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one of the topics in her presentation at the AMI conference. She referred to a Philips shaver that is due to go into commercial production during 2020. The shaver is moulded in PC-ABS PCR material and incorporates a light diffuser also made from recycled material. Philips has been at the forefront of the trend to
use recyclate in new products, including in vacuum cleaners and coffee machines. It first started its work on adopting recycled plastics in new products back in 2010. The amount of recycled plastics the group uses each year has risen steadily and reached 1,800 tonnes in 2017 and 2,200 tonnes in 2018. It has a target to boost that figure to 7,600 tonnes by 2025, said Eelco Smit, Senior Director Sustainability at Philips, in a presentation at AMI’s 2018 Design for Sustainability conference in London (see Plastics Recycling World March-April 2019 issue). Philips announced in January that it was splitting out its Domestic Appliances business and review- ing its ownership options, in order for the group to focus closely on its medical and healthcare products business. But there is strong momentum in the sustainability programmes it has started in the electronics business for them to be carried
forward. For example, it is a founding member of the global Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy. One of the PACE projects is to create a platform for high level collaboration on building a circular economy for electronics on a global scale. The design perspective of a materials group was
provided at AMI’s 2019 conference in Berlin by Niklas Meine, Marketing Segment Manager for the polycarbonates business at Covestro. He highlight- ed work done by the group on product design concepts for smart homes which it developed with
Above: At K2019, Covestro showed product design concepts for smart homes which it
developed with Design Affairs
Spritzgiessautomaten Electro-
mechanically driven
injection unit
All movements of the injection moulding process, such as ejector, core pull and mould, as well as electromechanical dosing and injection, are per- formed simultaneously with high precision via independent servo-motor drive axes.
E – Drive
The electromechanical drive of the injection unit - separated from the machine hydraulics - offers advantages in case of short cycle times and high
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