14/12/2020 – Inspection and sorting of plastic pellets
Inspection and sorting of plastic pellets
Black specks and color deviations often lead to increased scrap rates in the production of plastic injection molded parts, but also in the manufacture ...

“Kurre Systems” is the new name that unites Kurre Spezialmaschinenbau and Siebe Engineering. © Kurre Systems
14/12/2020 – Kurre and Siebe become “Kurre Systems”
Kurre and Siebe become “Kurre Systems”
After a two-year transition period, the integration of the extruder specialist Siebe Engineering into the Kurre Group will be completed on January 1, ...

From left to right: Thomas Marek (KONSTANT), Peter Geisler (KONSTANT), Jürgen Hochstöger (hpw), Clemens Gapp (KONSTANT), Dietmar Gstrein (KONSTANT), Ewald Koppensteiner (hpw) and Harald Lackner (hpw). © hpw metallwerk
14/12/2020 – Foundation of third business division
Foundation of third business division
Konstant group in Innsbruck/Austria has acquired a stake in the traditional metalwork company Gebauer+Griller Metallwerk in Linz/Austria, despite the ...

The core piece of this new rolling mill is a 3-roll Reducing+Sizing Block [RSB] in 5.0 design supplied by Friedrich Kocks. © Friedrich Kocks
14/12/2020 – Successful commissioned
Successful commissioned
The Chinese special steel producer Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron+Steel Co. Ltd. has started up its completely new SBQ mill #3.

HVDC cable compounds based on Borealis “Borlink” to be used in XLPE power cables at 525 kV level for majority of the German corridor projects. © Borealis
10/12/2020 – Cable materials
Cable materials
This marks the first use of the “Borlink XLPE HVDC” technology at extra-high levels of 525 kilovolt (kV). Comprising three separate corridors, this huge ...