Sidel has launched an interactive tool for estimating cost savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved through PET packaging optimisation. The application takes into account bottle design changes, labelling and the use of recycled PET, among other factors.
Roemheld will showcase several set-up time and safety innovations for sheet metal forming at Blechexpo 2025. Highlights include the R-MAG-M magnetic clamping system with force display and replaceable poles, new electric tool trolleys up to 4,000 kg, and the Flexline-R quick-clamping system.
The most modern injection moulding and extrusion machines, the latest raw materials and services from all over the world, discussions about the challenges facing the plastics and rubber processing industry from 21 to 24 May at Targi Kielce.
K.D. Feddersen Holding GmbH concluded a cooperation agreement with Toolplace GmbH. Toolplace offers digital solutions for the procurement of injection moulding tools that complement the Feddersen Group's portfolio.
Among economies such as Germany or Portugal, Poland is a domineering European producer of tools for processing of plastics used in many sectors. None of these sectors could function without high quality tools.
Around 700 exhibitors at Moulding Expo 2019 in Stuttgart and the international participation is higher than ever.
Hasco - supplier of modular standard mould units and accessories - will present numerous interesting innovations for mould and tool manufacture at the upcoming Fakuma trade show in Friedrichshafen.
The focus of i-mold's presentation at Fakuma 2018 will be on a varied range of space-saving tunnel gate inserts, fast high-precision servo motor drives for turntables and indexing plates as used in multicomponent injection molding, and particularly rugged hot runner nozzles.
The German Witte Automotive Group manufactures in its Czech production plants in Nejdek and Ostrov large quantities of mechatronic lock modules for passenger car doors and trunk lids. To make these components, Witte has been relying on Wittmann Battenfeld injection molding machines with vertical rotary table clamping units for more than 15 years.
Drastically reduced cycle times and processes ready for large-scale production. Developing new technologies and applications for the fiber-reinforced lightweight construction of tomorrow is front and center at the Composite Centre of the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in the United Kingdom.
As part of the “Innovations on Tour” series, Hasco paid a visit to cooperation partners Arburg, presenting its range of services for standards and hot runner technology.
Advances in mould and temperature control technology have resulted in a continuous reduction in cooling times and significantly higher throughput. The required melting capacities are often not achieved with conventional three-zone screws. A double flighted screw newly developed by Engel Austria achieves this performance boost.
