SHOW PREVIEW | FAKUMA 2017 Machinery


Right: Arburg’s new hybrid Allrounder 1120 H with a clamping force of 6,500 kN


Right: Beck Automation’s IML system for coffee capsule production


Arburg’s diversification into large hybrid injection moulding ma- chines will be consolidated at Fakuma 2017 with the debut of the hybrid Allrounder 920 H with a clamping force of 5,000 kN. At K 2016 the group launched the Allrounder 1120 H and expanded its range of clamping forces by 30% to 6,500 kN. Pilot customers have been using that large machine and it can be ordered by customers worldwide from Fakuma 2017 onwards. The Allrounder 920 H at Fakuma, designed with a modern colour scheme and shape, has Arburg’s new Gestica control system with a high-resolution full-HD screen and industrial multi-touch technol- ogy. It will produce a technical part, whereas the Allrounder 1120 H at Fakuma will be central to a turnkey solution, producing Arburg’s familiar folding step stool in a cycle time of 60s. The eight individual parts will be handled by a Multilift V 40 linear robotic system and assembled ready for use by means of a six-axis robot and assembly station.


Another turnkey system is based on an electric two- component Allrounder 570 A producing LSR wristwatches. Two two-tone wrist straps made from the LSR materials Silopren 2670 (hardness 70 Shore A) and 2620 (hardness 20 Shore A) are produced and assembled automati- cally in a cycle time of 75s. A packaging version of the Allrounder 570 H will be moulding four thin-wall IML tubs from PP in a cycle time of less than 2s. The mould and the automation system for inserting the IML labels and removing and stacking the 3.55g decorated finished parts are from Brink. For automotive moulding, Arburgs is showing


an Allrounder 370 E Golden Electric and a hydrau- lic two-component Allrounder 470 S. The first machine is moulding four 8.5g parts made from mineral-filled PA6 in a cycle time of around 20s. The second machine, with a 1 + 1-cavity mould, is producing covers for car interiors. Arburg’s focus on Industry 4.0, a regular feature at recent trade fairs, is a practical example: rubber


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tension belts. This application will be demonstrated on a vertical Allrounder 375 V with a 4-cavity mould, which Arburg says will “show how customer wishes expressed online can be integrated into the ongoing injection moulding process”. � www.arburg.com


Beck Automation has developed an IML system for plastic coffee capsules which it is presenting at Fakuma 2017. It is being shown using a Netstal Elion 1200-250/55 machine (see Netstal below) in a four- cavity set-up but larger numbers of cavities are also possible. The company said that in 2016 it commissioned several 32+32 stack mould- ing machines. Beck says coffee compa- nies are looking for alterna- tives to aluminium capsules


for environmental reasons. IML, when combined with multi-layer technology, can


provide the answer, according to Beck. � www.beck-automation.com


A total of 14 exhibits – a record number for the company at a Fakuma fair – will be shown by Boy, the injection moulding machine manufacturer. The machines range from the very small to much larger. The new table top machine Boy XXS, with 63kN clamping force, will produce small game figures made of a foamed PP. It is equipped with an energy-efficient servo drive and the company’s intuitive Procan Alpha 4 control unit. The XXS has clamping plates optimised for micro-moulding. A new energy-saving approach being highlight- ed by Boy involves partial tempering of the mould (3D-printed metal mould inserts in the Fakuma demonstration). The group says this is another energy-saving development focused on the mould,


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