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IML was given by Engel during October. During its virtual event called Live E-xperience 2020 from 13 to 16 October, Engel showed the latest addition to its E-speed range of hybrid electric machines, the 2,800-kN E-speed 280, producing 1-litre round PP containers for yoghurt. The new machine takes the E-speed machines into a lower clamping force range, with a particular focus on manufacturers of thin-walled containers, buckets, and lids. The “interactive IML” solution was implemented in cooperation with partners Brink (mould and automation) and Verstraete (labels). “Combined with an app on a smartphone, the pack can talk to the consumer and explain how to recycle the empty pack,” says Verstraete. “It can be connected with the GPS location so that wherever you are, you get the correct information. At the same time, big data is collected that can be of huge importance to optimise the way waste is collected and recycled in the future.” Demonstrating the extent of what is possible in
IML for thin-wall packaging, StackTeck Systems had a four-cavity IML thin-wall 500g container mould running on a BMB 4500-kN hybrid injection machine at K2019. The container, which had three labels, incorporated StackTeck’s TRIM technology and Trexel’s MuCell physical foaming technology to enable a part weight 20% lighter than conven- tional thin-wall injection moulding. (TRIM stands for Thin Recess Injection Moulding, which StackTeck says “uses an advanced approach to thin-out portions of the wall section well beyond the conventional thin wall packaging approach used for polyolefins with high melt flow indexes.”) “This is a cost-effective approach that decorates
Above: Kurz developed the Iconic Space Grille concept panel to demonstrate what can be achieved with IMD PUR using individual PMD sheets. It won in the category Future, Mobility and Parts in the 2020 Automotive Brand Contest
the three largest sides of the container, while using a reduced overall label size compared to a typical wrap-around IML approach,” says StackTeck President and CEO, Vince Travaglini. In October 2019, StackTeck established a new facility for robotics engineering, assembly, test and injection moulding systems integration. StackTeck has an existing IML pilot cell that uses a dedicated IML robot with a 300 tonne injection machine for prototyping and sampling new IML products. Initial efforts for the new business will be focused on IML applications for the Americas, but the company says it has long term plans to serve a broad range of automation systems on a global scale. Jordan Robertson, StackTeck’s VP of Business Development and Marketing, says: “We see a niche in North America, where customers are looking not
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