The development of innovative IoT knowledge and skills and the creation of enabling technologies strategic to Sacmi's growth, yet also the establishment of a true 4.0 innovation hub at the service of the region-wide mechanics, mechatronics and food industries. This, in short, is the mission of Sacmi Innovation Lab 4.0, the facility selected...
The Arburg Technology Days will be held in Lossburg (Germany) from March 13 to 16, 2019. The main focus will be on the "Road to Digitalisation". In this respect, the Efficiency Arena offers an overview of the digital products and services. The Technology Days event was first celebrated in Lossburg in 1999 and is now regarded...
The partnership between Colines and Pantex International proceeds with the delivery, scheduled in spring, of the third cast extrusion line for production of hygienic film. "We chose to reconfirm our confidence in Colines - explained Gianluigi Fornoni, CEO of Pantex International - well conscious that we could count on the best technology and...
Why not rent an injection moulding machine, rather than buy one? CMJ Kunststofftechnik is setting store by the KraussMaffei Rent-it business model. Decisive arguments for renting instead of buying the new all-electric PX 80-380 injection moulding machine were above all the prospect of a machine that is always state-of-the-art, more flexibility in production and...
A new Macchi 5-layer POD line has been delivered in Georgia to a major manufacturer of beverage packaging products. For the company based in Venegono Inferiore (near Varese, Italy) this is the first line of its kind ever delivered in the country. The plant, a 1,800-mm POD 5-layer line, will allow the production of up to...
One year after the publication of the first draft (so-called Release Candidate) for the OPC UA based interface for temperature control devices, the finished specification has now been released by Euromap. Before that, a few adjustments and above all a test of the interface by several manufacturers in different combinations had been made...
Negri Bossi will be present at Mecspe, first Italian event of the year 2019 that will take place in Parma from March 28 to 30. The attendance at this event is testament that the society continues to take an interest in the domestic market. The company will be exhibiting the new machine of platform Nova, the Nova eT 100 tons...
Sacmi will be in New Delhi from February 28 to March 4, 2019 to take part in India Plast, the country's most important plastics fair. Taking centre-stage will be the compression technology with which Sacmi has profoundly innovated the way plastic caps are made thanks to its outstanding performance, quality and control characteristics...
The South Korean market proved to be an important one for Bandera. In 2018, the manufacturer based in Busto Arsizio (Varese, Italy) delivered in the Asian country an extrusion line for the flat die technology, followed by a PVC pelletizing line, and is now going to install a blown film line of the SmartFlex series...
At the end of 2018, Rodolfo Comerio registered an increase in the export of its products both for the rubber and the plastics fields - contrary to the trends of the Italian machinery export for rubber and plastics machinery - marking +3% compared to the total sales volume recorded last year in the same period. This is what the manufacturer stated in a...
Axiom Product Development has recently invested in the purchase of two new Negri Bossi plastic injection moulding machines which will significantly broaden the specialist engineering services that the company can offer both existing and new customers. The two Negri Bossi machines, one 180 tonnes and the other 90 tonnes, will be used to...
When the production of blow moulded industrial items is high, is it better to choose more single-cavity machines, thus multiplying the cost of investment, the floor space and energy consumption, or a multi-cavity machine, which minimizes all these costs, but makes production less flexible? In order to answer this question, ST Blow Moulding designed Aspi...
Established in 2003, MB Spritzgusstechnik in Marktoberdorf (Germany) is an owner-managed company. It develops and produces technically sophisticated injection moulded parts from almost all common thermoplastics and recycled materials. The "passion for plastic" of the founder Michael Bechtel, who has more than...
Minimization of unproductive downtimes is a top priority for injection moulding machine operators, since this is the only way to have the investment in the machine amortized in the shortest possible time. The Wittmann W8 and WX robot generations come with the patented SmartRemoval function as standard, which automatically shortens the time...
Two Geo FutureFilm lines have been supplied by Bandera to a US processor for the production of geomembranes with useful widths of up to 8 m, mainly for applications in the oil and environment protection industries. The supply agreement also covered training of the operators involved in the...
Sipa has unveiled the ECS SP 25, the latest and smallest in its family of injection stretch-blow moulding (ISBM) machines for small and medium-sized production lots. The machine, with a 25-tonne injection clamp force, joins two established family members, the ECS SP 50 and ECS SP 80. All three have four stations, one each for...
The open house held by Colines from December 4 to 6 at its facility in Marano Ticino (Novara, Italy) was a great success, appreciated by all the attendees both under technical and marketing point of view. The event launched the brand-new version of ALLrollEX 3000 mm, our cast extrusion line for the production of stretch film, and aroused interest and...
Omron has announced the global launch of the TM series collaborative robot family to realize an innovative manufacturing environment where humans and machines work in harmony. With the various vision functionalities and the simple, intuitive programming environment of the TM collaborative robots, Omron will further enable safe, flexible, and...
At PlastEurasia 2018 (Istanbul, December 5-8), Negri Bossi launched the Nova series of injection moulding machines on the Turkish market. At the event, the s700T model was shown, featuring an innovative toggle system, the FMC (Foam Microcellular Moulding Process) technology, and Sytrama automation. The machine produced...
