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Technology Update
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New extrusion lines for IBG Pakplastik
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IBG PAKPLASTIK, one of Turkey’s
biggest plastics processors, has been a
key customer of KraussMaffei Berstorff
for more than 15 years. IBG Pakplastik
recently rolled out operation of ten newly
developed profile extruders and two new
PP pipelines supplied by the Munich
engineering company.
IBG Pakplastik, a leading manufacturer
of plastic window profiles, pipe and sheet,
is headquartered in Istanbul. In the first
half of 2009, the company added ten
KraussMaffei Berstorff KMD 114-26/P
profile extruders to its machine park.
Two KraussMaffei Berstorff PP pipe
extrusion lines also went into production
at the same time. “This project came
to us first and foremost because of the
good, long-term co-operation between
our two companies,” explained Markus
Geisenhofer, KraussMaffei Berstorff
sales manager for the Near and Middle
East.
Initially, IBG Pakplastik was using
KraussMaffei Berstorff extrusion lines only
for PVC window profiles. In 2005, the
company decided to expand into production
of plastic pipe at its plant in Konya in
Anatolia.
Since then, all IBG Pakplastik pipe
extrusion lines have been supplied by
KraussMaffei Berstorff. The company
produces pipe between 16 and 1,000mm
diameter, including polypropylene (PP),
polyethylene (PE), corrugated pipe and
aluminium composite pipe.
IBG Pakplastik is using one of the new
pipelines to produce a multilayer PP-R
pipe, where the middle layer is filled with
glassfibre. “This is a special, new type
of pipe outstandingly suited to hot water
applications, because the component
properties combine to reduce longitudinal
expansion,” explains Mr Geisenhofer. The
process, developed in Western Europe, is
new in Turkey. “In Turkey, KraussMaffei
Berstorff is market leader in multilayer pipe
extrusion.
"The system in operation at IBG is a good
reference project for the whole of Turkey,”
enthuses Geisenhofer. In the co-extrusion
system, two extruders feed melt to the
multilayer pipehead, so that the three-layer
pipe is extruded in one work process.
IBG Pakplastik – Turkey
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 KraussMaffei Berstorff pipe extrusion
lines in the production plant