Arburg presents a total of four Allrounder exhibits and two Freeformers on show. All machines will be connected live to the Arburg host computer system ALS for demonstration purposes and to the arburgXworld customer portal, another focus of the trade fair display. Detailed information on the arburgGreenworld environmental and recycling program will round off Arburg‘s involvement in Chinaplas.

Arburg will be demonstrating the potential of freeformers for additive manufacturing on two exhibits at Chinaplas 2022.

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Freiraumverfahren

High-End Wherever You Look

Thin wall packaging manufacturers think in terms of efficiency gains in tenths of a second. Every cycle time reduction leads to increased productivity. Another factor influencing part costs is the energy efficiency of the production equipment. In these two key dimensions, Netstal was able to optimize the smallest model in the Elios series with 4500 kN clamping force.

The optimized Elios 4500 with electrically operated toggle levers enables users to achieve cycle time reductions and savings in power consumption (the photo shows the previous variant).

16:9

Higher Output and Reduced Energy Consumption

Energieeffizienz

Elektrische Antriebe für Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebe

Elektrische Antriebe

Clamping Unit of the Elios 4500 with Fully Electric Drive Concept

Flashing lights, injection molding machines and a fresh mind

A visit to Arburg in the North Black Forest.

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

Anlagen für die Additive Fertigung

Schröder, Susanne

Unternehmen

kunststoffe.de

On the Spot at Arburg

Mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence and a spirit of optimism

Visit to Engel in Schwertberg / Upper Austria.

Verpackungstechnik

Logistik

On the Spot at Engel

In the fiscal year 2021, the Wittmann Group realized the third highest figure in its corporate history.

Record Year for Wittmann

Engel’s new “Parameter Limits” feature provides a remedy. It supports injection molders in keeping the parameters constant within a process window.

With the new Parameter Limits feature, tolerance ranges for up to 150 process parameters can be fixed directly in the machine control system for up to 150 process parameters. A change of the selected setpoint values is then only possible within the defined process window.

Simple Determination of Process Windows and Quality beyond Parameter Limits

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Automatisierungstechnik

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0

Steuern, Regeln

Software

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Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Qualitätssicherung

Keeping Setting Parameters  under Control

Time to take stock: in what condition and with what agenda is the industry presenting itself after two-and-a-half years of a difficult climate? We have conducted a survey: insights into the dominant themes of the age.

Preview of K 2022: Kunststoffe Questionnaire on the Situation in Injection Molding Machine Construction

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

kunststoffe-international.com

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Nachhaltigkeit

Umweltmanagement

Mess-, Steuer- und Regelgeräte

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Harsh Realities

Arburg has been dealing with the issue of sustainability and resource efficiency for a very long time. The machine supplier is being integrated more and more by its customers into evaluations of climate-change activities along the supply chain.

Raw materials extraction through to delivery account for just 5 % of the CO2 emitted by an injection molding machine over its entire life cycle.  

Arburg Devises an Informative Product Carbon Footprint Calculation

Recycling

CO2 Footprint of Injection Molding Machines

The iQ product family from Engel will gain a new member at K 2022. iQ hold control automatically determines the optimum holding pressure time for the particular mold with no input from the operator.

 The optimum holding pressure time is often lower than that established at the beginning. In these cases, the cycle time is shortened.

iQ hold control Determines the Optimum Holding Pressure Time

Smart Factory

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Energiedatenmanagement

Holding out for Higher Quality

At the Deutsche Kautschuk Tagung (German Rubber Conference), held at the end of June in Nuremberg, Germany, Dr. Boy GmbH & Co. KG presented itself with a liquid silicone application running on a Boy XS.

With this silicone unit as special equipment for the Boy XS the medical syringe plugs were injection molded. 

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Boy Presented New LSR Application

 At KraussMaffei’s booth, automotive door modules are produced from former caps of insulin pens. The system supplier is presenting not only the machine hardware necessary for this but also new digital solutions.

Digital solutions are an essential component of the material loop from the insulin pen cap to the car door module.

Medizinprodukte

Medizintechnik

From the Insulin Pen Cap to the Automotive Door Module

At the introductory press conference for K 2022, Dr Thorsten Thümen, Senior Director Technology, outlined the company’s evolving strategic focus.

Senior Director for Technology Dr. Thorsten Thümen announces several premieres at K 2022.

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

New High-Speed Machine for the Packaging Market

On 1 August 2022, Stalinjose Selvanayagam has taken up his position as Managing Director of the sales and service subsidiary of Engel in Mumbai.

Stalinjose Selvanayagam heads Engel‘s sales and service subsidiary in Mumbai as managing director.

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Personalmanagement

Produktion

Stalinjose Selvanayagam is New Managing Director

Dr. Boy is picking up on the main themes of K 2022 with two trade show premieres and other specific applications. One of these themes, which Boy has espoused, is the digitalization or increasing networking of the plastics industry.

The diverse elements of the Boy digitalization package.

Hybridtechnik

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

New Control System before the Premiere

How the direct compounding opens up new potential to reduce CO2 footprint – also for smaller components thanks to a further development from KraussMaffei.

DCIM technology enables injection molding and compounding in a single heating process.

Efficiency Meets Sustainability: Systematically Reduce Costs and CO2 Emissions

Extruder

Extrusionsanlagen

Compoundieren

Cost-Effective Direct Compounding for Medium-Sized Components

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag continues to expand all-electric platform and extends its high-speed IntElect S series.

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag releases new mid-size IntElect S high-speed energy-saving range globally. With this, the machine manufacturer is accelerating the global expansion of the IntElect platform, which was developed specifically for high-volume packaging, medical and automotive applications.

Filling an important gap in the mass-manufacturing market, notably thin-wall packaging, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is releasing new sizes within its IntElect S all-electric high-performance injection molding machine range, including medium clamping force (mid-size) machines between 220 and 450 t. Product Manager of the IntElect series Peter Gladigau, emphasizes that with this latest release molders requiring cycle time speeds of between three to 12 seconds now no longer need to compromise on any aspect of productivity, energy efficiency and processing speed and stability.

By expanding the IntElect S series, the company is resolute in its ambition to open up the all-electric molding machine market and the associated benefits to even more product applications, including low part weights and narrow tolerance components. Positioned squarely between the conventional IntElect all-electric series and the new high-speed packaging injection molding machine PAC-E, the IntElect S is geared specifically towards plastic processors mass-manufacturing narrow tolerance and thin-walled components at the fastest speeds.

For High Performance Applications with Short Cycles

“Cycle times of between three and twelve seconds and injection speeds of up to 350 mm/s are the typical range of this machine,“ reports Gladigau. He draws special attention to the resilient, high performance drives, shorter clamp spindles and longer service life. Culminating in faster acceleration of the injection speed to achieve on average a one second cycle time saving when compared to a standard IntElect model.

The IntElect S mid-size range caters specifically to high performance applications with the shortest cycles, high material throughput, which typically consumes more energy affirms Gladigau. “Given the rapid rise in energy prices, counteracting the impact on rising manufacturing costs through higher productivity, processing repeatability and reduced waste is increasingly imperative with regard to competitiveness. For this very reason, market interest in our IntElect S series remains very high,” reports the product manager.

Indicative of the current energy challenges, for packaging applications, the IntElect S can lower energy consumption to between 0.25 to 0.32 kilowatt hours per kilogram, states Gladigau. Citing it as the epitome of mass production efficiency, compared to hybrid machines this increased production capacity combined with saving tens of thousands of euros per year on energy, can result in one of the fastest machine paybacks. Benchmarking dry cycle times on thin wall packaging products with equivalent electric systems on the market, IntElect S remains at the forefront of innovation and energy efficiency, assures Gladigau.

Featuring optimized tool movement, nozzle position, injection and ejector movements and metering speed, the IntElect S model outperforms previous generations of IntElect machines. Increasing the capacity of the IntElect’s braking energy recovery system not only improves energy efficiency but also extends the lifespan of electrical components and capacitators. Verified by extensive machine and part lifecycle durability tests, notes Gladigau. Clamp spindles tested under the hardest conditions showed no evidence of visible wear after millions of cycles. Guaranteeing safe operation of the machine, even in the fastest-cycle applications.

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH 

https://www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu/

IntElect S all-electric high-performance injection molding machine.

2023-01-12 - Sumitomo

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