After a year’s forced break of Fakuma, Wittmann Battenfeld is announcing the new servohydraulic SmartPlus machine as the highlight of this year’s trade show. It is claimed to be characterized by high economic and energy efficiency and repeat accuracy.

The new SmartPlus machine is equipped with the HiQ Flow software and the CMS Light condition monitoring system

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Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Schaumspritzgießen

Mikrospritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Spritzgießmaschinen

Messe Fakuma

kunststoffe-international.com

Spritzprägen

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Injection Molding Innovations In-House, Live and in Color

Paul Caprio has left Engel North America effective January 31st, 2022. Now the company presents the new management board.

Engel North America Management Board (left to right): Johann Dastl (CFO), Vanessa Malena (COO), Benjamin Lettner (CSO), Mark Sankovitch (CEO).

New Management Board at Engel North America

From 25 to 28 January, the OOO Engel team presents its booth in Moscow again. The injection molding machine manufacturer and system solution provider headquartered in Austria is making the huge potential of digital solutions tangible by producing technical parts live on a tie-bar-less victory injection molding machine.

Engel victory injection molding machines with tie-bar-less clamping units.

The Benefits of Tie-Bar-Less Technology

Arburg will be showing the hybrid high-performance Hidrive series on its stand no. 21B25 in Hall 2, with an Allrounder 520 H producing 32 pipette tips in around 6 s cycle time.

The hybrid Allrounder 520 H on show at Interplastica is equipped with a 32-cavity mold and produces pipette tips in a cycle time of around 6 s.

High-Tech for Medical Technology

Emilio López has been appointed as the new managing director of Engel de Mexico SA de CV. He succeeds Peter Auinger, who retired on 1st September 2021.

Emilio López is the new managing director of Engel de Mexico SA de CV

New Managing Director in Mexico

Xiaojun Cui, CEO of KraussMaffei China, will take over the global management of the NM Division, Business, on July 1, 2022.

Xiaojun Cui: New Head of KraussMaffei’s New Machines Busines.

16:9

Realignment of the New Machines Division

iQ process observer, the new process monitoring platform from Engel monitors hundreds of parameters from the injection molding cell in the background.

The injection molder is truly not a friend of changes – if they occur in the running process. The iQ process observer helps him to keep an eye on the process and thus keep a handle on the quality

A Process Monitoring Platform Monitors Several Hundred Parameters Simultaneously

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IoT-Plattformen für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

An Eye on the Process –  a Handle on Quality

Once again, the K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, lived up to its claim to be the leading trade show for plastics technology. At least in the field of injection molding, there were exciting global innovations to see – if you looked closely.

Fig. 1. Smart Operation – the machine is operated with only four buttons (© KraussMaffei)

Injection Molding Trends at K 2019

Smart Factory

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Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

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Montage-Spritzgießen

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Technical Excellence thanks  to Digital Assistance

A year to forget is nearing its completion. To brighten up this dreary fall season without a major event like Fakuma, injection molding machine builders have concocted various strategies.

Fig. 1. Ingrinder system solution: the sprue picker guides the removed sprue via vacuum conveyance to the integrated granulator

Injection Molding Machine Builders Are Discovering New Ways to Reach Their Customers

Vernetzung / Cloudlösung für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

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Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Nachhaltigkeit

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Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

What Can You Do at Fall Fairtime,  When There Aren’t Any?

Munich-based mechanical engineering group KraussMaffei is repositioning itself and uniting all divisions under a single brand. At a time of accelerated technological change, the company is increasing its efforts to develop new products for digital solutions and new business models – and that includes plastics recycling.

Everything remains different: Dr. Frank Stieler, CEO of KraussMaffei

KraussMaffei Consolidates Three Divisions and the Previous Group Brands under a Single Brand

Extrusion

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Kunststoff-Recycling

Compoundieren

Moving with the Times

Injection molding machine manufacturer Engel Austria has acquired the majority interest in TMA Automation in Gdynia, Poland. This strategic investment sees Engel reinforce its leading position in the field of injection molding process automation.

From left: Piotr Orlikowski and Marek Łangowski, founders and managing directors of TMA Automation, Stefan Engleder, CEO of the Engel Group, and Walter Aumayr, who as Vice President Automation and Peripheral Units of the Engel Group complements the managing director team of TMA Automation.

Unternehmen

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 TMA Automation to Become a Member of the Engel Group

On 1 August 2022, Stalinjose Selvanayagam has taken up his position as Managing Director of the sales and service subsidiary of Engel in Mumbai.

Stalinjose Selvanayagam heads Engel‘s sales and service subsidiary in Mumbai as managing director.

Personalmanagement

Stalinjose Selvanayagam is New Managing Director

For the first time, Engel‘s traditional in-house exhibition will be a virtual event, enabling even more customers, partners and interested parties from all regions of the world to join in.

The virtual, interactive platform gives all customers, partners and interested parties worldwide a safe, and at the same time efficient, option for taking part in the Engel live e-symposium 2021

Seminare, Schulungen, Kongresse

Dienstleistungen

Engel Takes Symposium to its Customers

Gindumac and Maptec join forces to enable an easy and professional access for Middle Eastern companies to the global market of used machine tools, sheet metal and plastics processing machinery.

The management team at SteelFab 2022 in Dubai, UAE. From left to right: Benedikt Ruf (Managing Director Gindumac), Jafar Odeh (CEO Maptec), Janek Andre (CEO Gindumac).

Gebrauchtmaschinenhandel

Dienstleistungen in der Metallbearbeitung

Gindumac and Maptec Start Cooperation for the Middle East Region

In the second part of the series, calculations were carried out on the throughput behaviour, pressure build-up capacity and the melting process on the basis of an exemplary geometry. These results are now to be examined in more detail and subsequently optimized.

Through empirical tests and simulation-supported test series, a screw can be designed in a tailor-made manner for the respective application 

Part 3 of the Series Deals with the Tests to Optimize the Screw Geometry

Schnecken und Plastifiziersysteme

All about Plasticizing Screws

New Vice President of Asia-Pacific Region

The new head of the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Greater China) will be responsible for sales, service and project management.

Bharat Sharma is new Head of Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore, from January 1, 2021. In this role, he will be responsible for both the New Machine Business and Digital & Service Solutions. Sharma will report to Nadine Despineux, Executive Vice President of the Digital & Service Solutions division of the KraussMaffei Group.

In his role as head of the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Greater China), he will be responsible for sales, service and project management. The experienced manager will set up and expand the sales and service organization of KraussMaffei. This includes managing the country organizations and the external sales network.

„We are delighted to welcome Bharat Sharma to KraussMaffei. Bharat Sharma has many years of experience in the management of international sales organizations, in business development and in the conception and implementation of sales strategies. His technical expertise and management skills are excellent assets to benefit KraussMaffei,” explains Nadine Despineux.

Sharma joins KraussMaffei from Honeywell Process Solutions, where he was most recently senior business executive for APAC control systems and field devices. Prior to that, he held various management positions at Honeywell and at a number of international business organizations.

„I am delighted to be joining KraussMaffei in the Asia-Pacific region. Together with my team, I will be responsible for expanding KraussMaffei‘s market share and competitiveness. I am looking forward to serve our customers in the region with the best suitable solutions for their business,” Sharma explains his role.

KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH 

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Bharat Sharma is new Head of Asia-Pacific for KraussMaffei and in this position responsible for the News Machine Business and Digital & Service Solution

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