Quality control in extrusion lines with X-ray technology  For over 20 years, SIKORA has been internationally known for its reliable and safe X-ray measuring systems. For single-layer applications, SIKORA has …

The Bremen-based SIKORA AG is again one of the 100 fastest growing medium-sized companies in Germany. The Bremen-based company ranks 71st in the study “Germany’s fastest-growing SMEs 2022” conducted by the management consultancy Munich Strategy Group. Also this year, SIKORA is the only company in Bremen that belongs to the “TOP 100”.

In addition to his current function as Director of Sales at SIKORA AG, Holger Lieder takes over the interim responsibility for the areas Marketing and Service. In his function he directly reports to the CEO, Dr. Christian Frank.

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The wire 2022 was a great success for SIKORA. “Many customers visited our booth to experience our devices and technologies live. The visit was accompanied by pleasure and gratitude about the finally again possible, personal exchange, which could be maintained but not replaced by virtual encounters in the last years”, emphasizes Dr. Jörg Wissdorf, member of the board at SIKORA.

HÖHLE is a manufacturer of first-class microducts that are used for building fiber-optical networks to house optical fiber cables as a protective channel. Located in Estonia, the company uses SIKORA X-ray measuring systems in its plant for quality control during the extrusion of microducts. The cooperation between both companies is based on their mutual commitment to deliver high quality products to fulfil the customer demands.

Industrie Polieco-MPB uses SIKORA’s PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED to ensure highest material purity for their adhesives. The Italian-based Industrie Polieco-MPB group is the biggest European compounder of polyethylene and polypropylene. With its pipe division (Polieco), it is further one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of high-density, polyethylene, corrugated pipe systems. Within its compounding division (MPB), the company uses sorting systems for quality control to inspect and sort pellets which will be mainly used for films for food packaging. For this, Industrie Polieco-MPB relies on SIKORA’s inspection and sorting system PURITY SCANNER ADVANCED and thus ensures its customers the highest material quality.

PMH GmbH is a German manufacturer of individual extrusion lines with over 30 years of expertise. In addition to standard extrusion lines, the plant in Königswinter, Germany, also manufactures complete filament lines in which filaments for the 3D printer industry are produced. To ensure the highest possible quality in the production of the filaments, PMH equips its lines with measuring and control technology from SIKORA.

The world is facing a number of challenges today, one of which is the energy transition. For this to succeed, submarine cables of the highest quality are needed, among other things, to transport electricity from offshore wind farms over greater distances to the mainland. The Chinese manufacturer Qingdao Hanlan therefore relies on SIKORA’s measuring and control devices of the X-RAY 8000 device series for quality control in its CV lines.

Many submarine cable manufacturers, such as the Chinese company Ningbo Orient, rely on X-ray devices from SIKORA for quality control in CV lines. In addition, producers of power cables benefit from the final quality control as it ensures the highest quality of the cables delivered to their customers.