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Arburg hosts 6,300 visitors at 20th Technology Days event
More than 6,300 visitors attended Arburg’s 20th Technology Days open house event at its factory in Lossburg, Germany, earlier this year. Chris Smith reports
German machinery maker Arburg held its 20th
annual
Technology Days open house event at its factory at Lossburg in Germany’s Black Forest, attracting some 6,300 visitors from 54 countries and taking the total cumulative count over the past two decades to more than 87,000. Taking place ahead of three of the world’s major plastics trade shows – Chinaplas, NPE in the US and Plast in Italy – it might have been expected the firm would have little new to share but that proved not to be the case; senior managers detailed business, machinery and processing developments. Arburg Managing
Director of Finance Jürgen Boll confirmed that the company’s sales continue their upward trend. Full year figures for 2017 were up by 7% to €680m (it posted simi- lar growth in 2016). He said the company invested €21.5m in factory improve- ments last year – excluding the training centre that is currently under construc- tion. Shortly after the customer event the com- pany announced it will add further production capacity with work to begin on its
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18,000m2 Hall 23 next year.
With incoming orders up by 27% during 2017 the outlook looks bright for Arburg, although the company maintained its traditionally conservative tradition of not predicting target numbers. Boll did, however, say that orders for electric machines grew by 43% last year. “Electric machines continue to gain in importance,” he said.
All-electric gains Managing Director of Sales Gerhard Böhm said electric machines, including all-electric and its high performance hybrid designs, now make up around 50% of sales. The introduction of the Golden Edition entry-level all-elec- tric Allrounder machines to
its existing Edrive and Alldrive options has played a key part in that growth. The company is now hoping to add to that with the introduction of a further variant of its high perfor- mance Alldrive series. Arburg Managing
Director of Technology Heinz Gaub said the new Alldrive L1 variant is available up to 200 tonnes (size 570A) and is designed for energy efficient produc- tion of technical parts that might previously be undertaken on a dual pump hydraulic model. He cited examples such as multi- component moulding or production using complex moulds. The company will offer the higher perfor- mance Alldrive L2 version for fast cycle work requiring
multi-stage clamp control and simultaneous operation of all secondary axes, while an Alldrive L3 variant is available for thin wall applications from 250 tonnes (size 630). The Technology Days also saw the launch of Arburg’s redesigned Allrounder 920H – now available to order – and the first public showing of its new Allrounder 820H. These new machines follow the styling of the company’s range-topping 650 tonne Allrounder 1120H but are available with the choice of the latest version of the company’s proven Selogica controller or the new gesture-based Gestica system (the latter the sole option on the 1120H). The 820H was demon-
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