 At KraussMaffei’s booth, automotive door modules are produced from former caps of insulin pens. The system supplier is presenting not only the machine hardware necessary for this but also new digital solutions.

Digital solutions are an essential component of the material loop from the insulin pen cap to the car door module.

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From the Insulin Pen Cap to the Automotive Door Module

At the introductory press conference for K 2022, Dr Thorsten Thümen, Senior Director Technology, outlined the company’s evolving strategic focus.

Senior Director for Technology Dr. Thorsten Thümen announces several premieres at K 2022.

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Elektrische Antriebe

New High-Speed Machine for the Packaging Market

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.

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Personalmanagement

Produktion

Stalinjose Selvanayagam is New Managing Director

Dr. Boy is picking up on the main themes of K 2022 with two trade show premieres and other specific applications. One of these themes, which Boy has espoused, is the digitalization or increasing networking of the plastics industry.

The diverse elements of the Boy digitalization package.

Hybridtechnik

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Automatisierungstechnik

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

New Control System before the Premiere

How the direct compounding opens up new potential to reduce CO2 footprint – also for smaller components thanks to a further development from KraussMaffei.

DCIM technology enables injection molding and compounding in a single heating process.

Efficiency Meets Sustainability: Systematically Reduce Costs and CO2 Emissions

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Cost-Effective Direct Compounding for Medium-Sized Components

At K 2022, Engel, with its partners Alpla Group, Brink and IPB Printing, is presenting a quantum leap for the packaging industry. Thin-wall containers can for the first time be produced from PET directly by injection molding in only one process step.

Fig. 1. The thin-walled containers are injection molded from rPET.

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Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Schmelzefilter

Polyethylenterephthalat

Thermoplaste

Processing rPET by Thin-Wall  Injection Molding

Netstal presents new solutions for high-performance injection molding in Düsseldorf.

aXos control unit with “Smart Operation:” the guided machine operation enables users to achieve additional productivity increases.

Fast, Precise and Networked

Under the motto “It‘s all Wittmann”, Wittmann Battenfeld is presenting its machines and systems in the new Wittmann design for the first time.

Automation cell with SmartPlus 90 for manufacturing a spirit level.

Schaumspritzgießen

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Biokunststoffe

Naturmaterialien

Verstärkungsstoffe

Green DC Current for the Injection Molding Machine

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.

Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Cycle Separated into Individual Processes

Three solutions for increasing the productivity in the automotive, medical and packaging industries are presented by Tederic at K 2022 with the Neo injection molding machine series. T

The Neo·Ec combines electrical and hydraulic drives.

Polylactid

Applications in Three Key Sectors

ZF Vigo is now taking compounding into its own hands – with the DCIM process from KraussMaffei.

From the left: Eduardo Casas (ZF, Injection Molding Specialist), Edgar Lopez (ZF, Manufacturing Engineer), Thomas Drogi (KraussMaffei, Process Engineer), Christian Seyferth (KraussMaffei, Global Expert Sales), Achim Härtel (ZF, Core Engineer Plastics), Jacob Seco (ZF, Manufacturing Engineer Specialist), Jose Trasobares (ZF, Manufacturing Engineering Manager), Angel Lemus (Coscollola, Director Post-Venta), Antonio Muñoz (Coscollola, Director Comercial Inyección), Ramazan Baser (Motan-Colortronic, Project Engineer)

Developing, Testing and Protecting Proprietary Formulations

This year, the world’s leading trade show K has succeeded in presenting practical solutions for greater resource efficiency on a broad front. A first foray through the trade show grounds.

K 2022 gave numerous practical examples showing visitors how recyclates can be reliably processed with digital aids.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions for Greater Resource Efficiency.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions at K 2022

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

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Temperiertechnik

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Instandhaltung

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Oberflächentechnik

Digitalisierung

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

It Can Be Done!

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag continues to expand all-electric platform and extends its high-speed IntElect S series.

IntElect S all-electric high-performance injection molding machine.

Short Cycles, High Material Throughput

How in-process or downstream injection molding improves the quality of high-volume 3D-printed parts.

The mobile injection molding „Robin“ can be used as a supplement to large-volume 3D printing.

Technik Trend

Additive Fertigung

Mobile Injection Molding Complements Large-Volume 3D Printing

Arburg presents its expertise on important topics such as sustainability, digitalization, energy efficiency and automation at the Anniversary Days.

The new Allrounder 470 H hybrid machine (here in the “Comfort” version) is setting the stage for a new machine technology that is particularly energy-saving, resource-efficient, production efficient and user friendly.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Unternehmen und Unternehmer

In-House Trade Show with Special Signs

In the fiscal year 2021, the Wittmann Group realized the third highest figure in its corporate history.

In the fiscal year 2021, the Wittmann Group realized the third highest figure in its corporate history. In spite of the supply chain problems preventing an even higher sales figure, Wittmann is looking ahead with optimism.

In the fiscal year 2021, the Wittmann Group realized € 376 million in sales, the third highest figure in its corporate history. The order intake figure even reached an all-time high. In spite of the supply chain problems preventing an even higher sales figure, company is looking ahead with optimism.

This optimism is also reflected in the Group’s continuing investment activities. For example, at Wittmann Battenfeld in Kottingbrunn, the construction of a new hall with more than 3,000 m² floor space was started in 2021, to house a fully automatic pallet shelf warehouse with 1,700 storage locations, an assembly area for large and vertical machines, as well as a new electrical workshop. Most of the construction work has now been completed. The assembly hall will go into operation at the end of July, the pallet shelf warehouse and the electrical workshop will be operating at full capacity by September. On the roof of the new hall, a solar power system is being installed, consisting of 1,604 panels with a total capacity of 651.8 MWh per annum.

Moreover, the extension of the R&D facility of Wittmann Technology GmbH, located at Percostrasse in Vienna, was completed this April. Most of the new offices for 40 software and hardware developers are already occupied.

Wittmann Battenfeld Deutschland GmbH is investing in both of its technical labs located at Meinerzhagen and Nuremberg. In Meinerzhagen, the existing technical lab is being remodeled and extended, to offer customers sufficient space for factory acceptance tests from autumn this year. The technical lab located in Nuremberg is being completely modernized.

Another major investment project is under way in the USA. In May 2022, the last extension stage for Plant 1 of Wittmann USA Inc. in Torrington, CT has been commissioned. This will be an extension by 1,000 m² of the area for automation systems and complete injection molding cells, combined with further structural alterations, such as a solar power system consisting of 539 panels with a total annual capacity of 322.9 MWh. Further extensions are also planned for the neighboring Plant 2.

The Polish subsidiary has purchased a 16,400 square meter piece of land in Krze Duże, close to its current location. Planning for the construction of a new building for sales, service and training facilities is in full swing. The start of construction is scheduled for the end of the first quarter of 2023. Completion is expected before the end of 2023.

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