Zahoransky supplies systems and injection molds for manufacturing breakage-proof primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. Three typical applications.

The double quick-change system for pipette tips permits rapid restart of production after brief maintenance interruptions.

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Automatisierungszellen

Automatisierungstechnik

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Medizintechnik

Medizinprodukte

Pharmaceutical Primary Packaging  with No Risk of Breakage

Under the new name and the umbrella of the Indian Vasatha Group, the former KTW-Werkzeugbau is thriving in Waidhofen, Germany.

In the VTW pilot plant, the molds have been sampled to date. In future, it will also receive customer systems for start-up series.

Like a Phoenix from the Ashes

Rodinger Kunststoff-Technik supports their customers all the way from product development and prototype molds to a product ready for serial production.

Tiny structures in the cavity of a Lab-on-a-Chip cartridge: complex and filigree geometries such as these can be efficiently manufactured by injection molding thanks to high-precision mold technology and special plastics.

Manufacturing Materials to Laboratory Standards

Reinraumtechnik

Betriebsausrüstung / Betriebsmittel

Medizintechnik (KU)

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Plastics: the Obvious Choice

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.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

kunststoffe-international.com

kunststoffe.de

Schmelzefilter

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Polyethylenterephthalat

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Thermoplaste

Energieeffizienz

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Processing rPET by Thin-Wall  Injection Molding

With the MicroJect Advanced, Faurecia, a company of the Forvia Group, is presenting a new manufacturing process for foam injection molding.

Single-source component: the door panel comes directly from the injection-molding machine as a ready-to-install visible component with different grains.

New Injection Molding Technology for Foamed Parts with Class A Surfaces

Schaumspritzgießen

Werkzeugbeschichten

Dienstleistungen

Dienstleistungen in der Metallbearbeitung

Design Surfaces thanks to Innovative Mold Coating

With Hekutip QC, a quality control assistant for pipette tips, Hekuma and Ziemann & Urban have developed a standalone solution that covers wide-ranging testing requirements fully automatically, as well as being compact and swift to deploy.

Hekutip QC covers wide-ranging testing requirements fully automatically, as well as being compact and swift to deploy.

Fertigungsautomation

Prozessautomation

A Standalone Measuring Station with a Wide Testing Range

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.

Solar / PV

Energieerzeugung

Erneuerbare Energie

Temperiertechnik

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Instandhaltung

Biokunststoffe

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Oberflächentechnik

Digitalisierung

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

Compoundieren

It Can Be Done!

Production systems for large molded parts can be flexibly and economically reconfigured or expanded using hot runner adapter plates.

Melt transfer from two on the side injection units of an Engel v-duo 2300 RTM into the middle of the hot runner intermediate plate mounted on the sliding table. 

Economical Solution for the Production of Thermoplastic Large-Structure Components

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Heißkanalsysteme

Co-Injektion (Barriere-/Sandwich-Spritzgießen)

Flexible Injection Solutions  with Adapter Plates

Injection molding cell combines high article variance with automated product changeover.

With the turnkey solution, 159 product variants can be manufactured.

Flexible Production Concept Combines High Article Variance with Automation

Automatisierungskomponenten

Inserttechnik

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Multiaxialroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

One System, 159 Variants

We look behind the cavity walls and along the data cable at what hot runner technology now offers in terms of mechanical, electronic and digital expertise.

The smart Control monitoring unit permits integrated monitoring of the injection molding production cell, including the mold, hot runner system and all ancillary components. The “Luer connector” application case was on show at K 2022.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions at K 2022: Hot Runner Technology

Mikrospritzgießen

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Mess-, Steuer- und Regelgeräte

Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Temperaturregler

Messtechnik

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

Additive Fertigung

Everything under Control

Moldmaster uses thermoanalysis to identify melt leakage in the manifold outlet.

The TempMaster control unit detects leakages in the manifold recess by thermoanalysis.

Heißkanaltechnik

Messung von Umgebung (Klima)

Leak Detection in Manifolds

The production of functional control panels in a one-step injection molding process also makes production attractive for processors in Western Europe.

So-called disappearance or dead-front effects are integrated into the control panel.

Kapazitive Sensoren

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

HMI, Bedienelemente, Displays

Elektronik

Kfz-Elektronik

Wipe-Clean Control Panels

Witosa is replacing titanium with 3D-printed steel elements in its hot runner systems. Its long-term goal is carbon neutrality.

Reducing the CCF through Titanium-Free Mold Constructions

Hot Runner, Carbon Neutral

Injection molding: Family molds can produce a wide variety of parts in a single shot. Where the challenges lie in process control.

Three at once: a six-axis robot removes the final injection-molded assembly, consisting of door trim, map pocket and sill.

One Tool, One Shot, Three Parts

The interplay between the physical and virtual process chain permits the fully automatic production of FRP-metal hybrid parts every minute.

Virtualization offers great potential for better understanding of complex manufacturing processes for hybrid parts and shortening development times. The digital twin, in combination with the recorded process parameters of the physical process chain, is intended as an efficient tool for virtual design and optimization for future hybrid processes.

From Simulation to Mass Production of Hybrid Parts

Leichtbau

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Organobleche (gewebeverstärkte Thermoplast-Halbzeuge)

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

With an Automated Process Chain  and a Digital Twin

Double Quick-Change System Speeds up Production

Zahoransky Automation & Molds GmbH has entered into a partnership with the Swiss company Kebo AG. The result of this collaboration is a new mold concept for the production of pipette tips, which features a double quick-change system.

Both 8x8 modules on the nozzle side and the cores on the ejector side can be changed in just a few steps to allow production to be resumed immediately when mold cores and wear bushings are replaced. Michael Schmidt, Managing Director Zahoransky Automation & Molds GmbH, comments: “Pipette tip molds are ‘divas’ from a production point of view – very sensitive in the process – and require precise handling: The challenge is that long thin cores are immersed in a counter-bearing and injected on one side. With our new design, all maintenance activities can be completed in a few minutes on the injection molding machine thanks to these quick-change systems on our mold.”

The new 64-cavity pipette tip mold with double quick-change system was developed together with Swiss-based Kebo AG. The company, based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, has more than 40 years of experience in developing hot runner technology solutions. Says Gerold Keller, owner and CEO of Kebo AG: “We are very pleased with this special partnership between two mold makers who complement each other ideally for this project. As a result, we were able to achieve our common goal in a short development time and improve the technology for manufacturing pipette tips in a way that significantly reduces production costs and significantly improves service life for manufacturing companies.”

KEBO AG Formenbau  

https://www.kebo.com

Zahoransky Automation & Molds GmbH 

https://www.zahoransky-group.com

If a core breaks during production, it can be replaced quickly

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Each heating element can be removed individually in a few simple steps

The new pipette tool from Zahoransky powered by Kebo – 64 cavity

The heater can be disconnected via the cable and the block including the heating element can be removed