NEW LAUNCHES | TECHNOLOGY
October is traditionally the month when suppliers show off new products to plastics processors. In 2020, the tradition is being maintained – but new launches are this year happening online
Machinery makes debut in the virtual world
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted all areas of business activity in 2020, including live events at which plastics processors would normally get up close to new technology and find out details by speaking to staff on the supplier’s exhibition stand. With normal practice not being possible this year due to Covid-19 restrictions, technology companies have taken an online route to reveal their new products. Following the announcement by the organisers
of Fakuma, the leading show for injection moulders, that the show could not go ahead in Friedrichshafen, some machinery groups are presenting their technology on virtual platforms. Many of them have posted information on the virtual platform provided by Fakuma:
www.fakuma-messe.de/en/fakuma- virtual. Injection World here presents highlights of recent product launches by selected companies.
Wittmann Battenfeld has created Ingrinder, highlighting the trend for injection moulders to use recycled content to help customers meet their sustainability targets. Ingrinder is an injection moulding system with integrated sprue picker, granulator and vacuum conveyor. The granulator and the sprue picker can be operated via the moulding machine’s Unilog B8 control system. Wittmann Battenfeld highlighted Ingrinder on a
SmartPower 60/210 producing a can with a lid in PS with a 2-2-cavity mould. A Wittmann WP50 sprue picker removes the sprue and passes it to the G-Max
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granulator integrated in the system. The material recycled by the granulator is then transported to the machine’s material hopper by a Feedmax S3 vacuum conveyor. The vacuum conveyors enable alternating conveyance of virgin material and regrind, so that a thorough blend is created by this process, together with discharge of the material into the hopper. The company showcased LSR processing on a
SmartPower 120/350 machine with a 2-cavity mould supplied by Nexus, producing a drink timer. The injection unit in open design enables easy integration of the LSR metering unit. The Nexus X200 metering unit comes with a new servomix metering system with OPC-UA integration. In the mould, cold runner technology is used including Flowset needle shut-off control. In addition to other demonstrations in the
packaging and medical sectors, Wittmann Batten- feld is highlighting an upgrade to the MES solution TEMI+ from Ice-flex. The new version of TEMI+ comes with a completely new interface framework technology – allowing for fast operator interaction and highest stability – a powerful Production Planner and the optional IMAGOxt package for graphical measurements such as energy consumption. �
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Boy presented its technology in demonstrations at its Technical Center in Neustadt-Fernthal, Germany, starting on 28 September 2020. It says the techni-
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Main image: Ingrinder comprises a Wittmann Battenfeld SmartPower 60 with sprue picker, granulator and vacuum conveyor
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