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design that, despite these difficulties, makes material defects visible.

The company’s PVC profile products include door and window systems (60-70mm, 3-4-5 chambers), wall covering (lambaries) profiles, decorative suspended ceilings, rolling shutter profiles and door filling profiles. Rigid PVC products include disposal pipes and fittings, pressure pipes and fittings, and deep well pipes and fittings. Other PVC products include transparent and coloured garden hoses, braided transparent hoses and LPG hoses, spiral hoses, drainage pipes and fittings, and irrigation and infrastructure systems. Esen Plastik’s polypropylene products include PPRC pipes and fittings for the replacement of galvanised iron pipes and fittings at the building, and PEX-AL- PEX pipes. The polyethylene product range consists of HDPE pipes and fittings, LDPE pipes and fittings, MDPE natural gas pipes, PEX crosslink polyethylene, aluminium PEX pipes and PE corrugated pipes.

Björn Lindner, managing director of Pixargus, seesgreat advantages for both manufacturers and users. “Especially in medicine, 100% inspection is a must. At production speeds of 50m/min and above, the human eye is unable to detect extremely small irregularities, above all on a transparent material. Also, so-called node monitoring devices, which used to be employed in the past, only measure the outside diameter in two axes. Our system, on the other hand, inspects every individual centimetre of the complete tube. This ensures that only material of perfect quality is delivered to the customer. But the system also helps manufacturers to significantly reduce their production costs.”

air bubble, this can cause irritation or lead to false conclusions. The compact measuring head enables the system to be easily integrated into existing production lines p PC 5-Medictube detects such defects – for example holes, fissures, foreign particles or inclusions in the tubing material – during the production process. Operating staff can immediately take corrective action and correct the defective material. At the same time it helps to avoid such defects in the future. Besides the fact that the outside diameters of the tubing are often very small, the semi- transparency of the product surfaces poses another challenge to inspection system designers, and was one reason why automatic inspection of these materials was not possible in the past. Also, material-inherent reflections of the lustrous tube surfaces pose a difficult-to-solve problem for optical inspection systems. Pixargus has now succeeded in combining light and camera technology in a sophisticated

Pixargus GmbH – Germany info@pixargus.de www.pixargus.de

Esen Plastik – Turkey cuneytnarin@esen.com www.eseplastik.com

Turkish pipes and fittings

Esen Plastik, Turkey, produces and exports PPRC, PVC and PE pipes and fittings, and PVC profiles. The company uses the latest technology to provide a rapid and accurate response to customer needs and reduced lead times for its exported goods. The company has the ISO-9002 quality certificate and exports to countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. ZheJiang Panan Xingda Rubber & Plastic Factory, China, was established in 1989, and is located in Jianshan Industry Zone, Zhejiang Province. The company produces a wide range of plastic products, including rubber plastic hoses, tubes and pipes for home appliances such as vacuum cleaners, air conditioners and washing machines, plastic parts and fittings, and sanitary plastic component parts.

Parts and fittings from China

A selection of products from ZheJiang Panan Xingda

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ZheJiang Panan Xingda Rubber & Plastic Factory – China zhilan_hu@yahoo.com.cn • http://xdxs.en.alibaba.com

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