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Helpful in choosing the right lubricant for PVC is the Hildebrand solubility parameter. For many lubricants, values are now available for the first time.

16:9

PVC-Additive

Polyvinylchlorid

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Standardkunststoffe

Gleitmittel für Kunststoff

Additive

An Attempt to Quantify the Compatibility of Lubricants for PVC

This year, Formnext spotlighted a wide-ranging array of cutting-edge additive manufacturing solutions and world firsts across industries.

Many Formnext exhibitors provided surprises this year, with visitors to various booths (Stratasys pictured) able to see world premieres unpacked live.

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, Kunststoff

Ehrhardt, Melanie

Additive Fertigung

Werkstoffe für additive Verfahren

Showcasing Global Debuts and Marvels

The company Impetus investigated whether additive manufacturing with shape memory polymers loses their memory effect.

Spritzgießen

Testing Shape Memory Polymers

CMF technology is changing the map of metal 3D printing and paving the way for an exciting future in metal fabrication.

Green part impeller: The production of the green part is the first step in the CMF process.

The Best of Two Worlds

Formnext 2023: Setting course for a more productive, sustainable industrial future with pioneering AM technologies.

Formnext 2023 took place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from November 7 to 10, 2023.

Filamente für additive Verfahren

“Formnext 2023 Offered a Unique Trade Fair Experience“

Loadable suction pads and mechanical grippers made of fiber-reinforced PA and PP with individualized fingers for picking up components, mounted on robot arms, will be on show in Frankfurt.

Die 3D-Drucker der Baureihen TiQ und LiQ von InnovatiQ sind prädestiniert für die Verarbeitung von faserverstärkten Filamenten und Standardsilikonen.

Arburg Presents Series for Fiber-Reinforced Filaments

Henkel will introduce four new products to its growing portfolio of photopolymer resins for 3D Printing at Formnext 2023 in Frankfurt.

Four at One Stroke

The precisionPrint combines stereolithography with industrial efficiency. For this purpose, KraussMaffei has deliberately incorporated customer experience into the further technical development of the printer in addition to its own many years of expertise and is now introducing this evolution at Formnext.

The precisionPrint stereolithography 3D printer shows multilaser-technology for series production.

KraussMaffei Shows Multilaser-Technology for Series Production

Evonik introduces the world’s first carbon-fiber reinforced PEEK filament for long-term 3D printed medical implants.

Vestakeep filament with 12% or 20% carbon-fiber content for adaptability to requirements of implants.

Medizintechnik (KU)

New Possibilities in Medical Technology

Material composition in view: Compounder Akro-Plastic has developed a method for quantifying warpage in additive manufacturing.

3D printed: Friederike Schwartz and Michael Rieck from Akro-Plastic checking the quality of a part made of a flame-retardant compound.

Compounder Acro-Plastic explains how fiber reinforcement can help.

Polyamide

Polypropylen-Compound

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Compoundieren

Staying Grounded

The Polymer-Lab of TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences investigates whether filament-based mold inserts are applicable in practice or not.

Master mold with 3D-printed insert for the production of LSR test specimens.

Rapid Prototyping

3D-Printed Mold Inserts Put to the Test

Männer: The first steps towards automatically designing a flow-optimized flow-channel geometry by additive manufacturing of the hot runner manifold block.

Six-cavity mold with naturally balanced three-in-a-row layout instead of the conventional double-Y layout.

Heißkanalsysteme

Three-Dimensional Melt Flow System in the Hot Runner Manifold Block

Researchers on the CAMed project being conducted by the Medical University of Graz are working on producing custom implants in the hospital using 3D printers.

The 3D-printed rib made of PCU possesses the necessary stiffness and fit for insertion directly into the chest cavity.

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Qualitätsmanagement

Medizintechnik

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Medizinprodukte

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

Bone Implants Straight from  the Hospital’s Printer

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

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Hot Runner, Carbon Neutral

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

Mess-, Steuer- und Regelgeräte

Temperaturregler

Everything under Control

To an increasing extent, additive manufacturing is finding its way into series production. This was clearly shown at last year’s Formnext.

T-Crow night vision camera: except for the electronic components, the entire stand is produced additively. 

Polyetherketon

Anlagen für die Additive Fertigung

Streifinger, Florian

3D-Druck-Anlage, pulverbettbasiert, Metall

3D-Drucker (für FDM, FFF, etc.)

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Print-Ready for Series Production

Greater sustainability in laser sintering: how recyclable powder mixtures make more efficient material use.

Improved mechanical properties of PA12 parts as a result of closing the laser-sintering material loop.

Efficient Use of Materials through Recyclable Powder Mixtures

Selektives Lasersintern von Kunststoff, Metall, Keramik

Kreislaufwirtschaft

On the Road to a Circular Economy

Form Auto, Fleet Control Software, and High Volume Resin System enables users to increase 3D printing output, reducing cost per part without adding operational complexity.

CES 2023: Formlabs introduces Automation Ecosystem to enable automated 3D printer fleets.

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

Automatisierungskomponenten

Automatisierungstechnik

Formlabs Introduces Automation Ecosystem

At the Institute of Polymer Materials and Plastics Technology at the Technical University of Clausthal the requirements of the process were investigated, especially with regard to the necessary preparations and conditions of the plant periphery.

Extrusion of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polyetheretherketone (PEEK)

Extrusion of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polyetheretherketone

Faser- und Filamentextrusion

Manufacture of FFF-Filaments

To ensure that a camera tripod remains attractive and universally useful, an ability to make quick adjustments is hugely important – this is the perfect scenario for 3D printing.

T-Crow is a practical and convenient way to capture images of living creatures and wildlife from inside a vehicle.

To ensure that a tripod remains attractive and universally useful, an ability to make quick adjustments is hugely important – this is the perfect scenario for 3D printing.

 Series Production thanks to a Combination of SLA and SLS

Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

360° Vision in the Dark

With the Formiga P 110 FDR polymer system, extremely fine and yet stable components can be realized.

EOS Introduced New FDR System

With the introduction of the first additively manufactured one-piece Monolith hot runner nozzle in 2021, Witosa GmbH achieved a great technical advance for the plastic industry.

Witosa presents energy-efficient and additively manufactured hot runner technology.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Heißkanaltechnik

3D-Printed Nozzles in Many Versions

Textile structures can be equipped with shape-changing properties at all stages of their production. So-called 4D textiles are created.

4D materials are ideal for personalized medical technology such as orthoses.

Formverändernde Textilien, sogenannte 4D-Textilien, bieten beispielsweise für die Medizintechnik große Vorteile. Herstellen lassen sie sich mittels FDM-Druck.

From Static to Adaptive Products with 4D Textiles

Polylactid

Into the Fourth Dimension  with 3D Printing

The temperature management of formative manufacturing processes has a significant effect on the mechanical material properties of some semi-crystalline thermoplastics.

Increasing the degree of crystallization and improving the mechanical properties of 3D-printed PEEK tensile specimens (right) by post-heat treatment in a high-temperature furnace (left).

Bei im FFF-Druck hergestellten Bauteilen ist der Kristallisationsgrad relativ niedrig. Durch Wärmenachbehandlung lassen sich die Bauteile jedoch optimieren.