Horizon Systems Inc. is a leading provider of automated ingredient handling and pneumatic conveying systems, along with comprehensive aftermarket support for the food and pet food industries. As a U.S.-owned company, we deliver innovative process solutions worldwide—offering engineering, manufacturing, components, and services to keep your operations running smoothly. From turnkey system design and installation for new facilities to ongoing production support for existing systems, Horizon Systems is a trusted partner in ingredient management, transfer, storage, and automation. Our customers rely on us for cutting-edge solutions, high-quality manufacturing, and a personalized, end-to-end approach tailored to their unique needs. Our knowledgeable sales team is ready to help you explore new approaches to easy-clean components, efficient takeaway system designs, and advanced pneumatic technology for gentle product delivery to packaging. By integrating active, passive, and preventative sanitation principles into our solutions, we help safeguard your customers, employees, and brand. We look forward to connecting with you at booth 6113 to discuss how Horizon Systems can elevate your processing operations through Smarter Process Solutions. | Horizon Systems Inc. is a comprehensive provider of automated ingredient handling and pneumatic conveying systems, as well as, aftermarket support for the Food and Petfood Industry. As a US owned company, our engineering, manufacturing, component and service offerings deliver process solutions to customers worldwide. From turnkey design and installation for new facilities or additional lines, to sustaining production through parts, components and service, Horizon Systems is a trusted source for ingredient management, transfer, storage and automation. Our customers count on innovative solutions, quality manufacturing and end-to-end personal attention that listens, solves and delivers. Our sales staff will help you explore new approaches to easy clean ingredient feeders, take away system design, as well as leading pneumatic technology for gently conveying finished product to packaging. By incorporating active, passive and preventative sanitation principles to our solutions, we provide end-to-end expertise to protect your customers, employees and brand. | Plastics Bulk Material Handling & Process Solutions At Horizon Systems, we know your reputation is based on the quality and consistency of the products you produce. That’s why we focus on the complete end-to-end process. Seeing the whole picture allows us to develop solutions tailored to your business – from individual components to entire process lines. So, whether you’re building a new production facility or looking for innovative ways to enhance the efficiency, safety and reliability of your existing one, we’ll be there with the custom material handling and process solutions you need for the plastics industry. OSHA & NFPA-Conforming Custom Plastics Solutions Our engineered solutions convey powders or pellets from the rail car or truck into pre-process storage. Materials are then precisely transferred from storage through ingredient proportioning routines and other ingredient management tasks – all while process controls oversee the entire process to ensure quality control. Our OSHA- and NFPA-conforming systems will ensure the safety of your workers, reduce the risk of explosion and remove nuisance dust. Contact Us for Your Custom Plastics Handling System We custom manufacture each system with oversight from our engineering team to ensure proper specification and integration. But our attention to detail doesn’t stop there. Our Project Managers and Field Service team are available for installation, commissioning and training. We can also be there to follow up to ensure your system is operating to your exacting specifications. We even offer complete maintenance, repair and upgrade services including access to parts and component specialists. Visit our booth to see the precision, control and versatility our Intelligent Ingredient System delivers.
Guill Tool
Guill is a leading Extrusion Tooling Designer & Manufacturer with nearly 65 years of experience. Our engineers specialize in plastic extrusion tooling design, utilizing the most advanced technology currently available. We draw on our years of experience to tailor tooling and die design for your industry, helping you increase efficiency and decrease production cost when operating your plastic extruder, from extruding PVC pipe to complex profile co-extrusion.
Cutmetall
Cutmetall North America LP is the sales, service and distribution partner for Cutmetall Germany, one of the leading manufacturers and sellers of industrial knives and wear parts for the recycling industry. Producing a whole range of parts for shredders and granulators from the smallest screw or lock washer to the largest blade, screen or rotor, let us put our 27 years of experience to work for you. Having a full engineering department designing improved cutting technology for over 50 of the most common brands of size reduction equipment means we are always offering parts that fit and perform perfectly. Since 1996 Cutmetall has been a reliable partner for all kinds of recyclers from rigid plastic to tires to film and many other challenging materials. With over 8000 parts available on our 24×7 Web-Shop, Cutmetall makes you more efficient. If you also include an additional 13,000 products already designed and available to order, we offer the most complete range of parts in the industry. Cutmetall is also leading the way in terms of lowering the cost of size reduction. With our complete range of Cutmetall Carbide knives and counter-knives we can reduce downtime and labor while increasing the throughput consistency between blade changes. With our Atlanta, GA sales, service and distribution center we can serve the North American market better by stocking parts and working in your time zone.
Akron Rubber Development Laboratory
ARDL is an A2LA ISO 17025:2017 accredited, ISO 9001:2015 registered, ISO 13485:2016 registered and FDA compliant independent testing laboratory specializing in rubber, plastic and latex testing and development for medical devices, aseptic, and biocompatible materials. Services include chemical analysis, physical/mechanical testing, chemotherapy resistance, glove testing, microbiology, USP physicochemical testing, 510(k) submissions, material characterization and development, extractables/leachables, and U.S. FDA point-of-entry detentions. | Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc. is an A2LA ISO 17025:2017 accredited, ISO 9001:2015 registered, ISO 13485:2016 registered and FDA compliant independent testing, development and problem-solving laboratory for the rubber, plastics and latex industries. ARDL provides performance testing to ASTM, ISO, SAE, Aerospace, Automotive OEM and government specifications, as well as custom testing. Capabilities: compound development and formulation, prototyping, mixing, molding and extrusion; tensile, tear, hardness and adhesion; compression set, creep and stress relaxation, dynamic/thermomechanical testing; crack and cut growth, abrasion, fatigue and heat buildup; heat resistance (static), fluid resistance and permeability, durability including ozone resistance, weathering resistance and brittleness; dissipation constant, dielectric strength, volume and surface resistivity, dielectric factor; processing including cure rate and extrudability; chemical analysis of raw materials and polymers; reverse engineering, polymer identification, spectrophotometry and spectroscopy, NMR analysis; chromatography; thermogravimetric analysis, DSC; state of cure; optical and electron microscopy, LOM/OC/SEM/EDX/TEM | ARDL is an A2LA ISO 17025:2017 accredited, ISO 9001:2015 registered, FDA and ISO 13485:2016 compliant independent testing laboratory specializing in rubber, plastic and latex. | ARDL is a Worldwide Industry Leading Independent Test Laboratory Specializing in Rubber, Plastic, and Latex. ARDL is A2LA ISO 17025:2017 accredited, ISO 9001:2015 registered, ISO 13485:2016 registered and FDA compliant. Our Technical Experts are here to assist with all your Research / Development, and Testing needs.
AIMPLAS
AIMPLAS is a technology centre with 35 years of experience in the plastics industry. We provide solutions to companies throughout the value chain, from raw material manufacturers to plastic processors and end users. Our purpose is twofold: we add value to companies so that they can create wealth and provide employment and we work to solve the challenges facing the use of plastic in today’s society in order to improve people’s quality of life and ensure environmental sustainability. We have 12,000 sqm of facilities with cutting-edge technology, 35 pilot plants are available to test all plastic processing applications, including thermoplastic, thermoset and composite processing and our laboratories have the highest number of accreditations for plastics according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.