mouldmaking | Pallets
Right: Interpal- let managing director Helge Almestad stands with the new anti-slip pallet in front of the produc- tion cell
pallet is removed from the mould using an articulated robot, which places the finished pallets on a cooling line and ultimately transfers them to a stacking station. Each of the two additional TPE injection cycles
extends the process cycle by 10s, taking the total cycle up to 110s for the 17.5kg part. However, Auer says there is still some room to save some more time through further optimisation of the process. The Interpallet project took close to three years from
first contact with the Norwegian development team to hand-over of the completed mould. Production of the mould itself, which weighs in at 49 tonnes and meas- ures 1,900mm by 1,750mm by 1,890mm, took around six months from finalisation of the design. Serial production of the pallets began at Interpallet
TPE is injected, then in the second step a 2mm gap is created on the moving platen side before the second shot of TPE is delivered. Once the TPE is cooled the mould is fully opened, the side cores and ejector sequence is actuated and the
last year. “To bring my vision of the safe pallet to life, we needed competent cooperation partners, especially for the transformation of the sophisticated product idea into a producible moulding, says Interpallet’s Almestad. “The designers and toolmakers of Haidlmair have fulfilled these expectations.” ❙
www.haidlmair.at ❙
www.interpallet.no
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