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KraussMaffei is the second injection molder manufacturer to enter the field of additive manufacturing. Will that work out?

 Michael Helneder, Head of Customer Success Additive Manufacturing 

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Interview with Michael Helneder from KraussMaffei

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

Ehrhardt, Melanie

Additive Fertigung

“Everything Is Aimed at  Series Production”

Anybrid from Dresden makes light, mobile and flexible injection-molding machines. The start-up combines the disciplines of plastics technology and lightweight construction in a way it says has never been imagined before.

Founders from left to right: Michael Stegelmann, Michael Krahl, Tony Weber and Jan Luft

Spritzgießen

Leichtbau

Start up

“Mobile Injection Molding Needs Time to Mature”

Interview with David Katz, Founder of Plastic Bank

Plastic Bank promotes recycling in developing countries, thereby combating poverty.

Umweltmanagement

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kreislaufwirtschaft

“We Must Show that Circularity Benefits Everyone“

At the end of the K trade fair, Kunststoffe put a few questions to some well-known “industry heads.

Ingemar Bühler, PlasticsEurope: “I sense a strong commitment to the circular economy. These are people on a mission.”

Industry representatives about the positive mood despite the crises and the willingness to cooperate in terms of the circular economy or machine communications.

Closing Thoughts on K 2022

Strategie und Organisation

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Schröder, Susanne

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

“Motivated to the Hilt”

New Plastic Heroes: The start-up ForPET worked with industry partners to develop a technology for the production of foamed rPET.

Sergey Nikitenko (in the photo) founded the start-up in 2021 with Mikhail Iakobachvili and Dmitrii Rastorguev. 

ForPET worked with industry partners to develop a technology for the production of foamed rPET.

New Plastic Heroes: ForPET

Recycling

Polyethylenterephthalat

Verpackungstechnik

Recycling: Foaming instead  of Dreaming

The injection molding machine manufacturer Arburg and the simulation software supplier Simcon presented the first filling simulation directly on the injection molding machine three years ago.

The new tool works on any Arburg injection molding machine with Gestica control.

Exclusive Interview with Werner Faulhaber of Arburg and Paul Filz of Simcon

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Spritzgießsimulation

“We Tear down Walls”

The pathways to plastics can be many – even metalworking in the case of AIM3D. That is what first got this start-up up and running. Fast forward to now and the young Rostock company can cover both bases.

Versatile: the 3D printer developed by this young company can process virtually all fusible materials.

3D-Drucker (für FDM, FFF, etc.)

When We Break through  Material Boundaries

Interview with Dr. Ralf Düssel, Chairman of plastics producers’ association PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V.

Dr. Ralf Düssel, Chairman of PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V.

Nachhaltigkeit

“Mechanical and Chemical Recycling are Complementary“

You‘re spoiled for choice. This also applies when you’re seeking out a suitable recyclate. As a start-up, Plastship supports companies in this venture, aided by digitalization along the way.

Konstantin Humm (left) and Andreas Bastian (right) founded the start-up four years ago and now serve over 800 customers.

„We Want to Simplify the Use  of Recyclates“

Interview with Korbinian Kiesl, President of Billion SAS

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

“In difficult economic times, recycling is a reason to invest”

“Future of the Circular Economy: Chemical Recycling as a Building Block” – this was the slogan of the round-table discussion held within IFAT at the invitation of the Association of the Chemical Industry (VCI).

Podium Discussion at IFAT 2022

Verpackungsmittel aus Kunststoffen

“The Combination of Mechanical and Chemical Recycling Is Unbeatable”

VDMA series Way2K: Interview with Joachim Oberbauer, Sales Manager Film Extrusion at Hosokawa Alpine AG

Blown film line: MDO technology is based on monoaxial film stretching and opens up the possibility of improving properties of the end product.

VDMA series Way2K: Interview with Joachim Oberbauer Hosokawa Alpine AG )

Blasfolienextrusion

Folien

The Use of Recyclates is Increasing

VDMA Way2K: Industry Interview with Achim Ebel, Vice President Sales bei der Herbold Meckesheim GmbH

Achim Ebel: „If waste management does not work, then no recycling structure will develop. “

VDMA Way2K: Industry Interview with Achim Ebel (Herbold Meckesheim)

„Policy Provisions Need to be Reviewed“

Way2K: Interview with Jan Hendrik Ostgathe, Managing Director of Kreyenborg GmbH & Co. KG

Jan Hendrik Ostgathe, Managing Director of Kreyenborg GmbH & Co.

“In the Circular Economy, We Generate Impulses for Each Other” 

Way2K: Industry interviews in the lead-up to the K trade show 2022

View into the technical center of the machine manufacturer.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Extrusionsanlagen

„We Help to Avoid Waste“

This year, for the first time, the SKZ is organizing the conference „Plastic Films in Mobility“. Kunststoffe international asked Dirk Pophusen, the conference director, about the new features and the highlights of the event.

The front module of the BMW iX is a highly integrated component. Among other things, foil technology is used for the manufacturing.

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

Streifinger, Florian

Films, BMW and China

In the lead-up to K 2022, the trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry in Düsseldorf, Germany, Markus Gschwandtner, CEO of Brückner Servtec GmbH, talks about the advantages of digitalization for predictive maintenance and for the circular economy.

On the digital service platform the documentation is available online at any time.

Way2K: Interview between VDMA and Markus Gschwandtner

Instandhaltung

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Vorbeugende Instandhaltung für die Qualitätssicherung

The Possibilities of  Cross-Company Digitalization

Sorting plays a crucial role in the processing of plastic waste. Systems based on artificial intelligence are one way of improving this. Sorting systems manufacturer Tomra has recently presented corresponding technologies. Kunststoffe spoke about this with Felix Flemming and Valerio Sama from Tomra. In the interview, they explain what progress can be made with it, how important digitalization is for this and what improvements it means for food packaging.

Interview on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Waste Sorting

Deep Learning

Machine Learning / Künstliche Intelligenz für die spanende Fertigung

“AI Has Great Potential for  Sorting Food Packaging”

Over the last year, the German branch of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers, PlasticsEurope Deutschland, consistently advocated the technology of chemical recycling. Meanwhile, chemical recycling has not only been criticized by environmental organizations but also from parts of the industry. Kunststoffe interviewed Ingemar Bühler, CEO of the Association, about this criticism and the competition between mechanical and chemical recycling. In the interview, Bühler also addresses further requirements for a circular economy with plastics and explains why he considers a label for plastics products a sensible idea.

Interview with Ingemar Bühler from PlasticsEurope Deutschland

“There’s No Point in Arguing over Chemical versus Mechanical Recycling”

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.

Digitale Transformation

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

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

Interview with Thorsten Kühmann, Managing Director of Plastics and Rubber Machinery within the VDMA, and Ingemar Bühler, Chief Executive Officer of PlasticsEurope Deutschland.

 Digitalization makes the value chain more transparent, processes can be controlled more easily

“Digitalization Will Make Products Transparent”

The latest trend in digitization  is the Artificial Intelligence of Things. It amounts to “marrying” Artificial Intelligence with the Internet of Things. In the following interview, Martin Dimmler and Martin Rugfelt discuss how companies can profit from AIoT and what plastics manufacturers can learn from its pioneers in other industries.

Where Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is used, value-adding opportunities for more efficiency, quality, and thus higher sales can be realized in every industry

Artificial Intelligence of Things: Trends and Models for the Plastics Industry

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Qualitätssicherung

Vernetzung / Cloudlösung für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

IoT-Plattformen für die Qualitätssicherung

Fernwartung / Ferndiagnose

Produkt- / anbieterspezifische Automatisierung

Energieeffizienz

Fertigungsautomation

Automatisierungstechnik

Datenanalyse

IoT-Plattformen für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

“Intelligent Automation Brings Systems Closer to their Optimum”

The plastics industry is currently struggling to raise its profile with positive headlines. The Kunststoffe editorial team discussed the present status of the plastics industry with representatives from industry, universities, and trade associations. Besides topics such as recycling and sustainability, the main focus was on recruiting young talent and the image issue.

Educational Work between Political Demands and Corporate Objectives

“Plastics Experts are the Solution –  Not the Problem!”

In its latest investment, the Röchling Group is channeling EUR 50 million into the medical technology sector. In an interview with Kunststoffe, Chairman of the Board, Prof. Dr. Hanns-Peter Knaebel, and Medical Division CEO, Dr. Boris Fröhlich, report on the challenges of cleanroom extrusion, quickfire solutions at a time of pandemic, and creating a home for bats.

Prof. Hanns-Peter Knaebel (left) and Dr. Boris Fröhlich

It Is Not Components but Complete Solutions that Are in Demand

Medizintechnik

“The Future Does Not Lie in  Plastics Alone”

In this interview with Kunststoffe, Alfred Stern, CEO of Borealis, explains why he considers fixed recycling quotas to be necessary and why voluntary commitments do not work.

Together with Tomra and Zimmermann Recycling, Borealis has built a demonstration plant in Lahnstein. According to its own information, the most modern plant for mechanical recycling is intended to show what is possible with modern technology and equipment in a state-of-the-art plant for mechanical recycling