Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik

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Reifenhäuser at the Plast 2026 (www.polyformnext.de)

30 % more output for film systems

At Plast 2026, Reifenhäuser will be presenting the next generation of its blown film and flat film lines with up to 30 percent higher output and consistent automation. In addition to increased machine output, the focus will also be on MDO technologies for recyclable multilayer packaging.

Reifenhäuser's new generation of blower heads in action

Smurfit Westrock demonstrated the new generation of Reifenhäuser EVO ultra die blow heads in industrial use for the first time at the "Barrier Day". It achieves a throughput of more than 1,000 kilograms of barrier film per hour.

New film lines with higher throughput and automation

At this year's Chinaplas in Shanghai, Reifenhäuser is presenting Evo Gen3 for blown films and Everex for flat films, two new generations of lines that are designed to impress with increased throughput and a high degree of automation - also in response to the noticeable global shortage of skilled workers.

3rd place, Production category: Reifenhäuser

The Evo Gen3 from Reifenhäuser has won 3rd place in the Production category of the Product of the Year 2026 competition. The prize was awarded to a new generation of blown film that sets new standards with record outputs, high energy efficiency and intelligent assistance.

Bernd Reifenhäuser, Reifenhäuser

Uncertainty, pressure to adapt and remarkable innovative strength: at the turn of the year, we once again asked decision-makers in the plastics industry what shaped 2025, what successes and challenges characterized the year, what gives confidence for 2026 and which strategic decisions are now crucial.

Ulrich Reifenhäuser ends operational activities

After four decades, Ulrich Reifenhäuser retires from the operational management of the Reifenhäuser Group and moves to the Advisory Board.

Reifenhäuser: Evo Gen3 blown film line

With the Evo Gen3, Reifenhäuser is launching a new generation of blown film onto the market that achieves throughputs of up to 1,050 kg/h with a 350 mm die diameter and works particularly efficiently thanks to ultra-die blow heads and an ultra-cool Gen3 cooling ring. The system has been nominated for the 2026 Product of the Year competition in the Production category.

Reifenhäuser increases blown film throughput by 30%

Reifenhäuser presented its new blown film generation at the K trade fair. The system achieves outputs of up to 1,050 kg/h with a 350 mm die diameter and combines high productivity with smart assistance systems and future-proof connectivity.

Marcel Perrevort, Chief Sales Officer, Reifenhäuser Group

K 2025 is characterized by far-reaching changes: Digitalization, the circular economy, geopolitical uncertainties and rising costs are shaping the industry. A survey we conducted among some exhibitors reveals key trends, challenges and demands on politics and society.

New business division for AI-supported production

With Reifenhäuser Next, the Group bundles AI-supported solutions for process optimization and real-time quality assurance. The modular systems Next.AI, Next.Learning and Next.Data can be flexibly integrated into existing and new systems.

Automation boost for flat film extrusion

Reifenhäuser is presenting the new generation of its PAM automation system at K 2025. PAM 2.0 controls dies and coextrusion adapters during operation and reproduces stored recipes at the touch of a button. This enables producers to achieve maximum efficiency with minimal manual intervention.

Recyclable packaging at competitive costs

At Chinaplas 2025, the Reifenhäuser Group will be presenting solutions for the key challenges facing today's plastics industry: reducing resource consumption, increasing recyclability and making production more autonomous and efficient.

Marcel Perrevort, Reifenhäuser Group

For many companies, 2024 continued to be characterized by economic challenges, geopolitical tensions and structural changes. At the turn of the year, we once again asked decision-makers in the plastics industry what factors dominated the year, what successes were achieved and how companies are positioning themselves for the future.

PAM success story (www.polyformnext.de)

Reifenhäuser supplies 150th mechatronic slot die automation system

Extrusion machine specialist Reifenhäuser first introduced the automation system PAM (precise, autonomous, mechatronic) for wide slot dies and coextrusion adapters in 2022. The 150th system has now been installed on a customer system. The mechatronic control system has advantages over automatic thermal expansion bolt systems.

The nominees in the Production category

In the competition for the KUNSTSTOFF MAGAZINE Products of the Year 2025, there are 11 nominees to choose from in the Production category. Here you can find out which products and solutions we have entered into the race.

Tire houses: 18 μm thin MDO PE film

Reifenhäuser Blown Film has developed a fully recyclable MDO PE film that is just 18 micrometers thick: Thanks to the patented Evo-Ultra-Stretch technology, it offers strength, visual appeal and process stability - and reduces material usage by 25 percent. The film has been nominated in the competition for Product of the Year 2025 in the Production category.

Recyclable MDO-PE films to become competitive

LG Chem and Reifenhäuser want to jointly develop MDO PE blown films and flat films for recyclable packaging. The aim is to produce recyclable films at competitive costs in a stable process.

Perrevort is the new CSO at Reifenhäuser

With effect from July 1, Marcel Perrevort has taken over the position of Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the Reifenhäuser Group. He succeeds Ulrich Reifenhäuser, who held this position for more than 25 years.

Reifenhäuser presents the world's first 18 μm thin MDO PE film

Reifenhäuser Blown Film has produced the world's first MDO PE film with a thickness of just 18 micrometers on its Evo blown film lines using the patented Evo Ultra-Stretch MDO technology, which matches or even exceeds all previous market standards in terms of mechanical properties, appearance and further processing.

The fourth generation begins at Reifenhäuser

Jan Karnath, a nephew of Bernd Reifenhäuser (CEO) and Ulrich Reifenhäuser (CSO), is the first representative of the fourth generation to join the operational business of the Reifenhäuser Group.

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CSO, Reifenhäuser Group

2023 was characterized by economic stagnation with high, albeit declining, inflation rates and geopolitical tensions and crises. But with Fakuma and the innovations presented there, there was also a lot of positive news last year. At the turn of the year 2023/2024, we once again asked decision-makers in the plastics industry about their highlights of 2023 and their predictions for the development of this year.

JaeKwang takes film production into its own hands

JaeKwang is one of the best-known packaging manufacturers in South Korea. The company, which had previously operated exclusively as a converter, decided last year to take film production into its own hands. The company is now the first in South Korea to produce CPP flat films in a 5-layer process.

Reifenhäuser relies on digital product passports and transparency

The Reifenhäuser Group offers digital product passports (DPP) for plastics based on GS1 standards. All relevant information on the material and processing is stored in the R-Cycle DPPs, enabling customers to make their products traceable.

Packaging technology: More data for the production chain

RE: and Comexi want to drive digitalization in the plastics extrusion and packaging industry. The two companies are pursuing a holistic approach that will enable plastics processors and packaging manufacturers to seamlessly network their entire production and thus tap into completely new optimization potential.

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Reifenhäuser Group

Fakuma 2023 will take place in Friedrichshafen from October 17 to 21. KUNSTSTOFF MAGAZIN asked the exhibitors: What expectations do you have of Fakuma and what trends and developments do you see in the plastics industry?

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Reifenhäuser Group

2022 was a demanding, challenging financial year, but it was also the year in which normality returned with the K trade fair. At the turn of the year 2022/2023, we once again asked decision-makers in the plastics industry: What was your biggest highlight in 2022? Is the outlook for 2023 gloomy or do you see any rays of hope? Which topics will keep us busy, which trends are on the rise?

Plastindia 2023 (www.polyformnext.de)

Recyclate processing and automation in film production

At Plastindia 2023 in New Delhi, Reifenhäuser will be showcasing solutions for sustainable and efficient blown and flat film production: the processing of simple recyclate into high-quality blown film, the PAM automation option for coextrusion adapters and flat dies, and the production of high-barrier films for tubes in just one process step.

Tire houses (www.polyformnext.de)

PAM automatically controls coextrusion adapters and nozzles

Reifenhäuser presented its new automation option PAM for coextrusion adapters and wide slit dies (nozzles) in flat film and sheet production as well as for extrusion coating for the first time worldwide at K 2022.

Reifenhäuser Extrusion cooperates with Maku

Reifenhäuser Extrusion Systems announced a strategic partnership with Maku during K 2022. The aim of the cooperation is to jointly market and further develop the automation system for coextrusion adapters and slot dies designed by maku.

Increasing the proportion of recyclate in blown film products

With Evo Fusion, system manufacturer Reifenhäuser Blown Film has developed a technology that is intended to make manufacturers of blown film independent of strongly fluctuating recyclate qualities and ensure a stable production process - even when processing low-quality input material.

Bernd Reifenhäuser, Reifenhäuser

K 2022 will take place in Düsseldorf from October 19 to 26. KUNSTSTOFF MAGAZIN asked the exhibitors: How are you presenting the topics of climate protection, digitalization and the circular economy and what are you personally looking forward to the most?

Ulrich Reifenhäuser awarded the Georg Menges Prize

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CSO of the Reifenhäuser Group, was awarded the Georg Menges Prize 2022. The prize recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the transfer of research findings into industrial practice.

Food-safe: Recyclable pouch with barrier effect

At K 2022, Reifenhäuser Blown Film will be presenting a fully recyclable pouch with a barrier effect against oxygen and water vapor that is suitable for food packaging.

Process for food-safe film made from PET recyclate

Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating has developed a production process with which PET recyclate can be processed directly into food-safe film without an upstream drying process.

Record output rates for heavy-duty bag applications

Reifenhäuser Blown Film introduces a new high-performance cooling system for its Evo FFS blown film line, which was specially developed for heavy-duty bag applications and achieves record output rates of more than 600 kg/h.

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Reifenhäuser

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CSO of Reifenhäuser, looks back: What was formative for 2021? And what was particularly surprising? What will keep us busy in 2022 and which trends are on the rise?

Technologies for recyclable flat and blown films

Reifenhäuser will be presenting new production technologies for sustainable and recyclable flat and blown films at Interplastica 2022 in Moscow from January 25 to 28. As an international trade fair for plastics and rubber processing, the trade fair is the leading industry platform in Russia.

Reifenhäuser is one of the best employers

The Troisdorf-based family business Reifenhäuser is once again one of the top 50 employers in Germany this year and the third best employer in the "Mechanical and Plant Engineering" category. This is the conclusion reached by Stern magazine in collaboration with the market research institute Statista.

Tire houses (www.polyformnext.de)

PET film made from PCR for food contact

The Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating business unit, which specializes in flat films, is presenting its solution for producing sustainable PET film from up to 100 percent PET bottle scrap (PCR) for direct food contact.

Personnel (www.polyformnext.de)

SKZ Board of Directors: Guido Frohnhaus and Ulrich Reifenhäuser unanimously elected

Guido Frohnhaus, Managing Director Technology at Arburg, and Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Managing Director of Reifenhäuser and Chairman of the VDMA Committee for Plastics and Rubber Machinery, were unanimously elected as new members of the SKZ Board of Directors.

Blown film (www.polyformnext.de)

Reifenhäuser bundles expertise

Effective July 1, the Reifenhäuser Group is merging its blown film units under the joint Reifenhäuser Blown Film brand.

Honor (www.polyformnext.de)

Ulrich Reifenhäuser in the Plastics Hall of Fame

After three years, personalities from the plastics industry have once again been inducted into the "Plastics Hall of Fame" - one of them is Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Managing Director of the Reifenhäuser Group, Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board of the K plastics trade fair and Chairman of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association.

Video (www.polyformnext.de)

R-Cycle - data transparency enables circular economy

R-Cycle is the open and globally applicable standard for the digital traceability of plastic packaging throughout its life cycle. The aim is to ensure recyclability through seamless documentation of all recycling-relevant packaging data based on established technologies (GS1 standard).

Reifenhäuser in the #ForumRecyclate

Reifenhäuser joins the #ForumRezyklat and is thus involved in another initiative for a functioning circular economy for plastic packaging.

All-PE pouches better for recycling

One hundred percent recyclability and good barrier properties need not be a contradiction in terms. With a patented stretching unit, polyethylene (PE) as a mono-material is to become a high-performance and economical alternative to PET.

Less is more (www.polyformnext.de)

Conserving resources and reducing costs in extrusion

Circular economy, bioplastics - these and other buzzwords are currently dominating public discussions. A way to conserve resources on the one hand and increase efficiency on the other: plastics that are not processed do not require recycling and do not consume resources.

Reifenhäuser takes over Plamex Maschinenbau

On February 18, 2019, the Reifenhäuser Group took over Plamex Maschinenbau GmbH in Kelberg. Plamex is a company owned by the Herchenbach family, which specializes in the development and production of technologically sophisticated extrusion systems and extrusion components.

Outlook (www.polyformnext.de)

Ulrich Reifenhäuser: "Modernization and upgrading projects will become more important."

Business development for the Reifenhäuser Group in 2018 was successful. Profitable growth was achieved in all product areas that Reifenhäuser serves in the extrusion market.

New generation of PET thermoforming systems

Following the introduction of extrusion lines for PET thermoforming sheet with the patented mechatronic roll stackers from the Mirex-MT-V series in 2013, the next generation of this type of line is now being launched.

Reifenhäuser sells Reimotec to Dietze and Schell

With effect from February 1, 2017, Reifenhäuser Maschinenfabrik transferred its activities in the monofilament, packaging tape and artificial turf markets to the Coburg-based company Dietze und Schell Maschinenfabrik in the form of the two companies Reimotec Maschinen- und Anlagenbau and Reimotec Winding Technology.

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