The Wilhelm Böllhoff GmbH & Co. KG employs Arburg’s ALS host computer system as a uniform MES at locations all over the world. Not only all their injection molding machines are networked with information technology via ALS, but hundreds of machines and turnkey systems for metalworking and assembly, as well. Some 3000 injection molds are also managed. This generates transparency in everything from order planning and process optimization to maintenance.

The process status of every machine can be viewed via the ALS terminal

Böllhoff Uses ALS as a Uniform Global MES for Injection Molding and Metalworking

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Spritzgießmaschinen

Big Data für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Energiemanagement

Energieeffizienz

Completely Joined to the Host Computer System

Reducing energy costs is crucial to competitiveness for many plastics processors. Fried uses an energy management system from Econ for this purpose.

The load curves make anomalous consumption patterns immediately visible.

16:9

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Dienstleistungen

Lohnfertigung

Energy Consumption Reduced, Processes Optimized

PP is a material with good future perspectives. It is attractive as it combines several different properties. It is economical, covers a wide application area – and can be readily recycled.

The “Monobloc” from PP, here in a green version, is one of the most affordable and versatile seating furnitures worldwide (photo from the movie “Monobloc” by Edition Salzgeber).

Wachstum trotz Krise: Wieso Polypropylen (PP) ein Werkstoff mit guten Zukunftsperspektiven ist.

Polypropylene (PP): Growth despite Crisis

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

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Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Technische Kunststoffe

Thermoplaste

Polypropylen

Kennzahlen

Qualitätsmanagement

The Future of Polypropylene Lies  in the Circular Economy

Textile structures can be equipped with shape-changing properties at all stages of their production. So-called 4D textiles are created.

4D materials are ideal for personalized medical technology such as orthoses.

Formverändernde Textilien, sogenannte 4D-Textilien, bieten beispielsweise für die Medizintechnik große Vorteile. Herstellen lassen sie sich mittels FDM-Druck.

From Static to Adaptive Products with 4D Textiles

Polylactid

Additive Fertigung

Into the Fourth Dimension  with 3D Printing

Ascend Performance Materials will focus on electromobility and sustainability at K. The company made this announcement at a press conference in advance of the trade show.

Elektromotoren

Antriebe

kunststoffe.de

Elektromobilität

Mobilität

Polyamide

Wide Range of PA Innovations

Plastics are increasingly replacing metals in thermal management. Traditional air-cooling of electronic components is disappearing due to the ongoing miniaturization of modules that contain a large number of high-energy-density components.

Thermal management is becoming increasingly important and complex in electronic modules. Plastics filled with mineral fillers are increasingly replacing metals.

Füllstoffe, mineralisch

Füllstoffe für Kunststoffe

Additive

Elektrisch leitende Füllstoffe (Metalllegierungen, Ruß, Graphit)

More than a Gap Filler

PADM Medical Group of Companies has received its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Precision Eco, reportedly the world’s first plant based, procedural mask with ear loops for use in healthcare and medical settings in the USA.

Improved product lifecyle and reduced environmental impact for Luminy PLA based face masks.

Polyester

Plant-Based Medical Grade Face Mask

Neste, Bugaboo, DSM Engineering Materials, and Fibrant partner to enable the first stroller portfolio made with bio-based materials

The majority of the Bugaboo Donkey strollers’ plastic parts are made using DSM Engineering Materials’ Akulon 100% bio-based B-MB polyamide 6, which in turn is made using bio-based feedstock from both Fibrant and Neste.

Kunststoffe, biobasiert

Biokunststoffe

Kunststoffe, bioabbaubar

Stroller Portfolio Made with Bio-Based Materials

Bio-Fed’s booth will be dedicated to the topic of bioplastics in all their facets, and will be run jointly with Akro-Plastic, AF-Color and parent company K. D. Feddersen.

Bio-Fed‘s K trade fair presentation is dedicated to the topic of bioplastics in all its facets.

Compound

Polyethylen

Organic – both Inside and Outside

Dr. Chuck Xu will begin his term on the Michelman Board of Directors in Q4 of 2022.

Dr. Chuck Xu: “I am honored and excited to join the Michelman Board. I look forward to working with a very experienced and diverse Board as well as the Executive Team to drive Michelman’s substantial growth trajectory.”

Dr. Chuck Xu Joins the Board of Directors

Swiss plastics trading group Meraxis is taking over French Fournier Plastics Group. Subject to antitrust reviews, the transaction is scheduled to close at the end of 2022.

Meraxis CEO Dr. Stefan Girschik and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Meraxis Jobst Wagner signed the acquisition agreement together with Stéphane Fournier and Bruno Fournier (from left to right).

Standardkunststoffe

Distributionslogistik

Logistik

Meraxis Buys French Plastics Distributor

In this position, she is responsible for driving the respective businesses globally in line with Borealis’ circular ambitions.

Britta Warnke, Vice President Mobility & Advanced Products © Borealis

Personen

Britta Warnke Becomes Vice President Mobility & Advanced Products

Dupont is adding new, more sustainable grades to the Hytrel TPC-ET product family. Hytrel Eco B is based proportionately on renewable raw materials.

Kautschuk / Elastomere

Thermoplastische Elastomere

TPC with up to 72 Percent Biomass Content

At the trade show, Chinese additives manufacturer UniteChem unveiled its expanded range of light stabilizers.

Stabilisatoren

Stabilizing Polyolefins

The increasing demand for recyclates and the shortage of food-grade PET flakes pose challenges for batch quality and color consistency.

Repi offers various additives for recycling PET, which can be used, for example, to prevent the material from darkening.

Recycling

Umweltmanagement

Polyethylenterephthalat

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Compensating for Darkening in Recycled PET

The materials manufacturer has set itself high targets for making production and products climate neutral.

Already in 2021, Covestro cut specific greenhouse gas emissions, those generated per metric ton of product produced, by 54 percent compared to 2005 and thus overachieved its previous sustainability target set for 2025. Covestro has now defined a further bold target: the Group aims to become climate neutral and achieve net zero emissions by 2035 for scope 1 and scope 2. On the path to achieving this goal, the company plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its own production (scope 1) and from external energy sources (scope 2) by 60 percent (base year 2020) to 2.2 million metric tons by 2030. In addition, indirect greenhouse gas emissions from upstream and downstream processes in the value chain (scope 3) will be further reduced. Covestro intents to announce a reduction target for this by 2023.

To achieve net zero emissions, Covestro anticipates dedicated investments of an accumulated EUR 250 million to EUR 600 million by 2030, resulting in lower operating expenses of expected EUR 50 million to 100 million annually due to growing energy efficiency. On its path to achieve net zero emissions, Covestro also expects an increase in operating expenses in the magnitude of a low three-digit million EUR amount annually. These cost assumptions are based on the historic experience that prices for fossil-based energies are lower than prices for renewable energies.

How Covestro Intends to Achieve its Goals

<ul><li> Production processes will be improved further and energy efficiency enhanced to achieve even more sustainable manufacturing. One focus is on reducing nitrous oxide emissions. That will be possible through greater use of innovative catalyst technology. In addition, production plants can be controlled more efficiently thanks to further digitalization of the facilities and the use of digital technologies, while processes can be optimized using digital simulations. Digital technologies also help collect and track emissions data throughout the value chain.</li><li>Covestro’s production sites worldwide are to be gradually converted to renewable electricity. That includes the use of offshore wind power, backed for example by a supply agreement with the energy provider Ørsted, which will cover 10 percent of the electricity required by the company’s sites in Germany from 2025 on. Onshore wind energy will also be used, for example under the power purchase agreement with Engie, that covers 45 percent of the electricity needs of the Covestro site in Antwerp, Belgium. About 10 percent of the electricity Covestro needs in Shanghai, China, already comes from the solar parks of Datang Wuzhong New Energy Co. In addition to the existing cooperation models with power suppliers, further agreements are being planned in order to achieve a net zero carbon footprint.</li><li>Steam is an important energy source for chemical production processes. Converting steam generation from fossil to renewable energy sources is a challenge that Covestro intends to solve by various routes. To this end, the company is looking into the use of biogas and green natural gas as an energy source to generate renewable steam. Green hydrogen and green ammonia or green electricity could also be used as energy source for steam generation.</li></ul>

A Climate Neutral Version for Every Product

Focused on customer centricity, Covestro is already expanding its portfolio of climate neutral products continuously. Urbanization, for example, increases the focus on constructing new energy-efficient buildings and renovating old ones. Large quantities of MDI are used worldwide as a raw material for making rigid polyurethane (PU) foam, a very effective insulation material for buildings and refrigerators. Now Covestro has added a climate neutral MDI to the product portfolio. 40 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent could be saved by using PU insulation. The new MDI types are climate neutral from the cradle to the gate thanks to the use of precursors from ISCC Plus-certified mass-balanced organic waste and residual materials.

Another groundbreaking example for sustainable products is Covestro’s world first climate neutral polycarbonate, made using raw materials from mass-balanced organic waste and residual materials as well as renewable energy. With the increasing trend of electromobility and the regulatory push for electric vehicles (EV), charging systems need to grow continuously, too. Using the climate neutral polycarbonate for EV charger could enable savings up to 450 kilotons CO2 equivalent by 2030. Covestro’s climate neutral polycarbonate is being shipped to customers since 2021.

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