As international crude oil prices fluctuate and environmental awareness rises, recycling rates of plastic waste have become the most important issue in the future of the plastics and rubber industry.
The Arburg Technology Days have been a unique and firmly established event in the international world of plastics since 1999. In 2020, due to the coronavirus and with significant foresight at the time, Arburg cancelled the event to avoid exposing visitors and employees to risk.
As a branch of Akro-Plastic GmbH, BIO-FED is the specialist for innovative and application-oriented biocompounds. The product portfolio under the trade name M·Vera is constantly being expanded with new products.
With the presentation of six interesting applications, the manufacturer of injection moulding machines with clamping forces of up to 1250 kN will present its innovative performance diversity.
Powerful, dynamic, sustainable: Designed for continuous high performance in the packaging industry, Engel e-speed injection moulding machines are the most energy efficient and clean hybrid machines in the market.
On the occasion of Engel live e-xperience from 13th to 16th October 2020, Engel is expanding the application spectrum of its Condition Monitoring solution.
With the 100th injection molding machine, KraussMaffei is delivering a special machine to a special customer – Polycom, a family-run company founded 35 years ago by two brothers, which has established itself as a leading plastic processor for the automotive component supplier industry.
Since the Fakuma 2020 has been postponed to next year, Wittmann has now decided to present the exhibits originally planned for the Fakuma together with some other interesting applications by way of product videos, and to upload them on “Virtual Fakuma”.
For the market launch of its new micro-injection unit for liquid silicone rubber at Engel live e-xperience from 13th to 16th October 2020, Engel is producing the smallest precision components for the field of ophthalmology with an individual part weight of 0.0013 grams.
Domo Chemicals has expanded its Thermec range of enhanced polymers, with the introduction of a cost-efficient product based on polyether ether ketone (PEEK), blended with a solid polymeric lubricant.
The incremental gain in capacity will help to reduce global lead times for manufacturers of high-performance copper-clad laminates (CCLs), which can provide them greater flexibility to meet customer requests for quick turnarounds.
Compared with the first half of 2019, injection moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is ending the first half of 2020 with a healthy order book. During the first six months, the value of incoming orders for machines produced in Germany rose by almost 25 percent.