Wittmann Presents New Developments One of the highlights is the company’s first vertical injection molding machine VPower designed by PowerSeries. VPower is ergonomically designed with a low working height and high energy efficiency. The machine’s large rotary table is driven by a standard servo motor drive. The machine is flexible because the injection point can…

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Arburg Pves The Way To The ‘Digital Road’ At the exhibition, Arburg’s booth area is 1,240 square meters, and the theme of the exhibition is “Digital Road”, which provides visitors with the opportunity to experience future injection molding. At the press conference of Arburg, the company management team spokesperson and director Michael Hehl explained that…

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Fakuma 2018, BASF Will Showcase The Latest PPA Products Following the launch of the Ultramid Advanced N series, BASF launched another series of polyphthalamides (PPA) at the FLASTMA exhibition: Ultramid Advanced T1000 – a new range of compounds based on polyamide 6T/6I . In the Ultramid range, the Ultramid Advanced T1000 series offers high strength…

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Recycling And Green Materials Have Broad Prospects Due to the concern of the circular economy, recycling and green materials are also rapidly developing throughout the plastics industry. Especially in the field of plastics processing, the demand for recycling is huge. In terms of materials, biodegradable and bio-based materials have become a hot topic in the…

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Demand For Lightweight Solutions Is Strong New materials such as foams and composites are also booming due to their high product stability and light weight. Lightweight materials also reduce production, transportation and fuel costs. Visitors to the Fakuma show can see how automotive body parts and consumer goods are economically produced using lightweight materials. In…

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Fakuma 2018, A Technology Feast For A Plastic Processing Value Chain The Fakuma 2018 exhibition will bring together about 1,900 well-known exhibitors to showcase modern solutions for high quality plastics processing in Friedrichshafen, Germany from October 16th to 20th, 2018. Innovation and advanced technology in the entire value chain of the plastics industry will also…

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Plastics Will Be The Single Important Factor Driving Oil Growth Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, recently pointed out in an interview with CNBC that petrochemical products such as plastics will become the most important factor driving demand for oil in the future. “Every time we discuss oil demand, peak oil demand,…

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Americhem Expands Medical Pre-Coloring Engineering Plastic Product Line Americhem is expanding its supply of pre-colored engineering plastics ColorRx® for medical applications, adding PC/ABS alloys and PC/polyester alloys. The PC/polyester alloy has higher chemical resistance than standard PC/polyester alloys. Americhem modified engineering plastics provide comprehensive support testing for biocompatibility and chemical resistance. All products in the…

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Yizumi 2018 Technology Exchange Summit Ended Successfully At the Yizumi 2018 Technology Exchange Summit, a number of technical coffee and business leaders from Central Europe brought their sharing. Dr. Hans Wobbe, Chief Strategy Officer of Yizumi, gave a speech entitled “Global Trends and Impacts on Industrial Production and Injection Molding”. Dr. Wobbe pointed out that…

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Borealis And Bockatech Team Up To Develop Foam Injection Molding Solutions Borealis recently announced the formation of a new strategic alliance with Bockatech, a UK startup green technology company. It is reported that Bockatech’s EcoCore technology combined with Borealis’ BH381MO grade and Daploy WB140HMS grade can produce lightweight foam injection molding solutions. This is an…

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