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Europe 2022 Special Advertising Section
Steel belt units
for ceramic
tapes
C
EKATO - Your Partner to bring
Advanced Plastics Recycling to
Commercial
eramic tapes play a key role in certain
advanced ceramics and as separators
in fuel cells and components in solar cells.
Governmental incentives to develop green
technologies are moving society from fossil
fuels to hydrogen energy. Additionally,
the growing demand for MLCC (Multi-Layer
Chip Capacitors) for 5G communication, IOT
(Internet of things) and electrification in the
automotive industry highlight the importance
of ceramics more than ever.
IPCO designs and manufactures
complete lines for the production
of Ceramic Tapes
Tape casting units are mainly based on
steel belt technology. The production line
begins with a slot die or a casting box that
applies an accurate controlled layer of a
slurry directly onto a polished steel belt or
a carrier foil. From there it passes through
different dryer zones, which are configured
based on the slurry characteristics. The
dryer utilizes a combination of conventional
tangential flow, impingement or IPCO's patented
Venturi drying technology to quickly
evaporate the aqueous or organic solvent.
The result is a drying efficiency that leaves
the final material almost completely free of
tension both laterally and longitudinally.
The high precision drying concept improves
the overall casting process, enabling
the production of ceramic tapes to exceptionally
narrow tolerances without any risk
of skin formation. It also increases yield by
eliminating costly faults and imperfections
in the final material.
IPCO Venturi dryer
IPCO's on-going investments in R&D,
coupled with our proven experience and
expertise in film processing technologies
has resulted in the successful development
of an innovative Venturi drying zone.
When integrated properly, the Venturi drying
technology significantly improves the
efficiency of the drying process (higher
throughput per m2) and decreases energy
consumption.
www.ipco.co
Plastic pollution - nowadays having a
tremendous public awareness - has
raised the demand for new and efficient
recycling processes
C
hemical plastic recycling, also called
advanced recycling, refers to several
different technologies that convert used
plastics into their original building blocks,
feedstocks for new plastics or other valuable
products. The aim is always to split the
polymer chains into shorter hydrocarbons,
which is achieved with the help of either
heat, catalysts, solvents, water or UV-light.
EKATO's process plants section
is specialized to help grow these
new processes to commercial
Besides customized assistance to solve
problems and optimize processing solutions
EKATO is in the position to perform laboratory
and pilot plant investigations. A main
challenge in the development of any chemical
plastics recycling process is the scaleup.
Here EKATO's long-term experience in
process industry
- in
most different
processes
all around
the agitated
reactor - is
the basis for a
successful development
together with the corresponding
partner who owns the process.
EKATO's process plants department is in
the position to realize plastics recycling projects
with extreme short time-to-market. As
process design, engineering, complete pilot
plants or even commercial modular skidmounted
units can be provided out of one
hand, EKATO is the one stop shop solution
for partners who intend to rapidly bring their
environmental-friendly plastics recycling process
to commercial scale. www.ekato.com
EKATO Pilot facilities allow
safe and robust scaleup
to production size
Electric actuators for Industrial
Ethernet
AUMA actuators support
Profinet, EtherNet/IP and
Modbus TCP
P
rofinet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP -
Industrial Ethernet protocols are increasingly
gaining ground for field device
integration in the chemical process industries.
Offering outstanding connectivity, combined
with simple and robust transmission
technologies, these protocols are key enablers
for enhanced data integration, intelligent
analytics and IIoT applications.
AUMA electric actuators support these
standards and can be easily integrated in
Profinet, EtherNet/IP and Modbus TCP environments,
enabling plant managers to fully benefit
from the enormous potential to optimize processes
and maximize plant availability.
With bandwidths up to 100 Mbit/s,
AUMA actuators provide reliable and rapid
exchange of both cyclic process data and
acyclic diagnostic data from the actuators.
The wide range of diagnostic data that is
automatically logged by the actuators is immediately
available at network level and can
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AUMA electric actuators support the
Industrial Ethernet standards Profinet,
EtherNet/IP and Modbus TCP, making
the multiple benefits of Industrial
Ethernet utilisable at field level.
be further used for analysis, process visualisation,
or simulation, facilitating conditionbased
predictive maintenance and efficient
asset management.
Providing utmost flexibility, the actuators
can be integrated into line, star and loop
topologies, using different transmission
media such as copper cables, optical fibres
and wireless technologies. AUMA provides
standardised device descriptions as GSDML
or EDS files and Field Device Integration
Packages, thus facilitating device integration.
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AUGUST 2022
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