COLLIN Lab Line

Presses E, E air & P Entrance

The Type E Series Platen Press is the entrance version among the COLLIN presses. As 4-column design with fixed upper counter plate and moveable lower plate, the COLLIN presses cover an enormous pressure range. Due to the large distance between the columns, optimal handling possibilities in the interior of the press are created.

• Economically designed system.
• Covers a wide range of pressures.
• Optimal handling in the interior of the press due to the design. Selection between manual control and automatic operation.

Blown Film Lines E Entrance (air-cooled)

The E for Entrance Blown Film Line is the ideal entrance machine for quality control, development of films or function tests of plastics. Technical description The unit includes a moveable base frame, on which the components are mounted. The central column with take-off unit, lay flat unit as well as control panel is the main component. The take-off unit is followed by a roller guiding section and a winding system.

• Quick material and colour change
• Compact line, small footprint
• Reliable, European quality
• Cost-efficient, reliable entrance machine

Compounders E Entrance

Compounders are used for testing, developing and producing different polymeric materials such as thermoplasts, elastomers, food and for medical & pharmaceutical applications. The Compounder Type E Entrance is perfectly suitable for simple compounding works. The standard machine can very variably compound different polymers and is very flexible regarding dosing – side feeders, volumetric or gravimetric dosing units.

• Modular design and application versions
• Easy operability
• Different applications
• Different screw lengths for high flexibility in development
• Clamping flanges for easy dismounting
• Standard base cabinet on rollers

Stretching frames

Stretching frames are used for biaxial stretching of plastic films. It is worth mentioning that these machines are especially designed for a film thickness of up to 3.5 mm and for stretching at temperature of up to 400°C. Technical description The basic component of the unit are clips. Each clip has a fixed lower part and a movable upper part. A special design enables an increase of the clamping force to approx.

• Film thickness of up to 3.5 mm
• Temperatures of up to 450°C
• Heated clips
• Quick adjustment of the process parameters
• Operating mode: axial, biaxial, simultaneous, sequential
• Quick temperature change by infrared heating systems

Blown Film Lines P Professional (air-cooled)

The Blown Film Line P Professional is characterized by its compact design with small footprint. It is easy to operate and offers exact, repeatable movements and quick change of products and parameters. Technical description The unit includes a moveable base frame, on which the components are mounted. The central column with take-off unit, lay flat unit as well as control panel is the main component.

• Compact line, small footprint
• Flexibly adjustable tower height (standard mechanically, optional electrically)
• Flexible process parameters
• Up to 13 extruders
• Reliable quality
• Many features available

Flat Film Lines with 2 rolls

This basic unit includes two rolls in horizontal position, suitable for cast films. COLLIN designs the rolls according to the customer requirements such as for example speed, roll width, roll coating etc. The roll group is horizontally arranged, suitable for a vertical die position. The roll group consists of a cast roll as well as a cooling roll. Both rolls are driven by one motor.

• Quick sample production
• Diverse accessories such as for example camera inspection, edge cutting or winding etc. are possible
• Prism rails for more precision in the machine guidance
• Easily traversable
• Flexible and modular design
• Operable by one person

Filament winder

COLLIN filament winders are especially suitable for flexible strands or small hoses with diameters of 0.5 up to 4 mm. The winder has a modular design and is thus freely configurable. The strand runs via a filament guidance, then via a dancer system, is traversed and then wound. The winding unit has one or two winding stations – two can be operated sequentially or parallelly.

• Modular design
• Freely configurable
• Compact design
• Easy access
• Coil quick clamping system for quick changing
• Sequential or parallel operation of the winding stations

High-Performance Presses S & SV

The Platen Presses S and SV are high-performance versions of the COLLIN presses. The S series for servo hydraulics convinces by its ergonomic, space-saving and modern design – the efficient servo hydraulics by its quiet operation, the highly precise pressure control and a low energy consumption. Moreover, due to this concept, cooling water is no longer required.

• High pressure accuracy of +/- 0.5 bar
• High temperature accuracy over the platen surface
• Highly precise temperature and pressure ramp control
• Reduced energy consumption of the motor
• Operator friendly by touch screen control

Extruders E Entrance

The E series extruders are the entrance version among the COLLIN extruders. Designed for laboratory operation and for test series in R&D, the compact lines are a cost-efficient alternative to the P Professional series extruders. The laboratory extruder is mounted on a moveable electrical cabinet, which includes the power electronics and the main switch.

• Reasonable alternative in laboratory and test operation (laboratory extruder)
• Different sizes for different requirements
• Different downstream equipment – depending on the requirement – available
• Easy handling due to compact design

MDO Stretching Lines

The stretching of polymer films improves their characteristics in many ways. COLLIN offers laboratory and pilot lines for stretching films for a wide range of thermoplastic materials and compounds. These lines are used for quality control and the development of new products and processes. They can also be used for the production of narrow films.

• Improvement of film characteristics
• Extension of application possibilities of the film
• High variability of the stretching unit
• Optimisation of mechanical characteristics such as tensile strength, elongation as well as barrier effect against different media
• Compact design
• Film can manually be fed

Mono & Multi-Filament Lines

Mono-filament lines - 3D filament line / strand lines According to the respective customer requirement, COLLIN 3D filament and strand lines can flexibly be arranged with different machine elements. With these lines, customers produce filaments made of different materials, for example for the further processing in the 3D print procedure.

• Flexible material usage
• Flexible strand shape
• Highest precision regarding roundness
• Constant diameter
• Low space requirement
• Flexibly applicable, also for coextrusion

Roll Mills M Measuring

Roll Mills M Measuring are essential for all processes in development and production control. The accuracy of the setting parameters and the large number of measuring devices allow a reproducible determination of characteristic material data, whereby the creation of optimal setting parameters for all production machines is supported.

• Reproducibility
• Large number of integrated measuring devices
• Many options

Flat Film Lines with 3 rolls

These COLLIN flat film lines combine smoothing calender and chill roll and are used in the production of thin-walled or thick-walled films. The 3-roll unit can be used for vertical or horizontal operation – the roll group can be swivelled by 90 degrees. The forces in the smoothing gap can hydraulically or pneumatically be generated.

Strand Pelletizers

Strand pelletizers are used for cutting thermoplastic plastic strands. Strand pelletizers The COLLIN strand pelletizer basic system has one drive – for a pre-defined pellet length of approx. 3 mm. The strand pelletizer with two independent, variable drives enables the stepless adjustment of the pellet length from 0.8 up to 5 mm.

• Compact system
• Variable in design resp. drive
• Wide viscosity range can be pelletized
• Less dust
• Micro-pellets are possible
• Low noise level

Extruders P Professional

The Extruders P Professional are real allrounders, since they are used for different requirements. Due to their innovative concept, these lines are versatile: for R&D or the production with flexible throughput range. Modularity – one of the advantages of COLLIN products – is lived with the P series extruders.

• Drive concept and fields of application
• Variety of application and extension possibilities
• Very good handling due to compact design
• Optimal operation via touch screen
• Ideal for multi-layer lines, since different downstream equipment can individually be adapted

Roll Mills P & PR Professional

The P Professional series and Roll Mills PR Professional Rubber are characterized by high reproducibility and are designed for more challenging tests in the laboratory. For mixing, kneading or forming plastics, the COLLIN testing roll mills are equipped with a motor-driven gap adjustment.

• Perfect for challenging tests in the laboratory
• Good reproducibility plus protocol data
• As stand-alone unit or as downstream equipment

Compounders P Professional

The P for Professional series compounders is the high-performance version among the COLLIN compounders. Correspondingly, they are also available as high-performance version for a process temperature of up to 500°C.

• Quick retrofitting between co and counterrotating
• Modular design and different applications
• Easy operability
• Different applications
• Modular screws for different mixing tasks
• Different screw length for high flexibility

Feedblock

The flow-optimized feedblock is characterized by excellent layer thickness distribution Extremely compact in design and shape Up to 13 layers are possible Very short purging times enable quick material changes

Lab Line Winders

There are different designs of COLLIN winders and all winders are designed according to the respective web speed. Our Lab Line winders are designed for a winding width of up to 600 mm.

• High flexibility
• Easy handling

Lab Line Water Baths

Water baths are available with standard lengths of 2000 mm and 3000 mm as well as with individual length on demand.

Roll Mills E & ER Entrance

• Cost-effective E Entrance series
• Ideal machine for routine work in laboratories
• Wide range of application
• Practical handling due to the design

Multi-Function Coating lines

Multi-function coating lines are used in the packaging sector for the production of multi-polymer compounds with carrier materials such as paper, textile, fleece or aluminium. The system allows the integration of different additional devices, e. g. Corona pre-treatment or for example additional winders. According to the customer requirements, these lines are individually designed, developed and manufactured.

• Also for high speeds
• Ideal for small batches
• R&D of packaging
• Different layers
• Roll position adjustable in x and z direction to one another
• Easy accessibility, flexible

Blown Film Lines P (water-cooled)

These lines are designed for film production. The radial distributor system ensures an exact thickness distribution, the vertical extrusion into a water-cooled ring guarantees an optimal film transparency. Several elevated extruders feed into the multi-layer die. The hose is guided downwards into a water-cooled ring, then laid flat, dried, if necessary cut and wound on rolls.

Lab Line Blown Film Dies

COLLIN offers mono blown film dies with axial or radial spiral mandrel distributor – depending on the desired expandability or application. Multi-layer dies for 2 up to 13 layers are suitable for different numbers of layers. For these processes, COLLIN delivers dies with radial spiral mandrel distributors, moreover, different mandrels and matrix are available.

Lab Line Calenders

Laboratory calenders are used for the development of films, film compound systems and sheets with different layer thicknesses made of different polymer materials such as PVC, polyolefins, PU etc. The COLLIN calenders are available with roll diameters of 144 mm, 250 mm or larger. Custom-made machines, adapted to the process conditions are standard at COLLIN.

• Different operating modes possible
• Easy retrofit to another operating mode
• Quick roll change
• 2 speed levels
• Highest rotation accuracy
• Low wall thickness tolerances

Flat film dies

Available with flex lip from 100 mm, gap adjustment via differential screws Manually adjustable gap Coat-hanger distributor Prepared for coextrusion Available as high-temperature version Die lip heating and side cheek heating as option Further distributor geometries as option Dies with smaller gap (<150 μm) on request

Software Visual Fecon

Lab & Pilot Solutions Software Visual Fecon As option, COLLIN offers the software package Visual Fecon for all machines and lines. Data logging and evaluation via PC Permanent data recording of all process-relevant values Archiving and loading of programs and parameters Freely configurable face plates (i. e.