Under the future name KMAT Maschinen- und Service GmbH, sales and service activities in Austria and Hungary areto be significantly strengthened.

Dr. Michael Ruf, CEO of KraussMaffei: „The sale of KraussMaffei Austria is part of our strategic realignment.“

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kunststoffe.de

KraussMaffei Sells KraussMaffei Austria to Luger GmbH

KraussMaffei has appointed Jörg Bremer (44) as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the KraussMaffei Group and the Shanghai-listed KraussMaffei Company Limited (KMCL), effective July 1, 2021.

As CFO of KraussMaffei Jörg Bremer wants to drive digitalization, standardization and growth

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KraussMaffei Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Shipments of primary plastics machinery in North America increased in the third quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by the Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES).

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Plastics Machinery Shipments Grew in Third Quarter

For the production of plastic components for an automotive air suspension system, LKH Kunststoffwerk Heiligenroth GmbH & Co. KG uses two flexible systems from the injection molding machines manufacturer Arburg. These produce up to six part variants and, thanks to an integrated laser station, each part is traceable via an individual data matrix code (DM code).

The gripper of the six-axis robot first removes the finished parts from one of the mold halves. It then places the pre-heated inserts into the opposite mold half

LKH Produces Fully Automated Traceable Part Variants for the Automotive Industry

Automatisierungszellen

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Laserbeschriftung

Oberflächentechnik

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Industrieroboter

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Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Light Suspension

Several thousand customers, partners and interested parties from 90 countries took part in the first virtual trade fair and online conference from Engel.

The first live e-xperience by Engel was a huge success. Dr. Christoph Steger (r.), accompanied by moderator Mari Lang, opened the accompanying online conference on the first day of the fair, for which Engel had set up two streaming studios

Virtual Show with Several Thousand Participants

First Edition of the Engel live e-xperience

Pascal Laborde has been in charge of the French Arburg subsidiary in Aulnay-sous-Bois since 1 November 2020. His main objectives are to further develop the successful business in France and to continue to advance the excellent reputation Arburg enjoys as a machine builder and partner for the plastics processing industry.

Pascal Laborde has been in charge of the Arburg subsidiary in France since 1 November 2020.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

New Managing Director for Arburg France

Arburg is cancelling the Technology Days event it was planning to hold between 7 and 12 June 2021, the impact of the global coronavirus epidemic still beeing too prevalent.

Arburg Cancels its 2021 Technology Days

The fifth broadcast by arburgXvision was all about the exciting question of how productivity can be optimized by bringing together technology, organization and digitalization in the ideal manner.

Christoph Kiefer, Team Manager Technical & Commercial Sales Support (left), and Dr Thomas Walther, Head of Application & Process Development (center), had a discussion with presenter Guido Marschall on how to increase production efficiency by taking advantage of “hidden benefits“

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5. arburgXvision: „Savings through Hidden Benefits!“

iQ motion control from Engel now allows reliable early start combined with fully automatically optimized motion planning. The assistance system has been part of the standard kit of all new Engel viper-type linear robots since October 2021.

If the robot travels into the mold area already during the mold opening movement, this can shorten the cycle time. The effect is particularly large in the case of parts with long cores, such as boxes

iQ Motion Control Brings the Injection-Molding Machine and Robot Closer together

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

A Production Cell with Fluid Movements

The ninth broadcast by arburgXvision was about strategies for significantly increasing the utilization rate of injection molding machines.

Moderator Guido Marschall and Arburg experts Christian Homp and Christoph Blöchle (from right) discussed how the right mold strategy pays off for injection molding companies

“Mold Strategy 2.0 – New Ideas for Reducing Costs”

The Bavarian machine manufacturer LWB Steinl, with the multicell, is presenting an unusual method for processing polymer molding compounds.

In the Multicell, the cycle steps are split up between multiple stations.

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Cycle Separated into Individual Processes

Insights into Production, Sales Expectations, and Future Strategies

The Kunststoffe team received a warm welcome at four Wittmann Group locations. Here you see Christian Glück, Product Management and Training, in conversation with Jeanette Rober from Kunststoffe.

Strategie und Organisation

Schröder, Susanne

Materialhandling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

On Site at Wittmann

Coextrusion: How a new automation system speeds up start-up and product changes in flat film and sheet extrusion.

A clever solution: two motorized screwdrivers travel along the die, automatically adjusting all the set screws.

Automatisierungskomponenten

Flachfolien- und Plattenextrusion

Extrusion

Extrusionswerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Desired Film at the Push of a Button

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

Big Data für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Energiemanagement

Energieeffizienz

Completely Joined to the Host Computer System

In cars, LEDs are taking over ever more applications and are increasingly used as differentiating design elements. In order to ensure a high luminous efficiency even with complex geometries and elongated structures, Engel has developed a new plasticizing process for manufacturing light guides.

The transformation of the automobile also strongly affects the vehicle interior. Light is gaining in importance as a design element

The Principle of Starve Feeding: Injection Molding Ultrahigh Purity Light Guides

Farbmessgeräte

Messtechnik

Optische Mess- und Prüftechnik

LED / OLED-Systeme und Faseroptik

Lichttechnik

Schnecken und Plastifiziersysteme

Less Granules  Stock Means More Quality

Global „Adjustment and Efficiency Program“ Launched

KraussMaffei Goes on a Tough Austerity Course

The engineering group is responding to an increasingly difficult market with a global adjustment and efficiency program including job cuts.

The Munich-based mechanical engineering group responds to an increasingly challenging market environment with a worldwide adjustment and efficiency program, also including the reduction of several hundred positions in the non-production areas. There are currently no plans to cut jobs in manufacturing and assembly. Details will be negotiated with the Works Council during the next weeks.

Three months after the announced <a href="https://en.kunststoffe.de/a/news/li-yong-becomes-new-ceo-3184855" target="_blank">departure of the previous CEO Dr. Michael Ruf</a>, KraussMaffei lets the cat out of the bag: The crisis-ridden plastics machinery manufacturer plans to cut several hundred jobs in order to return to profitability. In a press release, Li Yong, Ruf‘s successor as Chief Executive Officer of the KraussMaffei Group, is quoted as saying: “In the light of internal and external challenges, taking actions to enable us to be more competitive is important to restore profitability at KraussMaffei. Therefore various measures have been initiated to improve operational performance, to increase work efficiency and to reduce the cost base, including job reductions. We are confident that KraussMaffei will get back on the road to success.”

Joerg Bremer, Chief Financial Officer and responsible for Human Resources at KraussMaffei, says: „We are aware of our responsibility to work out socially acceptable solutions for employees affected by the planned cutbacks. At the same time, we are keen to offer attractive and future-proof jobs to those employees who stay with us.“

<a href="https://en.kunststoffe.de/a/news/start-for-new-group-headquarters-3198908" target="_blank">KraussMaffei relocated its headquarters and main plant</a> from Munich-Allach to Parsdorf only a few weeks ago. With 250,000 square meters, the new location is now home to its production for injection molding and reaction processing, <a href="https://en.kunststoffe.de/a/interview/everything-is-aimed-at-series-production-3422156" target="_blank">additive manufacturing</a>, mechanical manufacturing and automation.

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board Zhang Chi says: „I have great confidence in the future of KraussMaffei. With our substantial longterm investments into the new plants in Parsdorf and Laatzen, KraussMaffei has modernized its production facilities from the ground up. In a next step, we are now adjusting our cost base. We are convinced that the company has thus laid the foundations for the turnaround and the return to growth.“

Just a few months ago, KraussMaffei has successfully restructured its external corporate financing. As a result, the financing conditions were significantly improved. According to the Group, this is also intended to support the planned adjustment and efficiency program and consolidate the company‘s long-term development in an overall difficult market environment.

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The Munich-based engineering company‘s adjustment and efficiency program also includes job cuts in the non-production area.

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