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S
ome 3,100 exhibitors from
almost 60 nations will be
showing their products
and services on more than
170,000 m2 of net exhibition space
during K 2016 (Düsseldorf, Germany;
October 19-26) - the international
trade fair for plastics and
rubber. " Nowhere in the world can
one experience the full breadth of
raw materials, processing and application
equipment as completely
as at K in Düsseldorf, " says Werner
Dornscheidt, president and CEO of
Messe Düsseldorf, the show's organizer
(www.k-online.com).
As always, K 2016 will occupy all the
exhibition space at Messe Düsseldorf,
with products and services filling all of
the venue's 19 halls. All of the industry's
core business areas are present,
including machines and equipment,
raw materials and auxiliaries, semifinished
products, technical parts and
reinforced plastics, and services.
A small sample of products and
services on display during K 2016 is
presented below.
A new approach to
plant planning
Nowadays, billion-euro investment
decisions in the plastics production
and processing industry are made in
a very short time. According to this
company's managing director, Rochus
Hofmann, the time between
an investment decision and commissioning
is less than half of what
it was a few years ago. These challenges
can only be met with better
and faster planning. At K 2016, this
company is demonstrating its new
approach to planning and designing
plants for the plastics industry. While
a traditional machine construction
company focuses on the machine,
a plant engineering company's planning
will keep the total plant in mind,
using various planning tools. One of
them is the Zeppelin Value Engineering
concept, which enables extensive
discussions and the optimization of
the plant concept in digital form at a
very early stage. This leads to better
concept solutions such as optimized
piping, improved room layout or perfect
positioning of all components,
and shorter distances. This company's
planning software supports this
process (photo). In the future, focus
will be set on innovatively developing
the planning process, for example by
further improving digitalization - not
only when planning, but also with the
use of components that can communicate
in a digital network. Therefore,
this company focuses its component
development on a new product segment
named " smart components "
and will also present new ideas regarding
Industry 4.0. Hall 9, Booth
B41 - Zeppelin Systems GmbH,
Friedrichshafen, Germany
www.zeppelin-systems.com
High-tech microgranules for
brilliant colors
This company's Rhein Chemie Additives
business unit is showcasing
its organic Macrolex Gran colorants
(photo, p. I2) for the brilliant coloring
of amorphous and semicrystalline
plastics. Thanks to their microgranule
form, the colorants compare
extremely favorably with powders
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Hall 7a, B26 & C25
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