NEWS Free hydraulic fluids webinar
A webinar in October will offer advice to injection moulders on how the selection of hydraulic fluids for their machines can improve energy efficiency and productivity, and how this links to their Industry 4.0 strategy. The webinar, which is being held by
ExxonMobil in association with AMI Maga- zines, is free of charge and takes place on 30th October 2018 (3pm CET). The present-
AD Plastik buys Tisza Automotive
AD Plastik has acquired its Hungarian compatriot Tisza Automotive, as part of its “key goals of business strategy and medium-term develop- ment plan” that will drive its own future growth. Terms were not disclosed but it is known that Tisza had operating revenues of over €20m last year. Based on a 22,400 m2
site at Tiszaújváros, near Hungary’s second city of Miskolc, Tisza has supplied plastic compo- nents to local automotive OEMs, including Suzuki, Bentley and Volkswagen, for the past 15 years. It is also a second-tier supplier to companies including Rehau, APCB, Reydel, Hanon Systems, Vernicolor, Mitsuba and Heycoustics. Tisza’s key technologies are injec- tion moulding and blow moulding, like AD Plastik. It employs more than 400 people at its site, 180 km from Budapest. �
www.adplastik.hr �
www.t-a.hu
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ers are: Dr Robin Kent, a leading authority on saving energy in the plastics sector; Chris Smith, Editor-in-Chief at Injection World magazine; and Inken Reuser, Plastics Offer Advisor at ExxonMobil. All webinar participants will also receive a
free copy of ‘Advancing Industry 4.0 in Plastics with Hydraulic Fluids’ – a practical guide to high performance hydraulic fluids.
Lego has built a lifesize model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar using over 1m Lego Technic elements. It can fit two passengers inside and reach 20km/h. Using 2,304 motors, the 1.5 t car generates 5.3 hp and an estimated torque of 92 Nm. �
www.lego.com
Royal Plastics living in the Fast Lane
Royal Plastics, a family-owned custom injection moulder in South Dakota, US, has announced the installation of 85 and 130 US ton tiebarless Victory machines and two E-pic B servo sprue picker robots from Engel North America. All of these, the company said, were delivered in a matter of a few weeks of the order being placed under Engel’s Fast Lane programme Royal Plastics added that the tiebarless design is particu- larly advantageous, as it allows them to run larger moulds in smaller tonnage machines, yielding cost efficiencies to them and their customers. This also allows for faster mould changes, the use of more complex moulds – such as those with multiple core pulls – unobstructed access for robots, platen parallelism and energy efficiency comparable to that of an all-electric machine. �
www.engelglobal.com
Carclo bid talks dissolve
Consort Medical has withdrawn from making a takeover offer for UK injection moulder Carclo. Consort approached Carclo in July about a potential deal. Carclo said in a
Two Engel Victory machines were installed at Royal Plastics INJECTION WORLD | September 2018
statement in August: “Further to meetings between Consort and Carclo, and after careful consideration, the Board of Consort has deter- mined that the proposed transaction would not deliver the required benefits in a reasonable timeframe and it is therefore not in the interests of its sharehold- ers to continue with a non-binding proposal for Carclo.” �
www.carclo.co.uk
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