At the beginning of July, Wittmann Battenfeld Deutschland opened its expanded and redesigned application technology center at its Nuremberg site with a customer event. With this investment, the Wittmann Group is now offering its customers and partners in Germany even more opportunities to get to know and try out innovative products and technologies in a tangible and practical way. The thematic focus of the expanded range is on energy efficiency and the circular economy.
Sustainable, efficient, economical - at the opening of the new technical center in Nuremberg, Wittmann is presenting itself as a reliable partner for greater competitiveness in the rapidly changing injection molding industry. "Reducing the CO2 foot-print is an absolute necessity. Measures to increase energy efficiency and sustainability only have a chance if they also pay off economically," emphas Andreas Schramm, Managing Director of the German subsidiary of the Austrian Wittmann Group. "This is exactly what our developers have firmly in mind. In our new technical center, economic sustainability can be experienced directly."
Exhibits covering the entire product range
The capacities in the technical center are available to all customers of the Wittmann Group - for individual presentations, joint development work, technical application consulting, material and mold trials as well as factory acceptance tests.
Two large injection molding production cells are located in the technical center, whereby the applications presented will change frequently. A servo-hydraulic SmartPower and an all-electric EcoPower injection molding machine will be the first to produce guest gifts on the opening day. Both applications show how easy it is to exploit the potential for CO2 savings. Among other things, the high energy efficiency of the machines, digital assistance systems and the processing of recycled materials contribute to this.
The advantages of complete solutions from a single source also become clear. “With complete solutions, we can precisely coordinate all components of the production cell right from the start and thus exploit efficiency and quality potential particularly well,” says Schramm. "The Wittmann Group offers solutions from its own development and production across the entire production process - from material preparation, injection molding, temperature control and automation to inline recycling and the integration of digital solutions. Only Wittmann can do this in this depth."
Other exhibits in the new technical center will present innovations from the areas of mold temperature control, peripherals, automation, recyclate processing and 4.0 networking. These include smart recycling packages, the Expert MouldTemp assistance system, the WX90 servo removal unit and the Feedmax Clean conveyor unit with integrated dedusting.
New information corner for partner presentations
The thematic focus of the exhibition is reflected in the lecture program. Wittmann was able to attract renowned external speakers for the opening day. The speakers came from the companies WildPlastic, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung, Kontron Leipzig and Schlaeger Kunststofftechnik.
Guests at the opening ceremony will also notice the new, attractive seating area in the technical center, which is more than just a quiet place to have a coffee with customers or move project discussions to the technical center. “We make this information corner available to our customers and partners,” says Schramm. “We offer an appealing atmosphere, top equipment and state-of-the-art presentation facilities - for example for product presentations or events, whether for a day or an entire week.”
Looking ahead to the K 2025
The Wittmann Group has two locations in Germany - the second location in addition to Nuremberg is Meinerzhagen. The customer technology center there was expanded and technologically upgraded two years ago. The entire product range of the Wittmann Group can now be experienced live at both locations, with the technologies presented complementing each other very well. One focus in Meinerzhagen, for example, is Cellmould lightweight technology, which is available on several machines there.
“We are looking positively to the future and expect K 2025 in particular to provide new impetus,” says Andreas Schramm. “The guests at our technical center opening can already take away one or another preview of our K innovations from the opening day.”
