By the end of the year, Germany‘s largest used injection molding machine will be on its way from southern Germany via Amsterdam to Mumbai. Gindumac organizes the complete logistic handling with the customer.

All components of the large machine, such as the plasticizing unit in the picture, have to be removed and packed for long distance transport to India

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Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Spritzgießmaschinen

Gebrauchtmaschinenhandel

Dienstleistungen

Dienstleistungen in der Metallbearbeitung

Kunststoff-Verpackungsmaschine

Sondermaschinen

Gebrauchtmaschinen

Betriebstechnik für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Peripherie)

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Gindumac Receives Big Order from India

According to Amaplast, the latest mid-year survey conducted by the MECS Statistical Study Center records double-digit growth in both turnover and orders, consolidating the climate of renewed faith in the sector after the long and difficult period of the pandemic.

The MECS Study Center has completed its National Statistical Survey, conducted for the first time in organic form among Italian manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment, and molds

Extrusionsanlagen

Verpackungsmaschinen

Logistik

Positive Trend for Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machines

Plastics Insights visited no less than five plants during a site visit to the world’s largest injection molding machine manufacturer Haitian in Ningbo.

Dominik Wiesner next to a component of a impressivly large die casting machine.

Schröder, Susanne

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Messe Chinaplas

kunststoffe-international.com

Länderspecial China

A Visit to Haitian in Ningbo

On the occasion of Chinaplas, editor-in-chief Susanne Schröder from Plastics Insights visited Engel’s Chinese subsidiary in Shanghai.

Peter Garimort stands next to a turntable for a 4-color machine.

A Visit to Engel in Shanghai

Plastics Insights visited injection molding machine manufacturer Haitian in Ningbo and spoke with Marketing Manager Dominik Wiesner.

To ensure that everyone feels comfortable at work, all Haitian production facilities are planted with lush greenery.

Machine Production under Palm Trees

Plastics Insights visited the Chinese presence of Engel in Shanghai and interviewed the managing directors Adam Zhang and Peter Garimort.

View of the assembly hall at Engel Machinery in Shanghai. The plant mainly manufactures large machines: From two-platen injection molding machines with a clamping force of 17 000 kN (pictured here) to die casting machines with a clamping force of over 90 000 kN.

“Local for Local” with Established Engineering Know-How

The Wilhelm Böllhoff GmbH & Co. KG employs Arburg’s ALS host computer system as a uniform MES at locations all over the world. Not only all their injection molding machines are networked with information technology via ALS, but hundreds of machines and turnkey systems for metalworking and assembly, as well. Some 3000 injection molds are also managed. This generates transparency in everything from order planning and process optimization to maintenance.

The process status of every machine can be viewed via the ALS terminal

Böllhoff Uses ALS as a Uniform Global MES for Injection Molding and Metalworking

Spritzgießen

Big Data für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Energiemanagement

Energieeffizienz

Completely Joined to the Host Computer System

In cars, LEDs are taking over ever more applications and are increasingly used as differentiating design elements. In order to ensure a high luminous efficiency even with complex geometries and elongated structures, Engel has developed a new plasticizing process for manufacturing light guides.

The transformation of the automobile also strongly affects the vehicle interior. Light is gaining in importance as a design element

The Principle of Starve Feeding: Injection Molding Ultrahigh Purity Light Guides

Farbmessgeräte

Messtechnik

Optische Mess- und Prüftechnik

LED / OLED-Systeme und Faseroptik

Lichttechnik

Schnecken und Plastifiziersysteme

Less Granules  Stock Means More Quality

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

Nachhaltigkeit

Umweltmanagement

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Ressourcenmanagement

Produktion

Compoundieren

Moving with the Times

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.

The HyPET HPP5e is claimed to achieve up to 7 % energy saving compared to the predecessor model

Husky: Advances in the Injection Molding of PET Bottle Preforms

Polybutylenterephthalat

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Thermoplaste

Refining a Proven Platform

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

Spritzgießmaschinen, Spritzpressen

Kunststoffverarbeitungsmaschinen

Automatisierungstechnik

New Vice President of Asia-Pacific Region

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

Biokunststoffe

Schneidmühlen

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

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

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

Schaumspritzgießen

Smart Factory

Mikrospritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Fließpressen

Handling, Handhabungstechnik für die spanende Fertigung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Spritzgieß-Sonderverfahren

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Montage-Spritzgießen

Knickarmroboter

Co-Injektion (Barriere-/Sandwich-Spritzgießen)

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Technical Excellence thanks  to Digital Assistance

The company Leonhard Kurz is a specialist in the development and production of decorative and functional coatings for plastics applications, which are applied by means of carrier foils during injection molding. Essential objectives of the company are technology and process development as well as the optimization of the 3D foil forming around corners and the contours of the plastic parts. For this purpose, Kurz operates an extensive injection molding technology center. New in the machinery: two production cells based on servo-hydraulic injection molding machines from Wittmann Battenfeld.

Decorative and functional coatings, such as those developed and produced at Leonhard Kurz in Nuremberg/Fürth, Germany, enable efficient implementation of new design concepts, shown here, for example on a car door panel with variable and dimmable backlighting

Leonhard Kurz Has Extended its Development Capacities with Injection Molding Systems from Wittmann Battenfeld.

Kapazitive Sensoren

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

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

From the Roll to the Third Dimension

The required screw diameter can be ascertained on the basis of the shot volume. The formula for the average residence time can be used to estimate the degree of utilization and the thermal load on the material.

Various shapes of plasticizing screws. The correct design is approached in several steps

Part 1 of the Series Discusses the Basic Design of a Plasticizing Unit and the Correct Choice of Injection Unit

All about Plasticizing Screws

Wintec, a member of the ENGEL group of companies headquartered in Austria, is expanding sales of t-win injection moulding machines. By expanding into Europe, the Engel Group is consistently developing its two-brand strategy.

Wintec, a member of the Engel group of companies headquartered in Austria, is expanding sales of t-win injection moulding machines to Europe. This step makes the dual-platen large-scale machines available worldwide.

Since 2014, Wintec in Changzhou, China, has built high-quality injection moulding machines for standard applications. In the six years of its existence, the company has firmly established the brand, first in Asia, later in METAI region (Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India) and, since 2018, on the American markets. By expanding into Europe, the Engel Group is consistently developing its two-brand strategy.

Broad Solution Expertise from a Single Source

„We are seeing an increasing demand in Europe for standardised injection moulding machines that are both powerful and quickly available,“ says Dr. Stefan Engleder, CEO of the Engel Group. The drivers of this development are increasing cost pressure on the one hand and changing product trends on the other. For example, product life cycles are becoming shorter in the domestic appliances sector. Standardised injection moulding machines that are quickly available support a short time-to-market here. Wintec delivers custom-fit solutions for these requirements with an attractive price-performance ratio.

„The Engel Group is the only supplier in the world that can offer single-source solutions for the entire spectrum of requirements – from standard single-component injection moulding to technologically sophisticated applications – with reliable products and systems that have been tried and tested over many years,“ as Dr. Christoph Steger, CSO of the Engel Group, emphasises.

t-win injection moulding machines are particularly popular for single-component injection moulding that does not require any custom technologies, but places high demands on quality and process consistency. The target industries include domestic appliances, technical moulding and automotive. The machines are delivered pre-configured, which shortens the time for commissioning.

Wintec machines are developed in Europe and produced in China. The production plant in Changzhou is integrated with the Engel Group‘s global quality management system. Following expansion of the location, which was completed in the early summer of 2020 and doubled the production floorspace, Wintec is well equipped to meet the rising global demand.

„Many early adopters are continuing to rely on Wintec for their further capital expenditure because the high quality, energy efficiency and reliability of the machines offer them competitive advantages,“ says Steger. „The excellent service is a further important decision-making criterion. Thanks to the Engel Group‘s global reach, our customers in all regions of the world benefit from fast on-site service and a great spare parts supply.“

The hydraulic dual platen machines from the t-win series are available with clamping forces from 4500 to 18000 kN and feature energy-saving servowin servo-hydraulics as standard. The powerful C3 control unit enables intuitive operator guidance, an ergonomic work approach and flexible integration of robots of a wide range of types and brands, especially the viper linear robot series by Engel.

t-win demonstration machines with various clamping forces are available in Austria and other European countries.

Engel Austria GmbH  

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Now also available in Europe: the hydraulic t-win machines are characterised by high productivity, low energy consumption and a compact design

Wintec`s injection moulding machines are developed in Europe and produced in Asia. The Wintec plant is located in Changzhou, China

„The great quality and reliability of t-win machines and the tightly meshed global service and spare parts network give our customers a competitive edge“, says Dr. Stefan Engleder, CEO of Engel Group