NEWS Tide Rock
adds PMT to portfolio
US holding company Tide Rock Holdings has acquired Plastic Molding Technology (PMT), a full-service precision injection moulding company based in El Paso, Texas. Charles Sholtis, former owner and CEO of PMT, will remain as an advisor. Tide Rock will add
PMT to Pikes Peak Plastics and Altratek to form a new plastics injection moulding company for the industrial, energy, electronics, telecommu- nications, medical and automotive industries. It also owns Interconnect Solutions and Plastics Design & Manufacturing. “We now can serve customers from multiple strategic locations, each with a highly skilled workforce and 95 total moulding machines ranging from 20 to 500 tons,” said group CEO Michael Engler. �
www.pmtinc.com
Engel: New unit at BMW and management moves
BMW has launched a new Engel production unit at its Landshut plant, which will produce the kidney-shaped badge for the electric BMW iX in a cleanroom atmos- phere. The manufacturing process has changed fundamentally because, with the electrification of the drivetrains, the badge now protects the camera and several sensors for assisted driving. For the part, a heatable functional film is back-mould- ed with PC and flood-coated with PUR in an Engel technique called Clearmelt. This technique had previ- ously been used in vehicle interiors, but not in the series production of functional exterior components. The production cell
integrates a Duo Combi M injection moulding machine with a horizontal rotary table, two large articulated robots to handle the films and moulded parts, a film cleaning system, an inline quality control station and
Above: The kidney-shaped badge for the electric BMW iX produced in the Engel unit
peripheral units, including PUR technology. The clamping unit and the robot work areas are encapsulated over a length of 6 m and a height of more than 4 m to achieve an ISO class 7 cleanroom. n Christoph Steger, Chief Sales Officer, is leaving the Engel Group “to further develop himself vocationally and to change his career orientation”, the company has announced. His role is being taken over by Stefan Engleder, CEO, as of 1 February. The company said
that Steger has “significantly contributed” to its success in the past ten years. Engel also announced it has appointed Gerhard Dimmler (previously VP Research and Development) to the board as Chief Technology Officer leading the Development division. Chief Financial Officer Markus Richter is leaving the group at his own request at the end of March and his successor Simon Zeilberger will join as Commercial Director on 1 April. �
www.engelglobal.com
LS Mtron to show new electric machine range
The One*-E, a new, all-elec- tric injection moulding machine from LS Mtron, will be shown for the first time at
Plastic West at Anaheim, California, USA, on 12-14, April, the Georgia-based firm has announced.
IMAGE: LS MTRON
The One*-E is currently available in five sizes (120, 140, 190, 310, and 390 US tons) and LS Mtron plans to
Left: The new One*-E machine
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introduce four more later this year. It is said to be ideal for high-cavitation, high- speed, and thin-wall moulding for packaging and medical part applications. It is also Industry 4.0-ready, offering users LS Mtron’s CSI monitoring and control software for retrieving and controlling data. �
www.lsinjection.com
www.injectionworld.com
IMAGE: BMW
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