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Haitian sales defied the pandemic in 2020
Hong Kong-based Haitian International Holdings, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of injection moulding machines, has revealed that it enjoyed record sales of 43,000 machines in 2020, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sales increased 20.3% to RMB 11,800m. Exports were 2.1% higher at RMB 3,518m meaning most of the growth came in the Chinese market. The company credited a “rapid recovery in the domestic economic situation” thanks to “strict preventive and control measures taken by the government”. The Haitian Mars series accounted for over 37,000 of the machines sold and saw 26.8% year-on-year sales growth to RMB 8,214m. This was largely due to strong demand for mass medical products and
Haitian International’s Mars series accounted for a very large part of the 43,000 machines sold by the company in 2020
packaging in the first half-year. The electric Zhafir series and the Haitian Jupiter series with two-platen technology saw increases of 6.8% to RMB 1,439m and by 3.2% to RMB 1,303m respectively. This was driven by more limited growth in the household goods and automotive markets. Under a general overview of its five-year plan strategy
at the beginning of 2021, Haitian’s main objectives are to strengthen its global market presence and consistently to expand its market share. The digitalisa- tion of in-house manufactur- ing, especially in terms of R&D, intelligent production processes, digital system integration and process control, will be a key part of this, said the company. �
www.haitian.com
Nanogate group splits up
Nanogate, the German- based specialist in multifunctional compo- nents and surfaces that went into administration in October 2020, an- nounced on 5 March that, with the consent of its creditors’ committee, the management of its Nanogate Medical Systems operations has agreed to be acquired by Walter Potthoff in Germany. This followed on from the sale of Nanogate Kierspe in Germany to its managers. The disposals are both
structured as asset deals and neither business is part of the core business of the group’s restructur- ing strategy. Negotiations will continue with regard to the sale of core business and other subsidiaries. �
www.nanogate.com
Cell for advanced testing in Germany
Above: The cell is based at BASF’s Injection Moulding & Extrusion Pilot Plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany
4 INJECTION WORLD | April 2021
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and BASF have developed an all-electric manufacturing cell to produce test specimens for product R&D activities in thermoplastics and compounds. This is based at BASF’s Injection Moulding & Extrusion Pilot Plant at Ludwigshafen. It is claimed to deliver repeatable results on over 4,000 test settings/year. The cell centres on an IntElect 1,000 kN injection mould- ing machine. A linear SDR 5-35S robot selects and places one of 12 interchangeable mould inserts, extract the moulded specimen and pass it to a small, six-axis, articulat- ed-arm Yaskawa GP8 robot to cut it from the gate using a servo spindle drive punching machine. The cell features an HB-Therm temperature control unit and a digital manufacturing execution system to map each test sequence. �
www.basf.com �
www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu
www.injectionworld.com
IMAGE: HAITIAN
IMAGE: BASF
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