data to the C-Beyond online platform against unauthorized access.

The latest version of the CSpro extruder control system offers many smart functions for intelligent diagnosis and monitoring of the extrusion process. The control unit opens up extensive possibilities for remote maintenance by Coperion service engineers.

Application-oriented and secure communication standard
Coperion’s extruders comply with the OPC 40084 standard to exchange data with higher-ranking production control systems, like MES systems. Communications are based on the proven OPC UA (Open Platform Communication Unified Architecture) manufacturer-independent standard for data exchange from automation systems while considering the requirements of the plastics industry. The security of the data at all process stages has been certified by DEKRA according to ISO 27001:2013, which means that production and company data are well protected.

“With C-Beyond, we offer customers a comprehensive and mature digital platform that is consistently tailored to the requirements of the extrusion and compounding sector. We are convinced that C-Beyond will bring significant value to our customers and take the relationship with them to the next level.,” explains Markus Schmudde, Head of Research and Development, Compounding & Extrusion, at Coperion. (www.coperion.com)

 

 

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Teknor Apex Brings a Portfolio of Products for Emerging Applications to Wire India

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Teknor Apex Brings a Portfolio of Products for Emerging Applications to Wire India

New Fire Guard PVC Compounds from Teknor Apex are Cost-Effective, Performance Alternatives to Fluoropolymers. Formulated for a variety of cable types from copper data cable jackets to fiber optic cables to specialty and security cables, these compounds provide low smoke generation and low flame propagation performance and have enabled cables to meet and exceed all applicable performance testing requirements of UL Subjects 13, 1424 and 444 including those of NFPA 262 for Flame Travel and Smoke. They’re also the preferred choice of electricians as cables made with these lower-flexural modulus compounds resist kinks and knuckling making them easier to install, especially in tight plenum spaces.

Flexalloy PVC Elastomers from Teknor Apex are Abrasion-, Chemical- and Oil Resistant Thermoplastic Compounds with Excellent Low Temperature Flexibility. With a brittle point as low as <-60 °C and a high temperature rating of 105 °C, Flexalloy elastomers are UL-Recognized components for outdoor and wet location applications. These compounds, which have excellent low temperature flexibility, are resistant to sunlight, abrasion, oils and chemicals and have a high degree of flame retardance making them ideally suited for wire and cable applications that are highly subjected to the elements such as those in electric vehicle charging cables, industrial automation and power cables.

Halguard LS HFFR Wire and Cable Compounds from Teknor Apex Offer an Excellent Balance of Properties for Wire & Cable Applications. These highly flame-retardant compounds enable compliance with a broad range of international flame tests and are optimized for mechanical performance, flexibility, and ease of extrusion on standard PVC equipment. They are particularly well suited for applications in appliance wire, electronic cables, fiber optic cables and transit cables.

Apex Flexible PVC Compounds, Specifically Designed for Extrusion and Injection Molding, Address a Wide Range of Application Requirements. First developed for building wire, these compounds have been used in the wire & cable industry for over six decades. UL-Recognized and available in a variety of hardnesses and properties, these workhorse compounds are used in a wide variety of wire and cable compounds.

At Wire India 2022, Teknor Apex Company will feature a full range of all of these compound solutions. To learn more visit: www.teknorapex.com.

 

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