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  

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Blasfolienextrusion

Faserverarbeitung

Spritzgießen

Extrusion

Lehrstühle und Institute

Call for papers for a symposium for lateral thinkers  

Together with its international customers, Regloplas AG of St. Gallen, Switzerland, works out complete solutions that can be easily integrated into the processes of a future Smart Factory. That is why the Swiss manufacturer’s latest generation of temperature control units communicates via OPC UA with superior IT systems (PPS, MES, ERP) in industrial production – across locations, e.g., via Cloud, if required. Theses devices also can be networked with injection molding and other plastics machines via the IOD UA communication protocol. This fulfills all prerequisites for continuous data exchange in highly automated, digitalized plastics processing. 

Temperature Control Units Networked via Dashboard  

Temperieren

Betriebstechnik für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Peripherie)

Temperiertechnik

Central Visualization of Process Data 

Hot-runner manufacturer Incoe International Europe, Rödermark, Germany, is introducing its new Hot Halves (type: SealFit) to the European market. A Hot Half comprises a complete, ready-to-go system with SealFIt hot runner nozzles. 

SealFit Hot Halves 

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Heißkanaltechnik

Efficiency for Mold Makers and Injection Molders 

Friday, 6 March 2020 marked the opening ceremony of Arburg¿s new Training Center measuring 13,700 square metres at the company¿s headquarters in Lossburg.  

More Space, More Digitalisation, More Focus On Customers 

Automatisierungstechnik

Additive Fertigung

Spritzgießmaschinen

New Arburg Training Center 

KB Components acquires Placell AB in Gislaved, Sweden and will integrate the operations in its European Injection Molding business. After completion of the acquisition the company will be renamed to KB Components Placell AB.  

Integration to the European Injection Molding Business 

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

KB Components Acquires Placell AB 

Engel Austria GmbH, Schwertberg, Austria, presents the next generation of the all-electric e-cap injection molding machine series for beverage caps. The production of 29/25 lightweight caps on a new e-cap 380 machine makes it clear how continuously increasing requirements can be combined with the shortest cycle times, the highest precision and lowest energy consumption. 

Engel Presents the Next Generation e-cap 

Kunststoff-Verpackungsmaschine

High Stability and Precision  

Wittmann Battenfeld USA is providing essential machinery and equipment to battle the pandemic. 

The Company has been Deemed an Essential Business by the State of Connecticut 

Wittmann Battenfeld USA Open for Business During COVID-19 Crisis 

With the Corona pandemic sweeping the world, considerable energies are being freed up and focused on developing and manufacturing urgently required medical equipment. Working under extreme time pressure, the OKE Group GmbH, based in Hörstel, Germany, has developed a concept for a full-face mask that can be quickly implemented and, according to the manufacturer, offers reliable basic protection. 

Implementing a Face Mask Concept in Record Time 

Medizintechnik

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Small Injection Moldings for Protection against Corona 

Additional to the production of protective glasses, Arburg has now launched a further project against the spread of the corona virus and produces reusable face masks. 

High-quality Face Mask Made of LSR 

Silikone

Arburg Manufactures High-tech Masks 

Trexel is pleased to announce that Patrick Tong has rejoined the company as Managing Director for Trexel Asia.   

Patrick Tong Rejoined the Company 

Gasinjektionstechnik

New Managing Director for Trexel Asia 

An electric valve gate cylinder, which moves the valve pin directly, and in so doing sits on the manifold, is as compact and easy to maintain as conventional hydraulic cylinders, which would represent combining the best of both worlds. So does this work? 

Introduction of New Electric Valve Gate Cylinder 

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Compact User-Friendly Electric Valve Direct Drive 

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

First Moldex3D Authorized Certification Center in Central Europe 

Near-mold-contour distribution systems provide temperature control for large injection molds with a number of heating-cooling channels. This setup makes it possible to arrange circuits in parallel and at the same time reduce the number of cooling-heating units. 

Automated Temperature Control and Surveillance in a Distribution System 

The multiFlow System for Parallel Circulation  

KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH, Munich, Germany, is concentrating on the topic of digitalization. Its focus is on the question of how production that has grown organically, with older legacy machinery from different manufacturers, can be integrated into a networked manufacturing environment. A digital retrofit allows older machines to be upgraded. Depending on the available IT structure, they can thereby save process data via a gateway PC in the cloud or close to the network by means of an edge PC. 

KraussMaffei at K 2019 

Product Family Completely United  

With its products of the activeGate family, Synventive Molding Solutions GmbH, Bensheim, Germany, offers a range of control technologies in the hot runner, which, using sensor data, permit individual monitoring of the melt flow at the melt entry point of every gate in the mold. A new feature is the latest enhancement of the eGate. The electrically operated valve-gating system is now also available for large parts with high shot weights. The system permits monitoring of the valve movement at every individual hot-runner nozzle and, with a large number of setting parameters, offers possibilities for part optimization, particularly in sequential injection molding and with family molds. 

Synventive at K 2019 

Individually Controlled Melt Flow 

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 GmbH  

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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