 Brenda Chamulak will become company president and CEO effective June 30 as part of a planned leadership transition.

Brenda Chamulak will become Tekni-Plex‘spresident and CEO effective June 30 as part of a planned leadership transition

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Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Verpackungstechnik

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Kunststoffverarbeitung

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Sondermaschinen

Tekni-Plex Names New President and CEO

The consumables required for In-vitro diagnostics are manufactured in a production process that is subject to high requirements in terms of precision and quality, but also the complex cleanroom manufacturing environment. This has implications for the entire plant technology – especially toolmaking.

64-cavity tool for pipette tips. The hot runner system is balanced across all cavities

Strategic Approach through Classification according to Product Groups

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Medizinprodukte

Medizintechnik

Mold Platforms for IVD Consumables

SPS – Industrial Automation Fair (SIAF) Guangzhou and Asiamold, the first China fairs to be hosted by Messe Frankfurt in 2021, concluded on 5 March after three days, with the visit number increasing an impressive 27% to 63,968.

Sensorik für Werkzeugmaschinen

Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 für die spanende Fertigung

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

SIAF Guangzhou and Asiamold Conclude Successfully

The ZKW Group manufactures premium lighting systems for automotive customers. In order to be able to produce trouble-free and in permanently high quality in the injection molding process, several hundred temperature control units from HB-Therm are also used, among others.

ZKW manufactures both complete lighting systems and the necessary components, such as diffusers and lenses or the associated electronics

The ZKW Group Manufactures Innovative Lighting Systems for the Automotive Industry

Temperiergeräte

Gießanlagen

Temperiertechnik

Kfz-Leuchten, Beleuchtung

Elektronik

Kfz-Systeme

KFZ-Zulieferer

Where Night Becomes Day

When no injection molder could be found who could process the company‘s own electroluminescent foils to a high standard in series production, the Swiss lighting technology specialist Lumitec, with the help of its machine supplier Arburg, took over the injection compression molding technology virtually „overnight“.

The panels are installed in sports car seats and glow as a welcome when the car door is opened. The assembly elements are subsequently ultrasonically welded to the component

Lumitec Masters Injection-Compression Molding thanks to Arburg Application Technology

Folientechnik (IMD, IML, FIM, u.a.)

Spritzprägen

A Luminous Greeting

The design of parts and components made of fiber-reinforced composites needs to take the coefficient of thermal expansion into account because it determines the extent to which a material changes in length when heated or cooled. Neglecting this quality criterion can have far-reaching consequences

Thermomechanical analyzer TMA 402 F3 Hyperion Polymer Edition

The Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Can Help to Ensure Product Quality

Messtechnik

Prüfen von Kunststoffen

Thermische Mess- und Prüfverfahren

Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

A Change of Length Has Consequences

Lightweight parts, energy-saving processing or the practice of combining several process steps into one can all be subsumed under one current buzzword: sustainability. A technology that is highly promising in this regard is thermoplastic foam injection molding.

In physical foam injection molding, a blowing gas is injected into the polymer melt during plasticizing

New Developments in Thermoplastic Foam Injection Molding

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Künstliche Intelligenz für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Schnecken und Plastifiziersysteme

Spritzgießmaschinen

A Special Process that Is Becoming a Sustainable Normal Case

Pipette tips feature a challenging wall thickness/length ratio, an inner geometry that is key for analysis results, and a tip opening just a few tenths of a millimeter wide. They have been in extremely high demand during the coronavirus pandemic, which is why the mold construction and hot runner specialist Männer has developed a mold with an innovative cluster concept.

At the Männer test center in Bahlingen, Germany: an injection mold for manufacturing pipette tips, shown here in operation. Automation of the system is currently being set up

Pipette Tips: Männer Presents a Mold with Replaceable Clusters

Heißkanalsysteme

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Maintenance During (Nearly)  Uninterrupted Production

Space-saving machine concepts for demanding production environments are booming. A real-life example of a slit micro-membrane for pharmaceutical glass vials shows how intelligent machine functions make an important contribution to supporting machine operators and continuous documentation of the production process.

Injection molding and slitting of an LSR membrane for a glass-vial closure for pharmaceutical products make high demands on precision

KraussMaffei Delivers a Customized Solution for LSR Processing

Automatisierungszellen

Automatisierungstechnik

Mikrospritzgießen

Silikonkautschuk

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Kautschuk / Elastomere

Transparency in Production

RKT has been manufacturing plastic products for medical and industrial technology for 45 years. Discs for the rapid analysis of multi-resistant hospital germs are a lighthouse project within the sophisticated product portfolio.

 A six-axis robot picks the molded parts out of the mold under an inert gas atmosphere and conveys them into the cleanroom for further processing and packaging

High-Tech Production of Life-Saving Disks for Fast Analysis of Dangerous Germs

Reinraumsysteme / -technik

An All-Round Winner

Closing the circle: a tool manufacturer with a long track record in injection molding is taking particle foam processing to the next level. A new machine and highly efficient molds are intended to streamline the technology and make it interesting even for injection molders.

Managing Director Stefan Hofmann (left) and Project Manager Johannes Schütz in front of the prototype of the new “<a href="http://Bead.Machin">Bead.Machin</a>e”, the development of which started a good two years ago © Hofmann

On the Launch of a Molding Machine for Particle Foams

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Innovationsentwicklung

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Partikelschäumen

Schäumen / Reaktive Verarbeitung

The Impulse Machine

In the injection molding of engineering plastics, mold temperature control consumes more than one third of the total energy input. A novel technology offers the opportunity to reduce this continuous major cost factor – and eliminate hotspots.

Fig. 1. The temperature control units have the highest energy share in the injection molding process

Source: M. Schläger et al [2]; graphic: © Hanser

Reduced Energy Consumption and Shorter Cycle Times due to Structurally Integrated  Heat Pipe Mold Cores

Cooling with Heat Pipes

Thermoplastic foam injection molding enables lower melt viscosity due to the addition of blowing agent, which is also attractive for the production of thin-walled packaging. Since injection molded packaging is often decorated through in-mold-labeling, it is important to understand how the blowing agent affects adhesion between the film and the molded part to avoid bubble formation at the interface.

Selecting the right IML film is critical for visually appealing molded parts

How Does the Addition of Blowing Agent Affect Adhesion and Molded Part Properties?

Properly Foamed with IML

The new injection-molding machine Engel duo speed combines productivity and efficiency with short cycle times in a high clamping force range. The two-platen machine is thus making inroads into a range of packaging applications that were formerly the domain of toggle machines.

If you want a somewhat larger sized pail: the duo speed large machine was developed specifically for manufacturing pails and transport boxes

Engel Duo Speed Expands the Machine Portfolio for Packaging Applications

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High-Speed Machine with a  Small Footprint

The resource-economical determination of an optimized operating point in injection molding is still a challenge. Machine learning offers great potential for re-using knowledge from a flow simulation that has already been generated.

Significant reduction of the effort for determining the optimum operating point by machine learning

Machine Learning: Combining Simulation and Experimental Test Data

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

DOE-Software

Qualitätsmethoden

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Digitaler Zwilling

Quicker Evaluation of the Optimum Operating Point

Frank Schuster, Regional President Metai, takes over the management of Engel Machinery India. Stalinjose Selvanayagam is the new Sales Director.

1 July 2021 will see Engel complete the generation change in the management of its sales and service subsidiary in Mumbai. Frank Schuster, Regional President Metai, takes over the management of Engel Machinery India Pvt. Ltd. Stalinjose Selvanayagam is the new Sales Director. Jitendra Devlia, the previous managing director and sales manager, is retiring.

“The introduction of this management duo is our response to the significance of the growing Indian market. We are simplifying communication with headquarters for our customers in India, and this in turn will speed up project planning for customized system solutions,” says Dr. Christoph Steger, CSO of the Engel Group. Frank Schuster will remain at the headquarters in Schwertberg, Austria, while Stalinjose Selvanayagam will move from Austria back to his home country for his new responsibilities. “We are pleased to have gained a highly experienced injection molding expert for this strategically important position, in the form of Stalinjose Selvanayagam who is at home in both European and Indian culture.”

Stalinjose Selvanayagam first studied electrical engineering in India and later global sales and marketing in Austria, before joining Engel Machinery India in 2005 as a service engineer. Most recently, he was a project manager in the Packaging business unit at Engel in Austria where he looked after key accounts.

Frank Schuster brings a total of 25 years of experience in the plastics industry to the table. He joined Engel in 2016 and was Vice President Packaging before being appointed Regional President of the Metai (Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India) region in spring 2020.

Jitendra Devlia took over as Managing Director of Engel’s Indian subsidiary in 2009. He also previously lived in Europe for many years.

The Austrian company has been engaged in India since 1998. The subsidiary has 21 employees today.

Frank Schuster, Regional President Metai, is the new Managing Director of Engel Machinery India

Stalinjose Selvanayagam is moving from Engel’s headquarters as Sales Director to the Indian subsidiary

2021-07-01 Engel India

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