CoreTech System Co. Ltd., the leading provider of engineering simulation solutions for the plastics industry, has named S&T Consulting Hungary Kft. (S&T) as its first Moldex3D Authorized Certification Center (MACC) in Central Europe.  

CoreTech System Co. Ltd. Named S&T Consulting in Hungary  

Spritzgießsimulation

Prozesssimulation

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

First Moldex3D Authorized Certification Center in Central Europe 

Evonik has become the first company in the world to develop a polymer filament based on PEEK (polyether ether ketone) in implant-grade quality for use as a 3D printing material for implants. This high-performance material can be used in fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology and is expected to enable additive production of three-dimensional plastic parts for medical implants in the human body. 

Evonik Develops PEEK Filament for Medical Use 

Additive Fertigung

Medizintechnik

Kunststoffhandel

3D Printing Filament in Implant-Grade Quality  

Luciano Anceschi, also known as President of Euromap, has found a new managing director for his family's company. 

The Company Develops Its Leadership with this Appointment 

Spritzgießen

Extrusion

Blasformen

Stefano Venturelli New Tria CEO as of April 1 

Japanese technology group Asahi Kasei expands its manufacturing infrastructure for lithium-ion battery separators by 450 million sqm to 1.55 billion sqm / year. The group is reacting to the booming demand on the battery market worldwide and the growing needs of customers. 

Rising Demand for Lithium-Ion Battery Separators 

Energiemanagement / Ladetechnik

Asahi Kasei Invests 238 Million Euros in Manufacturing Infrastructure 

Electromobility, whether based on batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, permits zero-emission driving and the integration of the transport sector into an overall concept with a high share of renewable energy. Fuel cell technology will play a key role here, not only because of its long-range capability. However, the deciding factor will be the use of high-quality, but also cost-effective, materials and production processes to offer reliable, affordable products. This will place demands on plastics technology, in particular. 

Electromobility Arguments in Favor of a Future with Hydrogen 

Brennstoffzelle

Elektromobilität

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Kohlenstofffasern / -matten

Plastics in Fuel Cells 

A gap exists between growth in equipment sales and numbers of manufactured parts. Most likely, a lot of experimentation is still going on. A symposium provided insights into projects, problems and prospects for additive manufacturing. 

Additive Manufacturing ¿ Between Growth Euphoria and a Sense of Reality 

Fluorkunststoffe

Putting 3D Printing to the Test 

In order to qualify new materials for different 3D printing technologies, the company offers manufacturers of 3D printers and system providers an open materials platform. 

Henkel Wants to Qualify New Materials 

Open Materials Platform for 3D Printing 

Ford has selected desktop 3D printers to create various assembly tools, and can now produce jigs and fixtures, and even in highly complex designs, in-house at low cost. Ultimaker¿s open filament system enables the automaker to create parts with various filaments from a range of material manufacturers and meet specific material properties exactly. 

Ford Uses Additive Manufacturing with FDM Technology for Producing Assembly Tools in its Automotive Production 

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Printed Tools for High-Volume Production  

Arburg expands further into Southeast Asia. On 17 May 2019, Andrea Carta, Arburg Director of Overseas Sales, together with Ratree Boonsay, Managing Director Arburg Thailand and Dr. Alexander Raubold, Counsellor Economic and Commercial Affairs of the German embassy in Bangkok, officially opened the new subsidiary building in Samutprakarn, one of Thailand's leading industrial regions. 

Largest Arburg Showroom in Southeast Asia 

Spritzgießmaschinen

Arburg Expansion in Thailand 

Dow and Menshen present a new transformative Reverse Spout Sealing Technology that enables the production of spouted pouches made of mono-material films. This technology allows converters to address the recycling criteria for flexible packaging and can help brands meet their sustainability packaging goals.  

Reversing the Traditional Sealing Process Brought the Solution 

Kunststoff-Recycling

Klebstoffe

Dow and Menshen bring Sustainable Design to Spouted Pouches 

The Institute for Plastics Processing in Aachen is drumming up support for an innovative event that will demonstrate diversity and present the unexpected. Even the event's initiator, Prof. Hopmann, is keyed up and can't wait to see what will be presented there ¿ as he divulged to us in an interview.  

IKV premiere will throw light on the fundamentals of plastics technology  

Blasfolienextrusion

Faserverarbeitung

Lehrstühle und Institute

Call for papers for a symposium for lateral thinkers  

Together with around 100 guests and partners from Europe, Asia and North America BBG celebrated its the 20th anniversary in mid-May. At the event that was organized at the company's headquarters in Mindelheim in the Unterallgäu region the specialist for the plastics processing industry presented a large number of new products.  

Anniversary with Product Premieres 

PUR-Werkzeuge

Werkzeugreinigung, Kunststoffe

Schäumen / Reaktive Verarbeitung

PUR-Schäummaschinen

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

20 Years BBG  

BASF has announced the following changes in its management team. 

New Managers in Various Business Areas 

Polyurethan

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Personnel Changes at BASF  

"Our Focus on your future" - this is the motto under which Brabender GmbH & Co. KG and Brabender Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG will showcase their products and services at the K 2019. The two Duisburg companies are setting the course for the future with their solutions for quality testing and development of sustainable plastic products and formulations.  

Brabender and Brabender Messtechnik provide individual solutions for extrusion and rheology on a lab scale 

Messtechnik

Rheologie

Analysegeräte

A focus on the future of the plastics industry 

If the isolating properties of plastics and a the extent of their resistance to electrical current are important to know, then the Hiresta-UX measuring device by Mitsubishi Chemical Analytech can help. As guaranteed by their sales partner N&H Technology GmbH, Willich, the system can quickly and exactly determine both the surface and the volumetric resistance of semi- and non-conductors in the high-resistance range from 1000 to 10 14 Ω*cm.

Measured via Surface and Volume in 29 Steps 

Widerstandsmessgeräte

Determining the Electrical Resistance of Plastics 

New Multi-Layered Lenses for LED Headlights 

In project Optisys, Simcon collaborated with world-leading automotive industry suppliers to develop multi-layered glass-free lenses for LED headlights. 

An increasing share of of luxury segment and midsize cars use LED headlights. Because LEDs generate less heat than classic incandescent bulbs, this has created an opportunity to replace glass elements in the lenses with lighter and less expensive lenses made of translucent plastic, which meet the same optical requirements as their glass counterparts. In project Optisys, Simcon, a technology leader in injection moulding simulation, collaborated with world-leading automotive industry suppliers to develop multi-layered glass-free lenses for LED headlights. 

Micro-structures on the surface of the lens 

The key development objectives of project Optisys were to use microstructures to improve the scattering of light, while reducing the volume and size of lenses, using the principles of Fresnel lenses. These microstructures are generated on the surface of the part during the injection molding process, using geometries that are engraved directly into the mold. Simcon developed the capability to model these structures specifically for project Optisys. Going forward, Simcon is now offering this kind of simulation as a service. This functionality is also being integrated into Simcon’s injection moulding simulation solution CADMOULD. 

High optical quality of the lenses through multi-step injection molding process 

The high optical quality of the lenses is achieved using a multi-layered structure comprised of different materials, such as PMMA and PMMI. To optimize the design of this thick, multilayered free-form lens, Simcon deployed the optimization solution Varimos, which is fully integrated with CADMOULD. It harnesses the speed and accuracy of CADMOULD’s simulation engine to rapidly explore different combinations of parameters in an automated fashion, and then mathematically optimize part geometry and production parameters. “In this way, the artificial intelligence integrated in Varimos automatically explores and learns the impact of different parameters like thickness of layers, gate locations, injection temperatures. And then it computes the optimal solution, based on what it has learned.”, explains Max Mades, project manager at Simcon. 

In project Optisys, Simcon collaborated closely with several partners including Hella GmbH & Co. KgaA, a world-leading supplier of headlights and lighting systems, KrausMaffei Group GmbH, a global producer of machinery for the production and processing of plastics, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Mechanics IWM. The project was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 

simcon kunststofftechnische Software GmbH  

https://www.simcon.com

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Temperatures inside the multi-layered structure, during the filling oft he third component (intersectional view), Project Optisys (© Simcon) 

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