Plastics and rubber materials have revolutionized many aspects of sports and leisure activities over the years, and technology advances continue to improve safety, comfort, performance and – increasingly – sustainability, in those sectors.
As intelligent industrial manufacturing gains a stronger foothold in production alongside the more established customization/prototyping arenas, Clariant returns to this year’s formnext with new solutions to support the growth.
The specialty chemicals company Evonik and the US start-up for 3D printing technologies NXT Factory, based in Ventura, California, are expanding their partnership in additive manufacturing.
Evonik plans to introduce its broad material portfolio for additive manufacturing for the first time at this year’s formnext tradeshow (to be held November 19-22 in Frankfurt/Main).
A way of making organic polymers from the fragrant molecules in conifers and fruit trees has been developed by scientists at the University of Birmingham.
Digitalisation is opening up new potential for plastic processing. Arburg is presenting a range of solutions at its stand in hall G1, stand number 36 at the MSV trade fair, which is being held in Brno from 7 to 11 October 2019.
New urethanes product platform unveiled at K preview ahead of main launch at K 2019
In recent years, 3D printing has become increasingly important and is now established as a manufacturing technology in both industry and the private sector.
Arburg will be presenting the digital future of plastics processing at Chinaplas in Guangzhou, China. Innovative technologies for digitalisation, injection moulding, automation and additive manufacturing will be on display at stand A41 in hall 5.1.
On 23 May 2019, Arburg Italy will hold its first seminar on "Additive manufacturing in medical technology" at the "Alma Mater Studiorum" University in Bologna.
3D printing is often identified as the game changer in industrial production.
Arburg will present its large Freeformer 300-3X for the first time in America: The new machine for industrial additive manufacturing can be seen from 21 to 23 May 2019 at Rapid + TCT in Detroit (Michigan, USA).
