Research and development

From the idea to the prototype is the idea behind our tradition in R&D.

Intensive, focalized and continuous R&D activities are at the base of our innovation capability. Highly trained technical team, modern high specialized laboratory unit supports a wide range of extrusion and injection pilot units used to simulate different chemistry and different processes in order to obtain new properties and new PET based products: in the last year our R&D unit has improved its capability towards r-PET to generate solution supportive to the circularity of PET.

From the idea to the prototype is the idea behind our tradition in R&D.

Intensive, focalized and continuous R&D activities are at the base of our innovation capability. Highly trained technical team, modern high specialized laboratory unit supports a wide range of extrusion and injection pilot units used to simulate different chemistry and different processes in order to obtain new properties and new PET based products: in the last year our R&D unit has improved its capability towards r-PET to generate solution supportive to the circularity of PET.

Technical Area.

Our R&D unit is equipped with the latest state of the art equipment to have the widest possibility for internal and third party R&D project:
Multi compounding extrusion line: resin drying units, gravimetric dosing units, high mixing, vacuum, liquid injection, filtering, static mixer devices are available in our flexible extrusion compounding line for polymeric granulate production;
A-PET sheet extrusion line: A; A/B or A/B/A structure at 500 mm width for thermoforming trials ;
Lab thermoforming station;
PET-Foam extrusion line: small PET extrusion boards down to 50 kg/m3 density with direct gas injection;
Injection Molding unit for small specimen production;

Laboratory.

Laboratory equipped with:
Atomic absorbption
Intrinsic viscosity measurment (solution)
Chips moisture analyzer (down to 10 ppm)
DSC (differential scanning calorimeter)
HPLC
Oxygen permeation system (OTR)
CO2 permeation system
Relative Humidity measurement system
Dansensor O2 measurement
Fibox O2 measurement
FTIR
Optical Microscope
Colour, measurement;
Gloss and haze measurement
Rheological evaluation
Mechanical properties evaluation
Impact properties evaluation
Dansensor O2 measurement