For the production of plastic components for an automotive air suspension system, LKH Kunststoffwerk Heiligenroth GmbH & Co. KG uses two flexible systems from the injection molding machines manufacturer Arburg. These produce up to six part variants and, thanks to an integrated laser station, each part is traceable via an individual data matrix code (DM code).

The gripper of the six-axis robot first removes the finished parts from one of the mold halves. It then places the pre-heated inserts into the opposite mold half

LKH Produces Fully Automated Traceable Part Variants for the Automotive Industry

Automatisierungszellen

Automatisierungstechnik

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Laserbeschriftung

Oberflächentechnik

Laserbearbeitungen

Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Light Suspension

Kuka is demonstrating this – not only at K 2022 – but also in a current customer project with Hauff.

According to the manufacturer, the stand-out quality of the KR Quantec is not only optimal production efficiency, but also its economical commissioning and maintenance concept.

16:9

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

kunststoffe-international.com

Fertigungsautomation

Prozessautomation

Top Rack Rollers for Dishwashers in Seconds

Automotive supplier Coko produces four structural parts and twelve visible parts for a truck driver’s cab on a fully automated injection molding line.

Dominick Sudeck (left), Global Process Management, and Sascha Böning, Industrial Engineering, in front of the production cell’s complex handling system.

Coko Manufactures Different Automotive Parts on a Single Turnkey System

Automatisierungskomponenten

Inserttechnik

Multiaxialroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Industrieroboter klein

Montageeinrichtungen

KFZ-Zulieferer

Dienstleistungen

Sixteen in One Go

Where the managing directors see the greatest challenges in the future.

Michael Wittmann, Managing Partner of the Wittmann Group and Managing Director of Wittmann Technology

Strategie und Organisation

Wirtschaft

Schröder, Susanne

Materialhandling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

“We Need Openness in All Directions”

ENGEL, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, is one of the globally leading companies in plastics processing machines. From individual injection moulding machines to integrated and automated production cells, ENGEL offers customised solutions for thermoplastic, thermoset and elastomer processing from a single source. ENGEL injection moulding solutions are used, for example, to manufacture automotive components, housings and other parts for electrical and electronic products, household goods, toys and leisure articles, packaging, and products for medical technology and health care. ENGEL‘s leading market position is founded on two cornerstones: on the one hand, high-technology business that initiates permanent further development and on the other hand, large-scale production to make our cost-intensive development work financially affordable. With nine production plants in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as subsidiaries and representatives in more than 85 countries, ENGEL has a global presence. From its foundation in 1945 to the present day, ENGEL has always been 100 percent family-owned.

Engel Austria GmbH  

https://www.engelglobal.com

Industrie 4.0

Kautschuk / Elastomere

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Medizintechnik

Pressen von Kunststoffen

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Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Technische Kunststoffe

Thermoplaste

Temperieren

Wärmebehandlung

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

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

Energieeffizienz

Mikrospritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Fließpressen

Handling, Handhabungstechnik für die spanende Fertigung

Spritzgieß-Sonderverfahren

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Montage-Spritzgießen

Knickarmroboter

Co-Injektion (Barriere-/Sandwich-Spritzgießen)

Ressourcenmanagement

Produktion

Technical Excellence thanks  to Digital Assistance

The new Reverse Cube developed by Foboha manufactures various components or multi-component parts from varying materials in one step and assembles individual parts into finished products independently from the cycle time using an integrated handling robot. The automated process improves quality, accelerates cycle times by up to 40 % compared to separate injection molding and assembly processes, and thus enables substantial productivity gains at lower costs.

Two thermally separated cube molds rotate in opposite directions at a 90° angle. Bottom: injection and cooling of component 1 (roller made of PP) and component 2 (female connection made of POM), staggered by 180°

Manufacturing and Installing Multi-Component Parts on a Two-Part Cube Mold

Montage

Steuern, Regeln

Werkzeugtemperatursensoren

Messtechnik

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

Heißkanalsysteme

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Reverse Rotation

New date for the industry event is June 22th to 25th, 2022.

Safety first: to ensure that guests from all over the world can meet at the Technology Days (the picture shows the 2019 event) as carefree as possible, Arburg has postponed the date

Arburg Technology Days 2022 Will Take Place in June

Arburg will be showing the hybrid high-performance Hidrive series on its stand no. 21B25 in Hall 2, with an Allrounder 520 H producing 32 pipette tips in around 6 s cycle time.

The hybrid Allrounder 520 H on show at Interplastica is equipped with a 32-cavity mold and produces pipette tips in a cycle time of around 6 s.

High-Tech for Medical Technology

From 25 to 28 January, the OOO Engel team presents its booth in Moscow again. The injection molding machine manufacturer and system solution provider headquartered in Austria is making the huge potential of digital solutions tangible by producing technical parts live on a tie-bar-less victory injection molding machine.

Engel victory injection molding machines with tie-bar-less clamping units.

The Benefits of Tie-Bar-Less Technology

The product portfolio of Wittmann and Wittmann Battenfeld will in future be presented under the uniform Wittmann brand name. This reflects the company’s claim to be a provider of total solutions for injection molders.

Michael Wittmann, Managing Director and CEO of the Wittmann Group. The group operates eight production plants in five countries, and the additional sales companies at their 34 different locations are present in all major industrial markets around the world.

Unternehmen

kunststoffe.de

Wittmann Group Changes Its Brand Strategy

Paul Caprio has left Engel North America effective January 31st, 2022. Now the company presents the new management board.

Engel North America Management Board (left to right): Johann Dastl (CFO), Vanessa Malena (COO), Benjamin Lettner (CSO), Mark Sankovitch (CEO).

New Management Board at Engel North America

In the past, relying on vertical injection molding machines instead of traditional horizontal molding machines when it came to the production of 2-component molded parts was a common option for molding small and medium-sized parts but not for large size parts. But when the automotive supplier Eldisy was faced with parts in that segment horizontal injection molding machines proved to be an inaptly alternative as new vertical machine systems proved as more reliable and therefore more productive. In the Bavarian injection molding machine manufacturer LWB-Steinl, the company found a partner to enter this new territory.

A vertical gantry frame machine with two thermoplastic injection units injecting from above proves to be a “gamechanger” for the production of 2-component automotive components at Eldisy in the German Gardelegen.

Eldisy Switches to Vertical Machines for the Production of Large-Size 2-Components

With a System Change  to New Competitiveness

Engel has developed a new way to process plastic scrap as flakes on an injection molding machine straight after grinding. This innovation eliminates the pelletization step and significantly boosts the economics of plastics recycling. The key to consistently high product quality is to vent the plastic melt.

Test setup at the pilot plant in St. Valentin, Austria: for the two-stage process, Engel has combined a plasticizing screw with an injection screw.

Venting in a Two-Stage Process Boosts the Efficiency of Recycling Processes

Schmelzefilter

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kreislaufwirtschaft

High-Quality Recycled Plastics Obtained Directly from Flakes

Guido Frohnhaus has been Managing Director Technology & Engineering at Arburg for a good two years now. The pandemic restrictions meant that he has made very few appearances outside the company so far, but, as he says himself, he spent the time getting to know the in-house processes at all levels and in great detail. In this interview with Kunststoffe, the 52-year-old talks about the course he plans to set and how crucial the high level of in-house manufacturing and programming expertise is for the company’s independence.

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Digitale Transformation

Innovationen und neue Technologie

“Gestica Will Be the Fixed Star in the Customer’s Universe”

Cycle Separated into Individual Processes

The Bavarian machine manufacturer LWB Steinl, with the multicell, is presenting an unusual method for processing polymer molding compounds.

The Bavarian machine manufacturer LWB Steinl, with the multicell, is presenting an unusual method for processing polymer molding compounds. The new feature of this multi-station concept is the separation of the injection molding cycle into individual processes and the possibility of subsequently recombining them into a new needs-oriented sequence.

In the system presented, an injection molding machine is combined with a pool of exchangeable mold sets. These exchangeable molds are transferred by means of industrial robots cyclically between the injection molding machine, external heating or cooling stations and downstream demolding and secondary finishing stations, and back to the injection molding machine.

In particular in the case of molded parts with long cooling or heating times, machine capacity that is freed up by swapping out the molds into external heating or cooling stations can be used for additional injection cycles. With falling or fluctuating demanded quantities, the concept offers advantages, since individual exchangeable mold sets are taken out of circulation and the freed-up capacity can be filled by producing similar parts. The Multicell is modular in construction and can be flexibly adapted. It is available in combination with almost all vertical machines from LWB.

LWB Steinl GmbH & Co. KG  

https://www.lwb-steinl.com/

In the Multicell, the cycle steps are split up between multiple stations.

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