Starting with the systematic design of manufacturing processes and the precise simulation of part manufacture, through smart tooling technology and sophisticated melt guidance, to efficient mold temperature control, numerous exhibitors have many innovations in the field of tooling technology on offer at K 2019.The current debates concerning marine pollution as well as anthropogenic climate change and its consequences seem to be having an effect at this world-leading trade show for plastics processing in Düsseldorf, Germany. A number of companies are noting the growing customer interest in sustainable, carbon-neutral and resource-efficient modes of production, and offering products and services intended to satisfy this interest.

Resource-Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Products Are the Trend in  Tooling Technology

Werkzeuginnendrucksensoren

Messtechnik

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Temperiergeräte

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Gießanlagen

Temperiertechnik

Normalien für die Kunststofffertigung

Normalien

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

Heißkanalsysteme

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Kaltkanalsysteme

Exhibitors See Green

It is not new to state that injection molding is a cyclic process. However, injection molding manufacturers are now concentrating on another cycle. Machine concepts for processing bioplastics or recyclates are being optimized, the energy efficiency of machines increased, and rejects minimized in order to contribute to the circular economy.

Circular Economy and Digitalization Are Key Issues for Machine Manufacturers

Spritzgieß-Sonderverfahren

Spritzgießmaschinen

The Eternal Circle

Mit dem Jahreswechsel 2020/2021 hat Daniel Sieberer vom bisherigen Alleineigentümer Julian Götzfried einen Geschäftsanteil von 80% an der GIWA GmbH mit Sitz in Westendorf übernommen. GIWA entwickelt und produziert mit rund 200 Mitarbeitern anspruchsvolle Kunststoffteile.

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Dienstleistungen

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Personen

kunststoffe.de

Neuer Mehrheitseigentümer für die GIWA GmbH

Tool and mold makers are detail oriented and innovative. Prof. Thomas Seul and Fabian Diehr met with some industry players to explore different paths they have taken through the thicket of this industry-jungle they have to deal with.

A Journey through the Landscape of the Tool and Mold Making Industry

Mikrospritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Innovationsmanagement

Produktentwicklung (F+E)

Projektmanagement

Wirtschaft

Qualitätssicherung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Automatisierungstechnik

Reinraumsysteme / -technik

Produktmanagement

Trend Setting or Following?

The injection molding simulation becomes more comprehensive and precise, starting with the material data up to the prediction accuracy. As this year’s Moldflow User Meeting has shown, Autodesk Moldflow can link with more and more CAD programs, significantly increasing the benefits of predictive results.

The Future of Simulation: Questions and Answers at the Moldflow User Meeting “Connect!”

Vernetzung / Cloudlösung für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

CAD Werkzeug-, Formenbau

More Complex Tasks,  More Easily Solved?

 Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., Bolton, Ontario/Canada, has launched its new NexPET system – a mid-volume PET preform molding solution purpose-built to help producers introduce multiple new applications into the market more quickly and cost-effectively than ever before.

Polyethylen

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Thermoplaste

 A Solution to Accommodate Niche Brands

Since 2007, one major construction project has followed another at Arburg in Lossburg, Germany: customer center, assembly hall, tradeshow logistics hall, training center and currently the next assembly hall. While environmentally friendly construction and production methods have long been established at the site, the company is now announcing an eco-efficiency program for the injection molding world, bearing the name “Arburg Green World.”

Arburg Is Pursuing a Closed Value Chain for Plastics

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Digitale Transformation

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Energieeffizienz

Ressourcenmanagement

Produktion

Green Wave

Haitian International, the Chinese manufacturer of injection molding machines, is consolidating its growth of the last ten years while its European business flourishes. New locations and additional investments will support its foreign activities. On the program for the K 2019 is the introduction of what is now their third generation technology.

Haitian’s Success Story Continues with Big Plans

Elektrische Antriebe für Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebe

Elektrische Antriebe

Plans for Further Expansion

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.

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

Extrusion

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Nachhaltigkeit

Umweltmanagement

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Compoundieren

Moving with the Times

With its Industry 4.0 solution portfolio, the Wittmann Group is receiving a positive echo in the market. This virtually extends the injection-molding machine into a smart workcell. For the near future, the company is tooling up for the demands of a circular economy – and declining demand.

Wittmann Continues to See Itself Well Placed as a One-Stop Supplier

Biokunststoffe

Immediately Ready for Use

The Circular Economy is not only the theme topic at the K 2019. It is also the “green” thread running through the fair exhibit by Engel, the provider of injection molding machines and integrated system solutions. Industry 4.0 is turning out to be a driving force for recycling. This is a most timely insight, since the branch is in for several economically cool years.

Engel Supports Strong Involvement by the Plastics Industry in a Circular Economy

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

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

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Co-Injektion (Barriere-/Sandwich-Spritzgießen)

Organobleche (gewebeverstärkte Thermoplast-Halbzeuge)

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

A Second Life for Plastics

The injection molding system supplier Husky is launching its HyPET HPP5e. This is a refinement of the proven HPP platform, which, as a fully integrated system for the manufacture of PET preforms, is intended to obtain greater energy savings, system reliability, preform quality and user friendliness than its predecessor.

Husky: Advances in the Injection Molding of PET Bottle Preforms

Polybutylenterephthalat

Refining a Proven Platform

In addition to excellent mechanical characteristics and suitability for recycling, the key feature of hybrid lightweight structures made of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics is that automated, large series production is possible. New mold and process technologies were successfully developed within the scope of the ReLei research project, enabling the production of complex shaped sandwich elements in an efficient combined process.

Thermoplastic Sandwich Structures for Large Series Applications

Schaumspritzgießen

Fasern

Faserverarbeitung

Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Andere Werkstoffe

Making It Big with Small Bubbles

With advanced process integration and a higher degree of automation, the complexity of injection molding processes is cumulative. This trend also increases the demand imposed on control technology. The clearer, more convenient and more intuitive the control system is for the operator, the safer and more efficient it can be to operate even large production plants and manufacturing cells that combine different technologies. Engel now goes one step further with tutorials integrated directly into the control of the injection molding machines.

Tutorials Directly on the Operator Panel of the Injection Molding Machine

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Control Complex Processes Easily

Single-serve capsules as used, for example, for coffee, are a booming product in the packaging sector. The latest generation of capsules is injection molded and includes an integrated barrier layer to conserve flavor and aroma while saving material compared to alternative manufacturing processes. These complex injection molding parts are produced in high volumes by a Swiss company using Arburg machines.

Lapp Tec Employs Sustainable, Efficient Solutions for Barrier Capsules

Aroma-Tight and Cost-Effective

Over the last few months Wittmann Battenfeld has succeeded in winning new customers in many markets with its SmartPower injection molding machines.

Over the last few months Wittmann Battenfeld has succeeded in winning new customers in many markets with its SmartPower injection molding machines. The appealing design of the SmartPower, its near-silent operation, the highly repeatable process capabilities, wide platens and class-leading compactness are perhaps some of the main factors influencing a purchase. However, once in operation, the bonus of the SmartPower’s extreme energy efficiency performance also becomes an inescapable fact, says the company.

In numerous meetings with customers held by Dan Williams, Managing Director of Wittmann Battenfeld UK following the installation of SmartPower machines, energy efficiency has come up as a topic of particular significance. According to the company, the magnitude of actual savings realized on the production floor by comparison to similar machine models has exceeded expectations and surprised many users.

A typical example is White Horse Plastics (WHP) based in Oxfordshire, which recently ordered a SmartPower 60. WHP Managing Director Paul Bobby says that “after labor and raw material costs, energy and utilities present us with the next most significant overhead. I always expect to see some significant improvement when comparing old to new, but these outcomes were far more impressive than could ever have been hoped for. In fact, the greatly reduced running costs from the SmartPower machine were so incredible that it led to us repeating the exercise in order to check our methodology. But when repeated these results were exactly the same. These machines are called SmartPower for a very good reason” says Bobby “and the energy savings achieved are truly world class.”

At Thomas Dudley-owned Rugby Plastics similar experiences have emerged: Dr Steven Pepper has been leading the company drive towards factory efficiencies. In this case a SmartPower 50 injection molding machine was the basis for the energy measurement work. The machine was supplied with servo power and a HiQ quality control package and it also deployed the regenerative KERS braking system so effectively used by the Wittmann Group.

The SmartPower was compared to a machine that had been supplied in the early 1990’s. Unsurprisingly perhaps the test results were astounding, revealing that the SmartPower injection molding machine was six times more energy efficient and six times less costly to run than the older machine.

Joint Wittmann Battenfeld UK Managing Director Tracy Cadman says that “my accounting background and expertise tells me that the low running costs of Wittmann Battenfeld designed equipment has to be a primary consideration for our customers in any purchasing decision. Customers are increasingly factoring these numbers into a lifetime of machinery performance – over ten, fifteen, twenty years.”

Tracy also notes that the company is able to confidently model and forecast the reduced energy cost they will save prospective customers with SmartPower based technology. “Our leading customers in the UK and Ireland are increasingly realizing that low energy production is helping to future proof businesses, not only for cost but also in terms of transparent Industry 4.0 production and securing a low environmental footprint.”

Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH  

https://www.wittmann-group.com

Tracy Cadman and Dan Williams in front of a SmartPower 90 (f. l.)

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