The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin. This was the prestigious venue chosen by Böhler to celebrate, on October 20, its 125 years of business in Italy, and it did so with an event entitled “Life in Plastic - Böhler’s innovative technology in high-performance moulds for plastic materials”. The development of steels to be used in...
The X20 I/O series by B&R has been enhanced with two new analog input modules that can be used to digitalise signals from strain gauges: the X20AIA744 with 2 full-bridge strain gauge inputs and the X20AIB744 with 4 full-bridge strain gauge inputs. Up to 4 strain gauge channels can now be housed in a module just as thin as...
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"New areas of application are bringing double-digit growth to silicone processing around the world. It's only logical that we offer our customers efficient solutions for the processing of this material," explains Hans Ulrich Golz, managing director of KraussMaffei and president of the Injection Moulding Machinery segment of the KraussMaffei Group...
This motto, chosen by Engel to present their system solutions at Fakuma 2015, encompasses numerous topics. Automation, engineering, process optimization and services are all considered to be an integral part of the Austrian multi-national's construction philosophy. Through five innovative applications for the automobile, technical moulding, teletronics...
Cogeneration is confirmed as a technology that is attentive to consumption and the environment, and ideal in a segment such as processing of plastics for haute parfumerie and luxury cosmetics. Matic Plast Milano has chosen to adopt an environmental policy when it comes to energy efficiency, and has entrusted AB in the context of rationalising use of...
Technology to be demonstrated, touched, and experienced. Direct, immediate contact with innovation, anywhere in the world. All this happens in over 18,000 square metres of Biesse showrooms worldwide, thanks to an extensive network of branches. Within this now boundless space, more than 7,000 live demos per year demonstrate the true potential of our...
At the Fakuma trade fair, from October 13 to 17, Kistler launched its new ComoNeo process monitoring system. For many years, Kistler’s innovative solutions to enhance process reliability in injection moulding have ensured the firm’s leading position in...
On this year’s Fakuma edition the German company Leistritz Extrusionstechnik not only presented the new ZSE 27 iMAXX twin-screw extruder, but visitors also got the opportunity of gaining an insight - through a virtual tour - into a large-scale compounding plant. When it comes to developing new formulations and...
Among the different products developed through its R&D activity, Frigosystem presents the I-RES and I-RESW systems: the new range of water and air condensed fluid chillers using centrifugal compressors with magnetic levitation. The new I-RES systems represent one of the most efficient and...
With SmartPower 350, on show at Fakuma trade fair in hall B1, stand 1204, Wittmann Battenfeld has completed its PowerSeries product range with the larger sizes from 160 to 350 tons. The SmartPower is equipped as standard with an extremely energy-efficient, innovative servo hydraulic drive, which stands out by its high dynamism and low noise level. Moreover, the drive technology of the SmartPower makes it...
The ADV200-LC (Liquid Cooled) is the new series of liquid-cooled inverters designed and produced by Gefran for applications in which the most important requirements are: robustness, long life and high reliability. Liquid cooling of electrical and mechanical units drastically reduces the size of the...
The Easylink new automatic coupling stations, the Modula high efficiency auto-adaptive drying systems, the PureFlo simple filterless receivers, the Quantum next generation gravimetric blenders are among the Piovan’s products on display this...
The House of Extrusion, Bandera’s new R&D Centre in Busto Arsizio (near Varese), hosted an open house on 6 and 7 October to demonstrate operation of the BarrierFlex 7-layer line producing high-barrier film in polypropylene with a PP/Tie/PA/EVOH/PA/Tie/PP structure. The final application of the...
A member of the Tecnopol group, Omikron manufactures polypropylene-based, loaded and non-loaded top-quality compounds, used for a range of specific purposes. The Piedmont-based company is well known for its constant pursuit of quality across the production process. With the aim of rationalising and expanding its plant, Omikron decided to develop the pneumatic handling system used for both natural and loaded plastic...
Since August 2015, Amut Group confirms the establishment of new technical service points in Vietnam and Indonesia, boosting and consolidating a complete onsite support to the existing and potential customers. This strategy has been followed because of the great results always achieved in the extrusion and thermoforming field in
BMB is going to exhibit at Fakuma (Friedrichshafen, October 13-17) an eKW28Pi/1300 fast cycle full electric machine that represents its complete range of highly efficient and low consuming presses. The company is going to showcase a 280-t machine together with a 4-cavity mould...
On the first of October Piovan is organizing its Pipe & Profile Day at its head offices in Santa Maria di Sala, near Venice, a day entirely dedicated to the technology involved in the production of pipes and profiles. The event will be divided into three sessions during which talks will be by certain partners and associated companies...
The aims of Tec Med - Integrated technology for medical appliances, which took place on September 24 and 25 by Engel Italia and A Uno Tec, at the head offices of the same at Mirandola, near Modena, were to provide an insight into the production processing, share common efficiency goals for the improvement of the quality of operation...
The first “Food & Beverage Plastic Day” took place on September 15 at the head offices of Sacmi in Imola (Bologna), organized by the manufacturer in order to introduce its plants and technological solutions aimed at assuring high productivity, versatility and energy savings for the beverage industry. Capable of integrating the entire process from...
