Plast 2015
| exhibition preview
Mucell foam moulding technology developed by Trexel in the US (and marketed by Engel under the FoamMelt name) to produce automotive centre console parts. The process will be running on a 550 tonne Engel
Duo machine with Viper 20 robot. Using the Roctool mould temperature control technology results in a high surface quality and good feature reproduction on the thin wall parts, while the Mucell foaming process ensures total filling of the mould with no sink marks. For packaging visitors, Engel will show production of
500ml IML food containers on a 160 tonne eMotion machine with an injection speed of more than 500 mm/s. The parts will be produced in a mould by Glaroform with IML handling by Beck Automation (both of Switzerland). Other exhibits include a 100 tonne
all-electric e-Mac machine producing medical needle holders in PS on a 16-cavity mould from Fostag of Switzer- land and a 120 tonne two-component e-Victory Combi machine making sensor housings with an integrated LSR seal in a mould from ACH Solution of Austria.
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KraussMaffei Hall 24 Stand B62
The centrepiece of the KraussMaffei injection moulding division’s display at Plast will be a 650 tonne GX two-platen machine producing thin wall transport crates using its recently developed APC adaptive process control technology. The GX 650-8100 machine will produce the stackable
PP crates with a shot weight of 500g on a cycle of around 8 seconds. The machine will be fitted with the company’s new high-speed SP 8100 injection unit which, with a diameter of 105mm and injection speed of up to 400 mm/s, is said to be well suited for high-speed production of thin-wall items such as transport packaging. The crate will be manufactured as a free-falling part and the machine was built with a 150mm increased height to accommodate this, says KM. The process will be regulated using the APC
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machine control option. This patented technology is claimed to immediately compensate for fluctuations in the manufacturing process, allowing processors to achieve a consistently high component quality. The system adjusts changeover point and holding pressure profile in each cycle to the current melt viscosity and flow resistance in the mould, says the company. This makes it possible to compensate for deviations caused by changes in temperature, material or environmental conditions in the same shot. ❙
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Moretto Hal 22 Stand A81-B82
The centrepiece of the Moretto stand at Plast will be its high efficiency Eureka drying system solution, which is based around its X-Max on-demand modular dryers, OTX thermal exchangers and Flowmatik air distribution technology. Other new additions from the Italian ancillary equipment maker include the Moretto PET Kyrstallizer (MPK). This uses an optimised system configuration and mixing arrangement to allow simple start-up. Additional features include standard dust removal and collection down to 20 microns, simplified clean down routines and advanced touch-screen control. The company will also demonstrate its One Wire 6 control for vacuum conveying installations.
Designed for use with the company’s Kasko receivers and Kruise Kontrol speed
control, the system provides fully automatic recognition and self learning tools to
make system set-up and expansion simple. Moretto will also show its DGM Gravix dosing
systems and Thermozone TE-KO temperature control- lers. Gravix dosers operate to within 0.001% variation and can be configured to handle up to 12 material components at combined throughputs of up to 12 tonnes/hr. Features include Vibration Immunity System and Rotopulse precision dosing. Thermozone TE-KO temperature controllers
are available in water, oil and pressurized variants covering the range from 0.5 to 54kW. Standard water units operate up to 95˚C, pressur- ised water up to 125˚C, indirect oil up to 200˚C and pressurised oil up to 250˚C. Visitors will also be
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Below: Moretto will show its
TE-KO range of temperature controllers
Left: Heat-cool noulding will be shown on an Engel Victory machine
Left: These creates will be moulded on a KM GX machine using APC adaptive process control
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