Several thousand customers, partners and interested parties from 90 countries took part in the first virtual trade fair and online conference from Engel.

Virtual Show with Several Thousand Participants

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Dienstleistungen

Lohnfertigung

Automatisierungstechnik

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

First Edition of the Engel live e-xperience

With immediate effect the registration documents for K 2022 are available online. The deadline for registration for all the companies wishing to participate in K 2022 is 31 May 2021.

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoffverarbeitungsmaschinen

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Kunststoff-Erzeugung

Kunststoffhandel

Handel

K 2022: Registration Documents Available

Pascal Laborde has been in charge of the French Arburg subsidiary in Aulnay-sous-Bois since 1 November 2020. His main objectives are to further develop the successful business in France and to continue to advance the excellent reputation Arburg enjoys as a machine builder and partner for the plastics processing industry.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

New Managing Director for Arburg France

Investment strengthens Arburg´s expertise and electric drives portfolio. AMK has been Arburg‘s development partner in electric drives for decades.

Elektrische Antriebe für Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebe

Elektrische Antriebe

Unternehmen

kunststoffe.de

Arburg Acquires AMK‘s Drives & Automation Division

Susanne Schröder will become editor-in-chief of the magazines Kunststoffe and Kunststoffe international on December 1, 2020. The current editor-in-chief Dr. Karlhorst Klotz will leave the company by mutual agreement.

Werkzeuge für Leichtbauwerkstoffe

Präzisionswerkzeuge

Tiefziehwerkzeug

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Werkzeugüberwachung

Toolmanagement

Werkzeugwechselsysteme, Spritzgieß

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

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Betriebsausrüstung / Betriebsmittel

Absaugvorrichtungen

Fluorkunststoffe

Thermoplaste

Werkzeugverwaltungssoftware

Prüfen von Kunststoffen

Messtechnik

Biokunststoffe

Presswerkzeuge, Kunststoff

Werkzeugreinigung, Kunststoffe

Standardkunststoffe

Technische Kunststoffe

Füllstoffe für Kunststoffe

Kunststoff

Bauwesen

Baustoffe

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Kunststofffasern

Verstärkungsstoffe

Kunststoff-Recycling

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Change in the Chief Editorial Office of Kunststoffe

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) decided the cancellation of the in-person components of NPE2021, scheduled for May 17–21, 2021, in Orlando, Florida.

No Live-Event from May 17 – 21, 2021

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Kunststoff-Verpackungsmaschine

Sondermaschinen

NPE2021: In-Person-Components Cancelled

AMI has announced that its four focused plastics industry exhibitions, which were scheduled to take place at Messe Essen in Germany on 1–2 June 2021, have now been postponed to 29–30 September 2021.

AMI Postpones European Plastics Industry Expos

For efficiently addressing a variety of small, quickly solvable challenges at the compounding line, Feddem, will in future offer remote maintenance support via a smartphone app.

Feddem Focuses on Remote Maintenance with Augmented Reality

Extrusion

Smart Factory

Energieeffizienz

Instandhaltung

Software

Smartphone View at the Extruder

Comprehensive resource efficiency means far more than the preservation of natural resources. It also includes the productivity factors of material, machine and labor. The plastics industry has made a great contribution to resource efficiency, but often finds itself on the defensive. Yet a knowledge of the various relationships involved provides enough material to go on the offensive with arguments illustrating the benefits of plastics technology. 

The Plastics Industry Needs to Adopt a Bolder Approach 

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Trockner

Pultrusion

Nachhaltigkeit

Resource Efficiency with  Plastics Technology 

Rotation, shear, heat and pressure – this much is clear: These are the factors required to compound plastics on twin screw extruders. From a scientific point of view, however, the question remained until recently as to which mechanisms exist during incipient fusion along with the energy input into the melt resulting. Scientists from the plastics division at Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, Germany, have been successful in gaining an insight into these processes by using new types of measuring techniques.  

Measuring Technique Provides New Insight into the Compounding Process 

Compoundieren

Technik Trend

kunststoffe-international.com

Homogenizing Section Clarified 

SEAM (Screw Extrusion Additive Manufacturing) opens up new perspectives for additive manufacturing. The process was developed by Metrom GmbH in Hartmannsdorf, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for machine tools and forming technology (IWU) in Chemnitz, both Germany. 

Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of Large-Volume Plastic Components  

3D Printing in the Fast Lane  

Saniconcentrate is a modified polymer concentrate that is added to plastics prior to the manufacturing process. It prevents the adhesion of fouling, bacteria and biofilm on marine tanks without recurring to biocides or any other toxic components. 

Harvesting More and Better Shellfish 

Additive

Parx Materials Technology Preventing Biofouling in Marine 

At HRSflow‘s headquarters in San Polo di Piave, Italy, a new production facility for hot runner systems based on lean manufacturing principles was recently completed.

3000 sqm for Lean Manufacturing

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

HRSflow Expands Headquarter

Researchers in the UK and the United States have succeeded in ‘fine tuning’ a new thermoplastic biomaterial to enable both the rate at which it degrades in the body and its mechanical properties to be controlled independently.

Kunststoffe, bioabbaubar

Medizintechnik

New Biomaterials Can Be ‘Fine-tuned’ for Medical Applications

Thomas Gangl has been appointed new Borealis CEO as of 1 April 2021 . Alfred Stern has been appointed OMV Executive Board member for Chemicals & Materials.

Chemie

New Borealis CEO

Optimize Processes Efficiently with Engel performance.boost

Whether it is the cycle time, energy consumption or process stability: the levers for greater efficiency and quality in the injection molding process are many and varied. With the new performance.boost Engel offer its customers an expertise as a service for process analysis and optimization.

Whether it is the cycle time, energy consumption or process stability: the levers for greater efficiency and quality in the injection molding process are many and varied. Two things are important to exploit the full potential: in-depth knowledge of the injection molding machine and extensive experience in application technology. The application engineers from Engel Austria GmbH, Schwertberg, Austria, have both. The new performance.boost sees Engel offer its customers this punch-packing expertise as a service for process analysis and optimization.

Assistance Systems, Condition Monitoring Solutions – what is useful for the customer?

Engel performance.boost starts with an in-depth analysis of the running production process by the specialists of the machine manufacturer. They record the process settings and the pertinent efficiency and quality performance indicators to identify the existing optimization potential. While doing so, they take into account the improvements offered by, for example, smart assistance systems, condition monitoring solutions or other products from Engel‘s inject 4.0 portfolio.

Based on these results, the customer decides which optimization steps they would like to im-plement with the support of Engel application technology. Users benefit from Engel‘s high level of expertise in systems solutions. The automation solution, the peripheral units and the upstream and downstream processes integrated into the production process can be evaluated in the scope of process analysis and taken into account in the optimization recommendations.

„Process analysis and optimization has never been so efficient,“ stresses Harald Wegerer, Vice President of Engel‘s Customer Service Division. „Thanks to e-connect.24, even travel time and costs can be saved in many cases“.

The Machine Supplier Becoming a Production Supporter

e-connect.24, the Engel solution for online support and remote maintenance, makes it possible to transfer screens from the machine control unit to an external computer via a secure remote connection in real time, allowing virtual collaboration at the customer‘s request.

Digital solutions are playing an increasingly important role at all levels of the product life cycle. Engel is already helping its customers to leverage efficiency and quality potential along the entire value stream with numerous established and proven products and services from its inject 4.0 portfolio. Engel performance.boost establishes the next milestone with its focus on optimizing ongoing production processes.

„We‘re increasingly becoming a production support service“, says Wegerer. „With our consulting expertise, we give our customers the assurance that their production is operating at the best possible efficiency levels and delivering consistently high quality at all times.“

Engel Austria GmbH  

www.engelglobal.com

With its expert knowledge, the company identifies process optimization potential and provides user support during their implementation. The results include shorter cycle times, superior part quality, greater process stability, lower energy consumption or a longer machine service life

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