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Digitalisation increases production efficiency
As an industry pioneer, Arburg works intensively and practically with the question of how to use digitalisation to increase production efficiency when processing plastics.
Official launch for Fakuma-Virtual
The Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing has been officially launched on its new digital trade fair platform, namely Fakuma-Virtual.
Smart load carriers for transparent logistics
As the digital transformation process advances, load carriers and transport packaging are also becoming increasingly smarter. They are evolving from mere transport containers to cyber-physical objects that communicate with superordinate IT systems.
Soft feel and friendly to the skin with biocompatible TPE
Nerivio, a novel wireless neuromodulation wearable from Theranica for drug-free acute treatment of migraine, features an electronic housing molded in a Thermolast M custom-colored medical-grade thermoplastic elastomer compound from Kraiburg TPE.
New control technology brings greater process efficiency
Coperion K-Tron is pleased to introduce the newest generation of the time-tested KCM feeder controller.
Experience Sikora “On tour”
Live presentation of the optical inspection and analysis system Purity Concept V
Evaluating Capex and Opex for your next PET packaging line for edible oil?
Today, edible oil is a very competitive market category, essentially driven by product and brand differentiation as well as competitiveness through packaging cost savings, production efficiency and permanent asset optimisation.
Kiefel strengthens its management
Kiefel GmbH, member of the Brückner Group and market-leading engineering company for plastics processing, is reinforcing its management.
Tomra Recycling celebrates digital launch of its latest and most advanced sorting solutions
Today marked the global launch of Tomra Sorting Recycling’s latest advanced sorting solutions to meet demand for faster, more efficient and smarter material sorting – both now and in the future.
Serialization: Syntegon joins Open-Scs Group
Syntegon Technology recently joined the Open-Scs Group. Joint goals include the fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the establishment of interoperable interfaces for the implementation of adequate serialization solutions.
maXYmos from Kistler: making quality assurance easier for medical device manufacturers
maXYmos TL ML from Kistler is the first process monitoring system that meets the strict regulatory requirements for quality assurance in the medtech sector.
Virtual #FAT and #SAT, ensuring continuity for Sacmi customers worldwide
Remote factory acceptance tests and the ability to provide a true remote start-up service (SAT - site acceptance test), ensuring customers maximise the opportunities provided by 4.0 technology and our expertise, wherever they are.
KHS lowers fault-related costs with virtual machine commissioning
In the future the digital twin will become a key component of industrial production. KHS already uses models to virtually map the machine and conveyor system commissioning process.
Fakuma 2020: implementation of the digital transformation
Expert visitors will gain an overview of all modern plastics technologies from 13 to 17 October 2020 when roughly 2000 exhibitors present their companies in Friedrichshafen at the 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing.
Service support using Argos: in just a few seconds directly at the machine
With 2,700 technicians at more than 100 international facilities, Krones is well equipped worldwide to provide fast assistance to beverage producers in terms of maintenance and spare-part replacement or in the event of a complete line standstill.
New sorting technology can help overcome recycling business disruptions
Plant design automation and technology advancements lead to increased purity rates, while requiring fewer manual sorters
Pragmatic solutions for fight against COVID-19
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.
Risk-free expert assistance with GEA Remote Support
With the outbreak of Covid-19, organizations are faced with travel restrictions and quarantine challenges, required to reduce direct contact between employees and service providers.
Coperion delivers inovative closed-loop solution
Stuttgart, April 2020–Coperion GmbH is implementing a closed-loop concept for the production of flexible multi-layer film. Recycling multi-layer film has long posed a challenge since such films can only be reclaimed in very complicated ways and not without residues.
Design for success in micro molding
Micro molding projects are by their very nature complicated, and the fact that many require the repeatable attainment of extremely high tolerances demands that there is a collective focus on accuracy when looking at micro tool fabrication, molding, validation, and automation processes.
Dassault Systèmes appoints Pascal Daloz Chief Operating Officer
Newly created role of COO to expand and empower new generation of leadership. Pascal Daloz continues to serve as Chief Financial Officer, a role he has held since 2018.
Pour out your container recycling and walk away
Hard on the heels of the launch of the new Tomra R1 “multi-feed” reverse vending solution, global reverse vending leader Tomra is taking recycling automation up a notch with the unveiling of the Express returns concept.
upakovka and interplastica 2020: Russian market back on track
At the last edition of the trade fair duo comprising interplastica and upakovka there were already signs that the Russian market was moving out of the trough again – at least for the packaging and related processing industry as well as for the plastics and rubber industry.
Engel at JEC World 2020 in Paris
JEC World 2020 from 3 to 5 March in Paris, France, showcases the entire value-added chain of the composites industry. One important part of this chain is forming thermoplastic fibre-composite preforms.
Arburg at PIAE Europe 2020
PIAE Europe 2020, to be held in Mannheim, Germany, on March 25 and 26, is the world's largest congress on plastics in the automotive industry.
3-A certification for the Contipure AseptBloc
In the field of aseptic filling, Krones’ portfolio includes specialised machines for the various sterilisation techniques and products involved.
Arburg at Chinaplas 2020: digitalisation, circular economy, efficiency
At Chinaplas, which will take place in Shanghai, China, from 21 to 24 April 2020, Arburg will use practical examples to show how digitalisation and circular economy can help to improve production efficiency.
Plastics - the great healthcare enabler
Plastics save lives. Pure and simple. What often gets lost in the demonization of plastics due to their waste-related challenges is the fact that modern healthcare is heavily reliant on the material and, in fact, could barely function without it.
Plast Eurasia Istanbul reached record-breaking number of visitors
Plast Eurasia Istanbul 2019 brought together 1.085 companies and company representatives from 40 countries and 52.361 professional visitors from 106 countries on the 4-7 December, 2019 in Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul.
Resource efficiency and sustainability are driving Fakuma 2020
Everybody who’s anybody in the field of industrial plastics processing will meet at Fakuma 2020 in Friedrichshafen.
Polymers enable & enhance sports at every level
Plastics and rubber materials have revolutionized many aspects of sports and leisure activities over the years, and technology advances continue to improve safety, comfort, performance and – increasingly – sustainability, in those sectors.
Chinaplas 2020 focuses on tapping into potential in Asian markets
As the global economy faces mounting downward pressure and factors of uncertainties, the global plastics and rubber industries are at crossroads.
Dry ice blasting - rapid return on investment
Packaging manufacturer experiences rapid return on investment with dry ice blasting.
Smart solutions with smart injection molding technology
Langlotz based in Halver, South Westphalia, has made a name for itself with plastic parts and assemblies for water dispensers and bar systems.
Plastics manufacturing ‘going digital’ in numerous ways
While sustainability and the circular economy may be grabbing most of the headlines these days in the plastics and rubber industries, the quiet shift toward digitalization may be just as monumental a trend in those sectors.