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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, Schwaig/Germany and its Chinese subsidiary Demag Plastics Machinery (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. will be exhibiting at the Chinaplas 2012 a total of five machines, including two models of its Systec C all-purpose machine from Chinese production. 
The coupling between the fiber orientation and the melt viscosity in an expanded rheological model of Sigmasoft, makes possible an even more accurate prediction of the cavity filling, the final orientation and the part mechanical behavior of highly-filled polymers.
Husky’s next generation HyCAP system allows for faster cycles and improves energy utilization. 
With immediate effect, Engel is delivering full systems for MuCell foam injection moulding on a turnkey basis world-wide, thereby covering the entire physical foaming process chain from a single source. The relevant agreement was signed by Engel Austria and Trexel, Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. 
Fanuc Robomachine Europe will be demonstrating three of its electric Roboshot injection moulding machines (IMM), series S-2000iB, at Fakuma 2011. 
DuPont launches innovative In Mold Hold Press technology, a new principle aimed at increasing molding productivity by decreasing cycle times. 
High performance injection molding is like racing: fast laps can be made only by those who previously extensively tested and optimized. 
The German company Maximator GmbH and the British Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement in which Cinpres grants Maximator the licensing rights for Europe. In future, Maximator will be able to sublicense all of Cinpres’ technology. 
The Chair of Lightweight Structures and Plastics Processing at the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany is taking a new approach to combining process technologies in the manufacturing of fibre-compound structural components. 
Beck Automation, Oberengstringen (CH), held back with a true speciality for Fakuma 2009: For the first time Beck labels a transparent polystyrene (PS) thin wall cup. 3,3 seconds cycle time per shot for 4 cups is the measuring rod set by the IML automations experts from Switzerland. 
