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26 PLASTICS NEWS, April 4, 2012 Enercon debuts Dyne-A-Grip plasma treater people said etches and functhere was nothtionalizes surThe automated ing like it in the faces and is desystem allows an industry,” he ORLANDO, FLA. — Enercon Indus- signed for use in said, noting that environtries Corp. (Booth 4147) unveiled lab operator to treat demand is at NPE a universal hand-held at- ments, plasma segments of a web strong. feasibility studmospheric plasma treater. Enercon uses from an operator “Dyne-A-Grip IT is a hand-held ies and light proa blown-ion disthat allows users to do lab-scale, duction. It genstation, rather than charge to bomatmospheric, plasma-quality erates gentler climbing the tower. bard surfaces work and some other light-duty plasma at lower with positive work,” said Rory Wolf, vice presi- temperatures ions, roughening dent of business development at than similar deEnercon, in an interview at the vices, according to the company, the surface, and facilitating a micro-etching or scrubbing effect to Orlando show. “It has all the fea- and can handle delicate surfaces. “A lot of times, you need to remove organic and inorganic tures of blown-ion technology.” The plasma treater cleans, work on a smaller scale. A lot of contaminants. The process creates more bonding sites and allows for better adhesion, Wolf said. Wolf also displayed a new Automated Segment Actuator that allows blow molders to treat segments of web without actually climbing up to pick out the areas it wanted isolated. Previously, an operator had to climb the tower and pull out a segment where treatment was needed, and push KAG in areas that didn’t need to be Fully automatic in-house treated, he said. recycling without additional The automated system allows labor requirements an operator to handle the changes from an operator staU Self-adjusting recycling of endless tion. edge trim U Up to 100% of pellets returned to the production process U Compact system with very low operating costs U reduces energy consumption as well as CO2 emissions Frank Antosiewicz PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT FULLY AUTOMATIC RECYCLING SYSTEM FOR EDGE TRIM Enercon is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., and supplies the plastics and packaging industries. It started in business 38 years ago. Don Nimmer is CEO and owner. The company custom-builds atmospheric treating systems for rolls, webs, sheets and three-dimensional objects. The firm also has sites in Germantown, Wis.; Aylesbury, England; and Bangalore, India. Rory Wolf with Enercon’s new plasma treater ® Ingenia Polymers opens Mideast site By Frank Esposito PLASTICS NEWS STAFF After a two-year wait, Houstonbased Ingenia Polymers Corp. Scan now to watch a video demonstration! Reader available at www.scan.mobi See us at NPE Booth 7947 We know how. EREMA NORTH AMERICA INC. . Ipswich, MA 01938 / USA Phone 978 356 3771 . erema@erema.net . www.erema.at www.netstal.com At Netstal our aim is to help you manufacture the perfect drinks closures: minimum cycle times combined with maximum quality yield the lowest unit costs and best possible production. And that’s no coincidence: our team of experts are specialised exclusively in closures – and machines made to perform. NPE, West Building, hall B, booth 1503 Maximum output No defects Engineering Excellence has opened a two-line compounding plant in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 150,000-square-foot plant employs 50, with that number possibly increasing to 100 this year, President and CEO John Lefas said in a telephone interview. The site is making compounds based on polyethylene and polypropylene. “I guess I like challenges,” Lefas said when asked about his decision to place a plant in the Middle East. “I visited there and liked what I saw. This was a big project for us, so it took a little more time than we expected.” Lefas L e f a s o r i g i n a l l y had hoped to launch the Saudi plant in mid2009, but the doors opened last October. Material made at the plant will be sold into markets in the Middle East, as well as in India and China. Ingenia already operates compounding plants in Houston; Brantford, Ontario; and Calgary, Alberta. In Houston, Ingenia recently installed a new line making specialty additive concentrates. The addition allowed the firm to add about seven jobs. The firm achieved double-digit sales growth in 2011, Lefas said, thanks to a strong year in automotivebased work and in toll compounding. Lefas founded Ingenia, first known as Wedtech Inc., in Brantford in 1986, adding the Calgary plant in 1989 and the Houston site in 2000. Prior to the start, he had spent several years in the Toronto area for Exxon Chemical Co. Today, Ingenia Polymers generates about half of its sales from proprietary products and the other half from tolling work that it does for major resin makers. Plastics News photo by Frank Antosiewicz  http://www.scan.mobi http://www.eoat-products.com http://www.erema.at http://www.erema.at http://www.eoat-products.com http://www.netstal.com http://www.netstal.com

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