Due to the ongoing situation surrounding the new Corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) and its adverse effects on daily life and business, KraussMaffei does opt against the familiar and usual active participation in Fakuma 2020 trade fair – should the event take place.
Fröbel, domiciled in Blaufelden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, has developed a high-quality community mask for the fight against COVID-19 together with its partner company AKO Kunststoffe Alfred Kolb GmbH in Hoffenheim.
The demand for test swabs for nasal and throat swab tests will continue to grow strongly due to Covid 19. Injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel Austria and Hack Formenbau are jointly committed to ensuring the global supply of test swabs.
Introduced in early 2020, FLEXflow Evo is an advancement of the FLEXflow technology for servo-electrically driven valve gate systems from HRSflow, which had revolutionized sequential injection molding.
Stork Plastics Machinery BV (Stork IMM) has signed an agreement with Chudleigh Sutch to distribute their range of injection moulding machines in North and South America.
FT-TEC, domiciled in Neutal, specializes in the development and production of high-tech solutions for the automotive industry, railway engineering and the security sector.
Engel is committed to greater sustainability of plastic packaging. In collaboration with six other companies from the Austrian packaging industry, the injection moulding machine manufacturer founded the "Verpackung mit Zukunft” (Packaging with a Future) platform.
Oldrati, based in Villongo, Italy, uses its expertise in manufacturing full-face snorkeling masks for the fight against COVID-19. For several weeks now, this company has been producing high-quality respiratory masks for use in hospitals.
Together with business partner Haidlmair, Engel is committed to improving the supply of face masks worldwide.
As of 1 April 2020, PlastiKCs is nowactively selling Sumitomo (SHI) Demag injection moulding machines, as well as robotic systems and peripheral equipment for plastics processing companies in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Happ is a well-known manufacturer of parts and assemblies for the automotive industry based in Ruppichteroth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Romain Reyre and Arthur van Dijk are the new managing directors in injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel’s international sales network. Romain Reyre will be in charge of the sales and service subsidiary in France, while Arthur van Dijk is joining Engel Benelux.
bv, based in Altenmarkt on the river Triesting, Lower Austria, has been supplying high-grade plastic parts and assemblies to a wide range of different industries for decades.
The Swiss specialty chemicals group Ems-Chemie, the German safety eyewear manufacturer Uvex and plastics machinery manufacturer Arburg have been thinking about how they can provide quick help to rescue services, hospitals and medical personnel in the current situation.
In a recent roundtable, Nanofabrica invited interested parties to discuss ways in which its one-micron resolution additive manufacturing technology (with a 5 x 5 x 10 cm build volume) could be harnessed to create speedy, innovative devices to work against COVID 19.
