news Sepro to start US robot assembly
French robotics specialist Sepro said it will begin assembling robots at its US site at Warrendale in Pennsyl- vania in Q4 “to optimise delivery to North American customers”.
North America was Sepro’s
top regional market in 2016, accounting for 21% of its €103m global sales volume. The 2016 global result was the company’s fourth consecutive
year of record sales; the company said growth in sales of large robots was particularly marked at 14.3% year-on-year compared to 5.1% for smaller robots for moulding machines under 750 tonnes. Sepro currently designs and
integrates automation cells at the 1,530m2
Warrendale
facility, which it moved into in December 2013. The initial robot manufacturing focus will
be on large robots for delivery to the US, Canada and possibly Mexico for injection moulding machines of above 800 tonnes from its Strong, S7 and 7X ranges. The company said it will
source beams and some other components locally, while the more technical components will continue to be manufac- tured in France. Sepro has considerably
Heads up at Continental
German automotive technology company Continental has taken delivery of a 10th
Arburg
injection moulding machine for production of aspherical mirrors used in its head-up display (HUD) systems. Demand for automotive HUDs - which display key vehicle data onto the screen directly in front of the driver - is growing fast, up by 70% to around 600,000 units last year. The aspherical mirror is a key functional component requiring dimensional accuracy to within 5 microns.
This latest acquisition is a
500 tonne Allrounder 920A Alldrive model. It joins a similar machine and eight 320 tonne Allrounder 720A Alldrive
machines. The machines process highly transparent cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) polymer. ❙
www.arburg.com
strengthened its position in large robots over the past 18 months, adding three new beam robot lines and a range of large six-axis articulated robots through a deal with Yaskawa Motoman. The latest addition – launched at K2016 – is the 7X-100XL, a large beam model that offers a 10-metre horizon- tal reach and the ability to handle payloads up to 100 kg. ❙
www.sepro-group.com
Alpla grows in Romania
Global plastic packaging supplier Alpla announced the acquisition of Roma- nia’s Star East Pet. The deal will close mid year. Founded in 2007 and based in Bra‚sov, Star East PET specialises in produc- ing PET preforms for drinks, food and non-food products.
Continental Head of Production HUD-Speigel Dr Sebastian Wiebel Nissha teams with TactoTek
Nissha Printing, a Japanese company active in in-mould decorated parts for automotive and home appliance OEMs, is to collaborate with Finnish firm TactoTek, a producer of 3D injection moulded struc- tural electronics (IMSEs), to make automotive and home appliance control panels.
10 The two companies said the
first collaborative project is scheduled for high volume mass production this year. It will include printed circuitry and high performance capacitive touch and LEDs encapsulated within an injection moulded plastic part. According to Kaz Oki, VP of
INJECTION WORLD | January/February 2017
New Product Planning at Nissha USA, replacing the separate full-sized printed circuit board and light guide structure with a single IMSE component will yield many benefits, including lower costs by simplifying assembly. ❙
www.nissha.com ❙
www.tactotek.com
Alpla has been active in Romania for many years, producing bottles and closures for the personal and home care markets. It has a recycling plant in southern Poland and sees Eastern Europe as “an important future market” in PET recycling. It said the Star East PET
move boosts its production capacities in Eastern Europe and improves its proximity to existing customers. ❙
www.alpla.com
www.injectionworld.com
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