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• Food in Focus Edition 3/2024

  • The Future of Breakfast: High-Protein Cereals

    A new trend is shaking up the breakfast market: high-protein cereals. These cereals can contain up to 40% protein in place of starch and are particularly appealing to health-conscious consumers looking to reduce meat consumption and carbohydrate intake.

  • ZSK Extruder at Tetra: Control System Upgrade in Record Time

    ZSK Extruder control retrofit increases productivity and efficiency.

  • Soft Caramel Extrusion: Mixing, Kneading and Pulling in One Process Step

    Candies are widely beloved and represent one of the most lucrative segments in the confection industry. Using a continuous process with the co-rotating twin screw extruder from Gabler Engineering can optimize the production process.

• Plastics In Focus Edition 5/2024

  • Modernization of Compounding Plants

    How to improve system performance by implementing state-of-the-art product discharge and material handling technology

  • ZSK Extruder at Tetra: Control System Upgrade in Record Time

    ZSK Extruder control retrofit increases productivity and efficiency

  • The Remanufacturing of Used Machines is to Herbold Meckesheim like Steel to its Plants

    Herbold Meckesheim has been thinking about the circular economy from the very beginning. When the special machine builder offered its first solutions for plastics recycling some 40 years ago, not everyone understood its mission.

  • Shape What Matters for Tomorrow

    Coperion is committed to continuous improvement for the benefit of our customers, all stakeholders, and our environment. This commitment involves many incremental steps: We constantly refine our processes and upgrade our infrastructure.

  • Creating New from Used: Which Technologies Are Key for High-Efficiency Plastics Recycling

    Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim hosted a two-day recycling conference

• India In Focus Edition 01/24

  • Interview with Magpet Polymer: Closing the Loop with New Bottle-to-Bottle-Recycling Plant

    The Indian preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt Ltd recently decided to build a new plant for the recycling of PET bottles and equip it with an integrated recycling system from Herbold Meckesheim and Coperion. In addition to the mechanical processing of used PET bottles, the recycling system encompasses all process steps leading up to extrusion with a ZSK twin screw extruder, including pelletizing and an SSP (Solid State Polycondensation) reactor. We talked to Devendra Surana, Managing Director at Magpet, & Indroneel Goho, President & CEO at Magpet, to learn more about their business, their long-term vision as well as the main drivers of this project.

  • Reliable Bulk Materials Handling Components for the Paint Industry

    Earlier this year, Coperion presented its reliable first-class bulk materials handling components at Paint India in New Delhi.

  • Infographic: Manufacturing of cable compounds

  • Get to know Coperion Noida

• Plastics In Focus Edition 4/2024

  • Innovative Interplay: ZSK FilCo Filtration Compounder and ZS-B MEGAfeed Side Feeder

    Higher Quality and Efficiency in Plastics Recycling

  • Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim deliver bottle-to-bottle recycling plant to Magpet

    PET bottle recycling solution from a single source

  • New Coperion Compact Design FFU Universal Gate Valve

    Suitable for a variety of discharge applications in bulk material handling

• Food in Focus Edition 2/2024

  • Schenck Process FPM is Becoming Coperion

    Effective August 1, 2024, the company will officially transition its name under Coperion.

  • Co-Extrusion Adds Value to Extruded Cereals, Snacks and Pet Treats

    Part of Coperion since September 2023, Baker Perkins offers a smart system known as Co-Ex Master, which enhances the value of extruded breakfast cereals, snacks, and pet treats.

  • Hygienic Design Loss-In-Weight Vibratory Feeder Ideal for Food Applications

    The unique Coperion K-Tron K3 line of vibratory feeders is optimally suited to the gentle addition of friable ingredients.

  • What possibilities does the new ZSK Food Extruder offer at the Food Test Center in Stuttgart?

    We have successfully expanded the Food Test Center at the Coperion site in Stuttgart with a new ZSK 27 Food Extruder in Hygienic Design. This enables us to carry out even more diverse extrusion for food and pet food products.

• Plastics In Focus Edition 3/2024

  • Leveraging Technology to Propel Recycling Market Growth

    Opinion piece by Christopher Dow, Business Development Manager at Coperion's Recycling Business Unit

  • ZSK FilCo Filtration Compounder

    For higher product quality and lower energy consumption in plastics recycling.

  • Herbold Meckesheim Technical Center

    View the latest video introducing Herbold Meckesheim’s Test Center.

  • ProRate™ PLUS Feeders

    Reliable feeding of free-flowing bulk materials in plastic processing applications

• Plastics In Focus Edition 2/2024

  • Plastics Recycling: An End to Unpleasant Odors

    Recycled plastics often carry unpleasant odors caused by surface contaminants, solvent residue, additives and/or foreign materials. Disruptive smells may also stem from packaging that has absorbed the odor of its original contents. Such transferred odorants are particularly hard to remove.

  • STS 75 Mc PLUS: Higher Throughput with Improved Compound Quality

    For the STS 75, Coperion has raised the specific torque of the STS twin screw extruder from 11.3 Nm/cm³ to 13.6 Nm/cm³.

  • ZAQ Rotary Valves: New Size for Even Higher Throughputs

    We have added a new size to the ZAQ series of high-pressure discharge rotary valves: the new ZAQ 700 is designed for particularly high throughputs of up to 150 t/h and is suitable for feeding powder into pneumatic conveying systems of up to 3.5 bar.

  • ProRate PLUS. Surprisingly Powerful.

    In the continuous production of plastic products, equipment for the controlled feeding of bulk materials into extruders and/or mixers is essential. In most cases loss-in-weight screw feeders are used to feed the bulk materials. The flawless operation of loss-in-weight feeders is the key to successful production. But what are the most common challenges when operating screw feeders and how does the ProRate PLUS line meet the requirements of the plastics processing industry?

  • Filtration Compounder ZSK FilCo Awarded

    Once again KUNSTSTOFF MAGAZIN, a leading German publication for the plastics industry, recognized innovations as part of their “Product of the Year” competition.

• Pharma in Focus Edition 1/2024

  • Innovative Equipment for Both Batch and Continuous Processing

    Coperion FHN – Food, Health and Nutrition Division

  • Systems from a single supplier for perfect pellet manufacturing in the pharma industry

    Combined expertise for value-added customer solutions

  • Why a Consistent Mixing Technology Range is Key to Scaling Up Cosmetic Productions

    From laboratory to large-scale production

  • Successful Modernization of a Pharma Coating Line

    Wiewelhove switches from a manual to an automated production set-up for improved process and batch control

• Food in Focus Edition 1/2024

  • New MEGAtex S7 Cooling Die Offers HMMA Meat Substitute Manufactures Significantly Greater Flexibility

    Coperion develops MEGAtex cooling die for manufacturing plant-based meat substitutes.

  • Zippy Edibles Chooses Coperion as Partner for the Advanced Production of Plant-Based Meat Analogues

    To significantly advance its production, Zippy Edibles decided on a Coperion ZSK twin screw extruder and a high-accurate Coperion K-Tron feeder to manufacture High Moisture Meat Analogues (HMMA).

  • Efficient Pressure Compensation Improves Weighing Accuracy in Loss-in-weight Feeders

    Loss-in-weight (LIW) feeder performance is dependent on accurate weighing, which can be affected by a variety of influences, both internal and external to the feeder and feeder process.

• Plastics in Focus Edition 1/2024

  • New ZSK FilCo Filtration Compounder for Higher Product Quality and Reduced Energy Consumption in PCR and Polymer Recycling

    Coperion develops ZSK FilCo system for PCR and polymer recycling

  • Coperion Optimizes ZSK 18 MEGAlab Extruder Design for Significantly Greater Flexibility

    Improved Function and New Feeder Platform.

  • Cutting Rotors for Strand Pelletizers - Now Available Directly at Attractive Conditions

    Our strand pelletizers for the production of cylindrical pellets have been proven successful in the marketplace for many years.

  • Training that Helps You and Your Business Move Forward

    We offer a comprehensive training program for all our technologies and process solutions.

  • 100 Metric Tons of PET Recyclate per Day

    Herbold Meckesheim supplies fifth PET washing line to Türkiye – Doğa will produce rPET flakes for bottle-to-bottle applications

  • Research Lab for Testing Hazardous Materials

    Coperion offers a fully equipped research lab for hazardous materials such as ternary cathode materials (CAM) at our site in Niederbiegen, Germany.