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Kunststoffe international, Killing Problem Microbes
An American manufacturer and an invention team from Canada have developed and patented a formulation that can permanently protect plastic surfaces and metals from microbes. The technical active destroys the cell membrane of the germs without allowing them to adapt. It is applied in an online process after extrusion or thermoforming and then cured thermally or using UV light. ViaClean Technologies LLC has developed proprietary thermal, UV and hybrid cure antimicrobial treatment formulations, eith...
Kunststoffe international, Replacing Metal in the Gearbox
...the output shaft that drives the wheels. However, they are not permanently connected to this shaft. A shifter sleeve is needed to manipulate a synchronizer ring to create a positive lock between a selected gear and the shaft, i. e. to engage that gear, so that the power from the engine can be transmitted via the counter shaft. This shifter sleeve itself is moved by the shifter fork (Title figure), and anyone with an appreciation of the forces that a car engine can develop will understand just ho...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, A Systematic Approach to Micro-Injection Moulding
...sistance - coatability, and - the homogeneity of the structure. It is also essential for the geometric design of the component to be suitably tailored to the injection moulding process through having the customer, mould builder and injection moulder engage in close cooperation on the project. Consideration should be paid to subsequent series-production conditions at the prototype phase already, and these conditions should be specified for the most part. This not only includes the concept for the...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Cost Accounting Software: For Users with a Sure Touch
...erning product lifetime, number of parts, costs of mould and transport, financing and other details (for example, overheads), it calculates the unit price, including the desired profit. If this margin is not attainable, the user then has to engage in the magic art of playing around with parameters. Adds Schmale: "The expert, for example, plays around with the cycle times and attempts to optimise the lists downwards". The user can then print out the full costing, including that for the di...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: A Healthy Approach
...oduction volume of Germany's core machinery business attained a value of EUR 4360 million in 2003, with three-quarters of this sum generated by exports. The sector certainly needs have no qualms about ascribing this success to its readiness to engage in new developments. Two factors are particularly striking here. Firstly, China is now the biggest single market for machinery from Germany, having displaced the USA from the top position it held for many years. And, secondly, the share of the C...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: Better, Not Cheaper
...Company controllers have already done a great deal of harm with their red pencils here. A large number of Institutes will be presenting themselves and their projects at the forthcoming "K" trade fair. Let us take this opportunity to engage in initial talks or to build further on already-established contacts. Gerhard Gotzmann
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: Securing Margins
...ket situation. A further positive aspect is that the tonnages offered are guaranteed to be available on the dates agreed on. It is still not necessary to actually take physical delivery of the goods at the exchange – it is quite possible to simply engage in the purely monetary aspect of futures contracts in order to hedge against price increases at a traditional supplier's. The benefits are clear: long-term supply contracts can be secured by raw materials contracts in such a way that both c...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Elastomers: Flexible and Customised
... panels where, for example, a hard TPO replaces the ABS material normally used for the carrier, while a crosslinked polyolefin foam takes the place of PU. The trim consists of soft TPO as a fogging-free alternative to PVC (achieved with the Engage modifier from DuPont Dow Elastomers). TPE can now also offer flame retardancy. For the first time, the styrene block copolymers Vitaprene 8013 and 8010 (Vita Thermoplastic Polymers) have been given a UL V0 and V2 listing under the international UL sta...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Engineering Network: Additional Knowledge Instead of Competition
...moved into a new production facility in the Wilhelmsdorf industrial zone. One milestone was the production of the cavity floors for office and industrial buildings, which were new at that time. Right from the very start, Jacob set out not to engage in predatory competition but to develop a business that involved intensive know-how for niche markets. "I dislike the word converter, because it degrades the work that we do. The approach that was adopted in the Sixties (machinery and raw material...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Exhibition Preview: North American and Canadian Products at K 2004
...ex 338, an ABS-based impact modifier for rigid PVC fencing and siding. It is said to have excellent weatherability. DuPont Dow Elastomers, Wilmington/Delaware, will feature seven new grades of Engage polyolefin elastomers (POEs). They are ethylene-butene copolymers targeted for automotive TPOs, wire/cable, and consumer applications. They boast an excellent combination of melt strength, impact enhancement, and clarity for blow molding, sheet extrusion, and thermoforming. Some of the latest automo...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Functional Compounds
...r this filler material in plastics. Acknowledgements Special thanks go to Dr. G. Wilbert (Clariant, Gersthofen/Germany) and Dr. E. Licht (Basell, Bayreuth/Germany) for the supply of materials, as well as for their support and constant readiness to engage in discussions. Particular thanks are also extended to the staff of the Geo-Research Centre in Potsdam/Germany, and especially to Dr. F. Schilling, for their rapid and straightforward assistance with the thermal conductivity measurements. The...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Hybrid Moulding: Getting the Combination Right
... tooling may be fast, but suffers from the disadvantages mentioned above concerning surface properties and durability. This situation and a willingness to deploy new technologies encouraged the company Eisenhuth Formenbau, Osterode/Germany, to engage in extensive empirical testing and perform several research projects in this area and this has finally paid off in a combination that may be aptly described as hybrid moulding. A hybrid mould consists essentially of metal/laser-sintered mould insert...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Injection Moulding for Medical Technology: Parts Handling in the Cleanroom
... sector accessible to authorised personnel, where they can be manually unloaded. Summary The automation of this cleanroom production plant for membrane fixing rings has led to a highly efficient production, checking and packing system that can engage in fully autonomous production over a period of 80min. The cycle time per part (material: PVDF) is 40s, and the intervention time for parts and sprue removal is just 3.5s. Consequently, despite the complex, multi-functional gripper system, the robo...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Innovation and Efficiency: Bayer: Success by Splitting the Plastics Activities?
...its products and services specifically to individual customer needs in various markets and world regions. Because it is forecast to show positive growth, the Asian market takes special importance. "We will engage particularly strongly in China", explains Koemm. As an example, he quoted the current strategic challenge of building up a site for manufacturing halobutyl rubber in Asia so as to have a presence there with the necessary capacities at competitive prices. The main client industr...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Interview: The Benefits of Joining Ranks
...turing of the Bayer Group and on its assessment of the markets in the polyurethane sector. The restructuring of the Bayer Group has repeatedly prompted discussions in the polyurethane market as to the future of Hennecke GmbH, a Bayer Group company engaged in the field of polyurethane technology. Kunststoffe plast europe spoke with Rudolf Brumund, Managing Director at Hennecke, Volker Brüninghaus, Head of Automotive, and Dr.-Ing. Michael Begemann, Head of Rigid and Flexible Foam Lines. Kunst...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Interview: “Ensuring Sustainable Development”
... more, this entails an intensive exchange of knowledge and experience. In this regard, we can offer not only specialties and innovative products, but also, and especially, our chemical expertise, which will continue to grow as we engage in dialogue with our customers. Kunststoffe: What results is BASF seeking to achieve in the plastics area with this objective? Feldmann: In the last few years, we have realigned our global plastics business and substantially expanded it. In doing so, we have conc...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Meaningful Aid or Expense?
...e shrinkage and warpage analysed. It is difficult to accumulate the experience of a service provider in-house. Costs learning in the hard way are usually not considered in cost accounting. Examples show that also individual large companies prefer to engage service providers for simulations instead of investing themselves. Others outsource a large fraction of their projects. CAD Coupling Must Still Be Improved Additionally there is the question of time limitations. Also communication and inform...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Plastic, the All-purpose Material: Function in Form
...urface without swimming or diving, they can turn to the transparent polycarbonate kayak developed by GE Plastics (grade: Lexan; Fig.9). The kayakers can decide for themselves whether to engage in active sport or just discover the underwater world [3]. For a mobile holiday, many choose a caravan or motor caravan. Plastics are finding increasing use here, too. Glass fibre-reinforced plastics manufacturers often use them in combination with other materials. To bond the different substrates together...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene (PP)
...ld of non-reactive modification, metallocene plastomers (PE-LLD with very high butane or octane concentrations) have, in the meantime, also emerged as a new class of impact modifiers. Notable examples include Dow’s Engage and DEX Plastomers’ Exact products. Compared with conventional elastomers, such as EPR or EPDM, these materials have the advantage of being available in a wide MFR range, which extends their usability to high-flow compounds [8]. As well as fulfilling mechanical properties, they...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Portait: Pointers to the Future
...sively to customer drawings. Our sales activities are not geared up for marketing our own products”. But no matter what they engage in the future, the maxim remains: “The family business must stay independent”. Clemens Doriat Company Data Company name: A. Maier Präzision Type of company: GmbH Shareholders: 6 family branches of the brothers Arthur, Albrecht, Albert, Alfred, Adolf, Arnold Maier Location: Gewerbehallestr. 1-3, D-78112 St. Georgen Internet address: www.a-maier.de Production cent...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Strategies for Cooling Moulds
... Emould GmbH, Aachen; - Hella KG, Lippstadt; - M-Tec, Herzogenrath; - GTT-Steinko, Nassau; - Vygon, Aachen; - ISK, Iserlohn, as well as many other discussion partners for their readiness to provide information and engage in discussions. The Author of this Article Martin Koch, Aachen Contact: koch@ikv.rwth-aachen.de Fig. 1. Influence of the cavity wall temperature on part properties Fig. 2. Change in temperature over time at various sites on the injection mould Temperatur = Temperature; Werk...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Tailored EPDM
...ty and an even broader range of applications than was hitherto possible with EPDM products. With the introduction of single-site catalysts with fixed geometry (CGC), a new class of polyolefin elastomers was born [1, 2, 3]. Following the success of Engage ethylene-octene copolymers, and the completion of DuPont Dow Elastomer's range of Nordel IP EPDM polymers, further ethylene copolymers based on metallocene technology are now poised for market launch. Nordel IP is the first mass-produced E...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, The Future Role of the Plastics Producers
The Future Role of the Plastics Producers Strategic Decisions at the Start of the 21st Century Thomas L. Hensel, Frankfurt am Main/Germany Pressure on earnings and margins is forcing plastics producers to engage in a strategic realignment of their structures. The services that have been offered to date are coming under close scrutiny. New corporate models make a distinction between suppliers of standard products, innovators, problem-solving partners and service providers. Networks and virt...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE)
...s it possible to observe tight tolerances. Hose lines of this type are in use on different makes of car and truck where they are subject to pressures of 25 to 40bars at long-term service temperatures of up to 120°C. Polyolefins modified with the Engage polyolefin elastomer manufactured by DuPont Dow Elastomers, Geneva/Switzerland, are particularly suitable for thermoforming and can be used for parts in the car interior, for example (Fig.6). This permits balanced properties to be achieved at both...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-02-23, Surface Activation: Effectiveness of Pretreatment
... are being carried out at present. Acknowledgement This work was partly funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (reference no. 16IN0111). We would like to thank Mr Rehwinkel from Fluor Technik System GmbH for his willingness to engage in helpful discussion. References 1 Schröder, B.; Reichl, R.; Kopf, M.; Brockmann, W.; Jopp H.: Klebtechnikeinsatz bei der Herstellung medizinischer Instrumente. kleben & dichten vol. 42, 11/98, pp. 16–21 2 Brunotte, R.; Kolz, H.; Nagel, J.: Inl...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-03-23, Lanxess: Moving Boldly into the Future
...ases, are obsolete and unsuitable. This then results in excessively high costs. By hiving off this segment into an independent company, Fine Chemicals is now to be given the opportunity to produce its products at a competitive cost and engage in custom manufacturing. At the same time, this will put the business unit in a position to stand its ground in the international arena. At the start of the year the new company was launched under the name Saltigo (based on the Italian word for "jump...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-07-31, Blown Film Technology: Strategic Realignment Makes for Success
...n not only means fulfilling customers wishes but also understanding the wishes of the customers’ customers (film refiners and users) too. The focus is thus also on “the customer’s customer”. The company is intending to engage in a technology drive and to grow still further, under its own steam, gaining further market shares. Alongside the constant improvement of the process capability and cost efficiency of its blown film units, this year is to see the market launch of a new Enhanced Cooling Pac...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-08-06, Lightweight Construction: Sandwiches with Nap Cores
... layers of nap core in opposing directions markedly improves the specific properties of the nap core sandwich. Interlacing and bonding entail a further working step in which the two layers are pressed into each other by two tools whose rubber pins engage with the naps of the impregnated nap core. On compression, the rubber pins become shorter and thicker and so also ensure that the naps at the edges are properly bonded to each other. The tools are heated to cure the reactive resin. The core mate...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-28, A Personal Opinion: Has Injection Moulding been Fully Exhausted?
.... On the contrary – but are the universities not just providing a substitute for inadequately staffed and underbudgeted development managers in industry? Conversely, development managers often have much too little time to engage with the research results from universities and filter out any potential starting points for technical developments. An example of this is provided by the reports of the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV), Aachen/Germany, published in rotation, which from my point of...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-28, High-tech in a Holiday Region: With Clockwork Precision
... then constructed through to the point where they were ready for series production. We have now taken up work on the second part: we have prepared an ISO 7-class cleanroom and produced the moulds, so that we can engage in production in the first instance. But we are only at the outset – we still have to complete all the registration and certification processes. We will, however, be building new cleanrooms for this section next year and expanding our production surface area once again. Kunststof...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-11-04, Enhanced Productivity through Retrofits: Communication Boosts Business
...ot have standard interfaces to the next-highest communication level. Against this background, Phoenix Contact has developed a universal retrofit concept which is based consistently on internationally harmonised standards. The user is then able to engage in reliable planning for the next few years. Since use is made of standard components, spare parts are both cheap and easy to come by. The concept also provides open interfaces for subsequent integration in processes such as assembly and packagin...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-11-28, Form-fitting Aid: Plastic-metal Press Fits
...or this purpose the fitting length of the hub was unchanged and its internal diameter slightly increased but it was extended axially on one side and provided with six bores into which corresponding drive pins of the test device could engage (Fig. 7). For application of a moment through tangential forces on the outer contour it would not have been possible to retain the basic cylindrical geometry and the state of stress would have been altered in uncertain and complex fashion. Previous experience...
Kunststoffe international, 2007-03-15, Tensile Adhesion Test for Paint
...work was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (reference no. 16IN0111). We would like to thank Dr. Carsten Rehwinkel from Fluor Technik System GmbH for fluorinating the polymer materials and his willingness to engage in helpful discussion and Dr. Norbert Eckardt from Sura Instruments GmbH for the assistance he gave us in using individual atmospheric pressure methods. References 1. Habenicht, G.: Kleben – Grundlagen, Technologie, Anwendungen. 3. Aufl., Springe...
Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, The Benchmark at K is One Hundred Percent
...arty. We’re familiar with lots of exhibitions, in a wide range of countries, where you’re on your exhibition stand and virtually no visitors turn up. At the K exhibition, you are permanently under pressure, permanently engaged in discussions – with new ones starting every ten minutes. This positive and extremely hectic working atmosphere causes a rush of adrenalin. This gives K, as an event, a life of its own, which perhaps differs from reality. An emotional climate thus builds up at K, which ha...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-01-15, Elastomer Industry Has Understood
...s. They provide product developers with a precise tool for controlling molecular structure and therefore material properties. These elastomers are already in large-scale production and are being marketed under the trademark Engage. They are characterized not only by a low melt index, hardness values ranging from Shore A 60 to 90 and very low densities of 150°C long-term. For permanent operating temperatures in excess of 150°C, designers have until now been compelled to use costly silicone (VMQ) ...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, Off into that Most Prestigious of Disciplines!
...ld for the latest plastics, while permanent implants have not yet reached this stage. As far as the state of the art is concerned, permanent implants could certainly constitute an application for plastics. Those who harbor doubts should come and engage in the specialist discussions. Providing permanent treatment for an illness with an implant and replacing an expired function on a lifelong basis is an ethically commendable win/win situation for the patient and implant manufacturer alike: implant...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-05-10, The Rapid Aspect is not the Decisive Factor
...reedom in design that makes the difference then. Why is so little use made of this freedom? Langer: That is precisely the problem. We have to start at the universities, while the students are receiving their education. How can we engage in design without being blinkered? We have to show the students what they can achieve with this process. It ultimately makes no sense to design an injection molded part and then to produce it by laser sintering as a substitute process. Many of the advantages offe...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-06-16, We're Moving towards Specialties
...ignfabrik" and are now discussing our products with designers. This is how the Myto chair (Fig. 6) was created. In this segment as well we want to reach out to those who have influence over which plastics are used. That means we will have to engage much more intensively with decision makers in the highly fragmented construction, medical, domestic appliance, furniture and sport markets. Kunststoffe: How would you describe the partnership with plastics processors and end users? Has this chang...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-11-20, Problems with the Mold are no Longer the Responsibility of the Buyers
...s finished! Chinese companies are fast when it comes to building new molds. They have a much greater volume of weekly working time available to them, and Chinese mold builders do not engage in any analysis work, which saves an enormous amount of time. In Germany, 20 to 35 percent of the design time is lost through analysis work, the poor quality of article data, and the changes that are made during the design phase. The Chinese mold builders can still afford the luxury of simply accepting the ar...
Kunststoffe international, 2009-06-16, Cooperation with the Minister’s Blessing
...igned the agreement together with Prof. Peter Frankenberg, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Science in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe. The educational and research establishments are intending to conduct joint research, press ahead with projects and engage in exchanges of professors and students, particularly in the field of the development of lightweight parts for the automotive sector. The Canadian Minister, who was accompanied, inter alia, by the President ofWindsor University, Dr. Alan Wildeman, str...
Kunststoffe international, 2009-11-19, We’re Working on the Future
...have set our sights on are not yet far enough developed to compensate for this setback. Kunststoffe: A surprising realization – people don’t clean their teeth so much during times of crisis. Schmidt: Let’s say, people don’t engage in so much development work. We are hearing from our customers that the existing plants are still operating to full capacity at the moment – which means that the same number of brushes are being sold. There are just fewer new projects being started. Kunststoffe: How do...
Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Plastics Processing – Rapid and Reliable
...nerations. Great value is placed on ease of handling and the simple setup of the systems. The ongoing trend towards energy efficiency is similarly affecting automation too and is forcing the manufacturers to engage in constant further development work – a visit to the fair could thus certainly pay off. Fig. 1. The Viper robot series can be seen in a number of different applications (photo: Engel) Fig. 2. The new R8 control generation offers active collision protection (photo: Wittmann) Fig. 3. T...
Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Two Centuries of Polyolefins
...w Roads, New Goals Two companies finally enriched the market in 1991/92 with the new “plastomers” based on homogeneous catalysts: Exxon with the Exact and Dow with the Engage product range [19]. This not only broke the density barrier until that time of 900 kg/m3 and made products down to 840 kg/m3 accessible; the polymers were also characterized by a close molecular weight distribution and a homogeneous integration of the co-monomer. Contrary to the manufacturers’ initial expectations, however,...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-07-23, For More Climate Protection
...edgling class of materials which offers plenty of scope for environmentally sound solutions. As ever, with new technologies, concerns are often expressed about possible negative effects. This debate about the pros and cons is one we are happy to engage in and we are confident that, when it is over, we can find solutions which are acceptable to all parties involved and which are also good for the environment,”says Wolfgang Hapke, head of the Performance Polymers Division at BASF. Biodegradable po...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-10-15, The Age of Combined Processes is Dawning
...n be no compromises when it comes to aseptic production. The biggest hurdle in this respect is the documented evidence of the products’ sterility. The sector itself must take action here, engage in work to convince people and provide evidence, on the basis of standards, to the effect that plastics processing methods operate with completely different state variables from all other production processes. Prospects All in all, it is only possible to discuss a small portion of injection molding techn...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-11-26, This Will be an Exciting Year
...r events and believe the quality of interactions can often be stronger with this approach. The Husky World Tour allows us to focus on specific core markets, bringing together decision makers and experts from Husky and the rest of the industry to engage in comprehensive discussions that are rarely possible at busy industry events. Our approach will allow us to have more meaningful conversations about business economics and strategies amid the backof our latest technologies. Kunststoffe: Is it wor...
Kunststoffe international, 2013-01-28, Programmed to Have a Keen Memory
...nnovationskraftwerk.de). Information on the properties of the TPU material is set out on the platform and those with ideas can draw up product proposals, place them on the platform and engage in discussions about them with the project initiator. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing would like to thank the sponsors for their financial support of project EtiFGPTech (BMBF, Project No. 16V0043). The temporary deformation of TPU labels distorts the QR codes, w...
Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, Technological Leader from the Alpine Foothills
...f, Germany, in the foothills of the Alps, the Brückner group’s professed goal is to further enhance the excellent market positions of each single company of the group with their individual corporate strengths. First, this means it is important to engage in wellaimed research and development of machines and plants, in order to strengthen their position as technological leader, which the group has in virtually every sector today. For example, these techniques have recently been developed or modifi...
Kunststoffe international, 2014-02-20, Investing Heavily in Lightweight Construction
...thing more than fraudulent labeling.For many decades, automobiles have become heavier and heavier from one model to the next due to the constant enhancement of passenger comfort, driving dynamics and occupant safety. It is thus high time to engage in “genuine” lightweight construction. Experts consider that a great deal of potential still remains to be tapped here, since, in many cases, the triad of material, design and production technology has still not been configured in a truly harmonious ma...
Kunststoffe international, 2014-07-22, Concepts for Exciting Ideas
... für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, or the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.In the recent past, projects such as Material Grove or Sun Heat particularly stand out. In the Material Grove project, design students were asked to engage with current materials without any prescriptive brief. Not only plastics, but other materials, too, were included, such as leather. In the Sun Heat project, the focus was on the creative use of high-performance (polymer) materials for solar heating.Quite ...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-02-28, "We Want the Injection Moulding Driver Licence to Become a Recognized Standard"
...ompanies are having problems finding qualified personnel there. Asia is a fast growing market – by far the most injection molding machines in the world are manufactured and sold in China. It makes sense to engage with this region. In January 2014, we opened an office in Singapore, called GTC – "German Training Centre for Injection Moulding".Kunststoffe: How do you work in China?Kraft: We have a partner there in Anston Tan, who built up and headed an injection molding company on his own previousl...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-08-17, Full Order Books
...ersuade enough young people about the plastics processing profession, the company performs recruitment at schools and universities throughout Germany. Exhibition visits at university fairs are intended to awaken the students’ interest to engage with RKW and the plastics industry as a working student or trainee, in the form of an internship, in their final thesis. "The dynamism of a global player coupled with the reliability of a solidly financed family company – that is our benefit, which is att...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-12-17, Improving the Quality of Recycled Materials
...lyesters contaminated with (low amounts of) polyolefins. A number of different products are available as compatibilizers for polyolefin blends. Specifically for this purpose, polymer manufacturers offer polyolefin copolymers and elastomers, e. g. Engage 8100 (ethylene-octene copolymer, Dow Europe, Horgen, Switzerland), Infuse 9500 (polyolefin block copolymer, Dow Europe) and Entira EP (DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers). Further suitable alternatives are the Kraton grades (Kraton Performanc...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-02-17, Gas Injection Molding with Carbon Dioxide
... has been working with the new system, marking its industrial series production premiere. Dietmar Engel reflects positively on the cooperation between Linde and Maximator: "For us it was a stroke of luck that we were able to engage in this kind of basic research together with Linde. This joint development alliance gives us an early-adopter advantage that puts us at least one year ahead of the field."Conclusion: Further Applications in PlanningCompared with nitrogen, carbon dioxide in GIM applica...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-07-20, Accurate Determination of Preform Color
...tion systems can detect defect, but are not sensitive and repeatable enough to reliably detect the slightest of trends. This frequently proves unsatisfactory for converters, because the only way to obtain flawless batches in the event of doubt is to engage in sorting, and that lowers productivity. ColorWatcher Integrated pre-empts this by preventing defects from arising in the first place. To this end, the operator sets very narrow tolerances just above and below the nominal value. If the readin...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
...ctor product. Whereas with mineral fillers the expected trend towards increased use of nanoparticles has not really emerged, polyolefin elastomers and plastomers have commanded an important place as modifiers. Products such as Engage from Dow Chemical, Midland, MI/USA, Exact by Exxon Mobil Corp., Irving, TX/USA, or Queo from Borealis have to a large extent substituted classical elastomers such as ethylene-propylene rubber (EPM) or ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM). The crucial factor here i...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-11-30, A Treasure Trove of "Industry 4.0" Technologies
...d a virus into the company network and switched off entire production lines from the outside.Anyone who has been following the debate on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) lately will know that examples such as this are one reason for a certain reluctance to engage with this topic – despite IT security packages such as firewalls, VPN tunnels, encryption and certificate-based authentication. Nonetheless, any company that fails to grasp the opportunities that digital technologies open up for their business might...
Kunststoffe international, 2018-08-14, Taxes, Bans, and Regulations
... upcoming legislation concerning plastics has been defined through the EU plastics strategy: the plastics industry needs to become more circular. The best way to achieve this is through joint efforts on national and European level. Companies should engage in their national and European associations to fight for their interests.Changing the image of plastic products will be the main challenge in the coming years. To this end, several demanding actions have to be taken:Converting companies should ...
An American manufacturer and an invention team from Canada have developed and patented a formulation that can permanently protect plastic surfaces and metals from microbes. The technical active destroys the cell membrane of the germs without allowing them to adapt. It is applied in an online process after extrusion or thermoforming and then cured thermally or using UV light. ViaClean Technologies LLC has developed proprietary thermal, UV and hybrid cure antimicrobial treatment formulations, eith...
Kunststoffe international, Replacing Metal in the Gearbox
...the output shaft that drives the wheels. However, they are not permanently connected to this shaft. A shifter sleeve is needed to manipulate a synchronizer ring to create a positive lock between a selected gear and the shaft, i. e. to engage that gear, so that the power from the engine can be transmitted via the counter shaft. This shifter sleeve itself is moved by the shifter fork (Title figure), and anyone with an appreciation of the forces that a car engine can develop will understand just ho...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, A Systematic Approach to Micro-Injection Moulding
...sistance - coatability, and - the homogeneity of the structure. It is also essential for the geometric design of the component to be suitably tailored to the injection moulding process through having the customer, mould builder and injection moulder engage in close cooperation on the project. Consideration should be paid to subsequent series-production conditions at the prototype phase already, and these conditions should be specified for the most part. This not only includes the concept for the...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Cost Accounting Software: For Users with a Sure Touch
...erning product lifetime, number of parts, costs of mould and transport, financing and other details (for example, overheads), it calculates the unit price, including the desired profit. If this margin is not attainable, the user then has to engage in the magic art of playing around with parameters. Adds Schmale: "The expert, for example, plays around with the cycle times and attempts to optimise the lists downwards". The user can then print out the full costing, including that for the di...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: A Healthy Approach
...oduction volume of Germany's core machinery business attained a value of EUR 4360 million in 2003, with three-quarters of this sum generated by exports. The sector certainly needs have no qualms about ascribing this success to its readiness to engage in new developments. Two factors are particularly striking here. Firstly, China is now the biggest single market for machinery from Germany, having displaced the USA from the top position it held for many years. And, secondly, the share of the C...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: Better, Not Cheaper
...Company controllers have already done a great deal of harm with their red pencils here. A large number of Institutes will be presenting themselves and their projects at the forthcoming "K" trade fair. Let us take this opportunity to engage in initial talks or to build further on already-established contacts. Gerhard Gotzmann
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Editorial: Securing Margins
...ket situation. A further positive aspect is that the tonnages offered are guaranteed to be available on the dates agreed on. It is still not necessary to actually take physical delivery of the goods at the exchange – it is quite possible to simply engage in the purely monetary aspect of futures contracts in order to hedge against price increases at a traditional supplier's. The benefits are clear: long-term supply contracts can be secured by raw materials contracts in such a way that both c...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Elastomers: Flexible and Customised
... panels where, for example, a hard TPO replaces the ABS material normally used for the carrier, while a crosslinked polyolefin foam takes the place of PU. The trim consists of soft TPO as a fogging-free alternative to PVC (achieved with the Engage modifier from DuPont Dow Elastomers). TPE can now also offer flame retardancy. For the first time, the styrene block copolymers Vitaprene 8013 and 8010 (Vita Thermoplastic Polymers) have been given a UL V0 and V2 listing under the international UL sta...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Engineering Network: Additional Knowledge Instead of Competition
...moved into a new production facility in the Wilhelmsdorf industrial zone. One milestone was the production of the cavity floors for office and industrial buildings, which were new at that time. Right from the very start, Jacob set out not to engage in predatory competition but to develop a business that involved intensive know-how for niche markets. "I dislike the word converter, because it degrades the work that we do. The approach that was adopted in the Sixties (machinery and raw material...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Exhibition Preview: North American and Canadian Products at K 2004
...ex 338, an ABS-based impact modifier for rigid PVC fencing and siding. It is said to have excellent weatherability. DuPont Dow Elastomers, Wilmington/Delaware, will feature seven new grades of Engage polyolefin elastomers (POEs). They are ethylene-butene copolymers targeted for automotive TPOs, wire/cable, and consumer applications. They boast an excellent combination of melt strength, impact enhancement, and clarity for blow molding, sheet extrusion, and thermoforming. Some of the latest automo...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Functional Compounds
...r this filler material in plastics. Acknowledgements Special thanks go to Dr. G. Wilbert (Clariant, Gersthofen/Germany) and Dr. E. Licht (Basell, Bayreuth/Germany) for the supply of materials, as well as for their support and constant readiness to engage in discussions. Particular thanks are also extended to the staff of the Geo-Research Centre in Potsdam/Germany, and especially to Dr. F. Schilling, for their rapid and straightforward assistance with the thermal conductivity measurements. The...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Hybrid Moulding: Getting the Combination Right
... tooling may be fast, but suffers from the disadvantages mentioned above concerning surface properties and durability. This situation and a willingness to deploy new technologies encouraged the company Eisenhuth Formenbau, Osterode/Germany, to engage in extensive empirical testing and perform several research projects in this area and this has finally paid off in a combination that may be aptly described as hybrid moulding. A hybrid mould consists essentially of metal/laser-sintered mould insert...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Injection Moulding for Medical Technology: Parts Handling in the Cleanroom
... sector accessible to authorised personnel, where they can be manually unloaded. Summary The automation of this cleanroom production plant for membrane fixing rings has led to a highly efficient production, checking and packing system that can engage in fully autonomous production over a period of 80min. The cycle time per part (material: PVDF) is 40s, and the intervention time for parts and sprue removal is just 3.5s. Consequently, despite the complex, multi-functional gripper system, the robo...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Innovation and Efficiency: Bayer: Success by Splitting the Plastics Activities?
...its products and services specifically to individual customer needs in various markets and world regions. Because it is forecast to show positive growth, the Asian market takes special importance. "We will engage particularly strongly in China", explains Koemm. As an example, he quoted the current strategic challenge of building up a site for manufacturing halobutyl rubber in Asia so as to have a presence there with the necessary capacities at competitive prices. The main client industr...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Interview: The Benefits of Joining Ranks
...turing of the Bayer Group and on its assessment of the markets in the polyurethane sector. The restructuring of the Bayer Group has repeatedly prompted discussions in the polyurethane market as to the future of Hennecke GmbH, a Bayer Group company engaged in the field of polyurethane technology. Kunststoffe plast europe spoke with Rudolf Brumund, Managing Director at Hennecke, Volker Brüninghaus, Head of Automotive, and Dr.-Ing. Michael Begemann, Head of Rigid and Flexible Foam Lines. Kunst...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Interview: “Ensuring Sustainable Development”
... more, this entails an intensive exchange of knowledge and experience. In this regard, we can offer not only specialties and innovative products, but also, and especially, our chemical expertise, which will continue to grow as we engage in dialogue with our customers. Kunststoffe: What results is BASF seeking to achieve in the plastics area with this objective? Feldmann: In the last few years, we have realigned our global plastics business and substantially expanded it. In doing so, we have conc...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Meaningful Aid or Expense?
...e shrinkage and warpage analysed. It is difficult to accumulate the experience of a service provider in-house. Costs learning in the hard way are usually not considered in cost accounting. Examples show that also individual large companies prefer to engage service providers for simulations instead of investing themselves. Others outsource a large fraction of their projects. CAD Coupling Must Still Be Improved Additionally there is the question of time limitations. Also communication and inform...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Plastic, the All-purpose Material: Function in Form
...urface without swimming or diving, they can turn to the transparent polycarbonate kayak developed by GE Plastics (grade: Lexan; Fig.9). The kayakers can decide for themselves whether to engage in active sport or just discover the underwater world [3]. For a mobile holiday, many choose a caravan or motor caravan. Plastics are finding increasing use here, too. Glass fibre-reinforced plastics manufacturers often use them in combination with other materials. To bond the different substrates together...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene (PP)
...ld of non-reactive modification, metallocene plastomers (PE-LLD with very high butane or octane concentrations) have, in the meantime, also emerged as a new class of impact modifiers. Notable examples include Dow’s Engage and DEX Plastomers’ Exact products. Compared with conventional elastomers, such as EPR or EPDM, these materials have the advantage of being available in a wide MFR range, which extends their usability to high-flow compounds [8]. As well as fulfilling mechanical properties, they...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Portait: Pointers to the Future
...sively to customer drawings. Our sales activities are not geared up for marketing our own products”. But no matter what they engage in the future, the maxim remains: “The family business must stay independent”. Clemens Doriat Company Data Company name: A. Maier Präzision Type of company: GmbH Shareholders: 6 family branches of the brothers Arthur, Albrecht, Albert, Alfred, Adolf, Arnold Maier Location: Gewerbehallestr. 1-3, D-78112 St. Georgen Internet address: www.a-maier.de Production cent...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Strategies for Cooling Moulds
... Emould GmbH, Aachen; - Hella KG, Lippstadt; - M-Tec, Herzogenrath; - GTT-Steinko, Nassau; - Vygon, Aachen; - ISK, Iserlohn, as well as many other discussion partners for their readiness to provide information and engage in discussions. The Author of this Article Martin Koch, Aachen Contact: koch@ikv.rwth-aachen.de Fig. 1. Influence of the cavity wall temperature on part properties Fig. 2. Change in temperature over time at various sites on the injection mould Temperatur = Temperature; Werk...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Tailored EPDM
...ty and an even broader range of applications than was hitherto possible with EPDM products. With the introduction of single-site catalysts with fixed geometry (CGC), a new class of polyolefin elastomers was born [1, 2, 3]. Following the success of Engage ethylene-octene copolymers, and the completion of DuPont Dow Elastomer's range of Nordel IP EPDM polymers, further ethylene copolymers based on metallocene technology are now poised for market launch. Nordel IP is the first mass-produced E...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, The Future Role of the Plastics Producers
The Future Role of the Plastics Producers Strategic Decisions at the Start of the 21st Century Thomas L. Hensel, Frankfurt am Main/Germany Pressure on earnings and margins is forcing plastics producers to engage in a strategic realignment of their structures. The services that have been offered to date are coming under close scrutiny. New corporate models make a distinction between suppliers of standard products, innovators, problem-solving partners and service providers. Networks and virt...
Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE)
...s it possible to observe tight tolerances. Hose lines of this type are in use on different makes of car and truck where they are subject to pressures of 25 to 40bars at long-term service temperatures of up to 120°C. Polyolefins modified with the Engage polyolefin elastomer manufactured by DuPont Dow Elastomers, Geneva/Switzerland, are particularly suitable for thermoforming and can be used for parts in the car interior, for example (Fig.6). This permits balanced properties to be achieved at both...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-02-23, Surface Activation: Effectiveness of Pretreatment
... are being carried out at present. Acknowledgement This work was partly funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (reference no. 16IN0111). We would like to thank Mr Rehwinkel from Fluor Technik System GmbH for his willingness to engage in helpful discussion. References 1 Schröder, B.; Reichl, R.; Kopf, M.; Brockmann, W.; Jopp H.: Klebtechnikeinsatz bei der Herstellung medizinischer Instrumente. kleben & dichten vol. 42, 11/98, pp. 16–21 2 Brunotte, R.; Kolz, H.; Nagel, J.: Inl...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-03-23, Lanxess: Moving Boldly into the Future
...ases, are obsolete and unsuitable. This then results in excessively high costs. By hiving off this segment into an independent company, Fine Chemicals is now to be given the opportunity to produce its products at a competitive cost and engage in custom manufacturing. At the same time, this will put the business unit in a position to stand its ground in the international arena. At the start of the year the new company was launched under the name Saltigo (based on the Italian word for "jump...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-07-31, Blown Film Technology: Strategic Realignment Makes for Success
...n not only means fulfilling customers wishes but also understanding the wishes of the customers’ customers (film refiners and users) too. The focus is thus also on “the customer’s customer”. The company is intending to engage in a technology drive and to grow still further, under its own steam, gaining further market shares. Alongside the constant improvement of the process capability and cost efficiency of its blown film units, this year is to see the market launch of a new Enhanced Cooling Pac...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-08-06, Lightweight Construction: Sandwiches with Nap Cores
... layers of nap core in opposing directions markedly improves the specific properties of the nap core sandwich. Interlacing and bonding entail a further working step in which the two layers are pressed into each other by two tools whose rubber pins engage with the naps of the impregnated nap core. On compression, the rubber pins become shorter and thicker and so also ensure that the naps at the edges are properly bonded to each other. The tools are heated to cure the reactive resin. The core mate...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-28, A Personal Opinion: Has Injection Moulding been Fully Exhausted?
.... On the contrary – but are the universities not just providing a substitute for inadequately staffed and underbudgeted development managers in industry? Conversely, development managers often have much too little time to engage with the research results from universities and filter out any potential starting points for technical developments. An example of this is provided by the reports of the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV), Aachen/Germany, published in rotation, which from my point of...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-28, High-tech in a Holiday Region: With Clockwork Precision
... then constructed through to the point where they were ready for series production. We have now taken up work on the second part: we have prepared an ISO 7-class cleanroom and produced the moulds, so that we can engage in production in the first instance. But we are only at the outset – we still have to complete all the registration and certification processes. We will, however, be building new cleanrooms for this section next year and expanding our production surface area once again. Kunststof...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-11-04, Enhanced Productivity through Retrofits: Communication Boosts Business
...ot have standard interfaces to the next-highest communication level. Against this background, Phoenix Contact has developed a universal retrofit concept which is based consistently on internationally harmonised standards. The user is then able to engage in reliable planning for the next few years. Since use is made of standard components, spare parts are both cheap and easy to come by. The concept also provides open interfaces for subsequent integration in processes such as assembly and packagin...
Kunststoffe international, 2006-11-28, Form-fitting Aid: Plastic-metal Press Fits
...or this purpose the fitting length of the hub was unchanged and its internal diameter slightly increased but it was extended axially on one side and provided with six bores into which corresponding drive pins of the test device could engage (Fig. 7). For application of a moment through tangential forces on the outer contour it would not have been possible to retain the basic cylindrical geometry and the state of stress would have been altered in uncertain and complex fashion. Previous experience...
Kunststoffe international, 2007-03-15, Tensile Adhesion Test for Paint
...work was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (reference no. 16IN0111). We would like to thank Dr. Carsten Rehwinkel from Fluor Technik System GmbH for fluorinating the polymer materials and his willingness to engage in helpful discussion and Dr. Norbert Eckardt from Sura Instruments GmbH for the assistance he gave us in using individual atmospheric pressure methods. References 1. Habenicht, G.: Kleben – Grundlagen, Technologie, Anwendungen. 3. Aufl., Springe...
Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, The Benchmark at K is One Hundred Percent
...arty. We’re familiar with lots of exhibitions, in a wide range of countries, where you’re on your exhibition stand and virtually no visitors turn up. At the K exhibition, you are permanently under pressure, permanently engaged in discussions – with new ones starting every ten minutes. This positive and extremely hectic working atmosphere causes a rush of adrenalin. This gives K, as an event, a life of its own, which perhaps differs from reality. An emotional climate thus builds up at K, which ha...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-01-15, Elastomer Industry Has Understood
...s. They provide product developers with a precise tool for controlling molecular structure and therefore material properties. These elastomers are already in large-scale production and are being marketed under the trademark Engage. They are characterized not only by a low melt index, hardness values ranging from Shore A 60 to 90 and very low densities of 150°C long-term. For permanent operating temperatures in excess of 150°C, designers have until now been compelled to use costly silicone (VMQ) ...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, Off into that Most Prestigious of Disciplines!
...ld for the latest plastics, while permanent implants have not yet reached this stage. As far as the state of the art is concerned, permanent implants could certainly constitute an application for plastics. Those who harbor doubts should come and engage in the specialist discussions. Providing permanent treatment for an illness with an implant and replacing an expired function on a lifelong basis is an ethically commendable win/win situation for the patient and implant manufacturer alike: implant...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-05-10, The Rapid Aspect is not the Decisive Factor
...reedom in design that makes the difference then. Why is so little use made of this freedom? Langer: That is precisely the problem. We have to start at the universities, while the students are receiving their education. How can we engage in design without being blinkered? We have to show the students what they can achieve with this process. It ultimately makes no sense to design an injection molded part and then to produce it by laser sintering as a substitute process. Many of the advantages offe...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-06-16, We're Moving towards Specialties
...ignfabrik" and are now discussing our products with designers. This is how the Myto chair (Fig. 6) was created. In this segment as well we want to reach out to those who have influence over which plastics are used. That means we will have to engage much more intensively with decision makers in the highly fragmented construction, medical, domestic appliance, furniture and sport markets. Kunststoffe: How would you describe the partnership with plastics processors and end users? Has this chang...
Kunststoffe international, 2008-11-20, Problems with the Mold are no Longer the Responsibility of the Buyers
...s finished! Chinese companies are fast when it comes to building new molds. They have a much greater volume of weekly working time available to them, and Chinese mold builders do not engage in any analysis work, which saves an enormous amount of time. In Germany, 20 to 35 percent of the design time is lost through analysis work, the poor quality of article data, and the changes that are made during the design phase. The Chinese mold builders can still afford the luxury of simply accepting the ar...
Kunststoffe international, 2009-06-16, Cooperation with the Minister’s Blessing
...igned the agreement together with Prof. Peter Frankenberg, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Science in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe. The educational and research establishments are intending to conduct joint research, press ahead with projects and engage in exchanges of professors and students, particularly in the field of the development of lightweight parts for the automotive sector. The Canadian Minister, who was accompanied, inter alia, by the President ofWindsor University, Dr. Alan Wildeman, str...
Kunststoffe international, 2009-11-19, We’re Working on the Future
...have set our sights on are not yet far enough developed to compensate for this setback. Kunststoffe: A surprising realization – people don’t clean their teeth so much during times of crisis. Schmidt: Let’s say, people don’t engage in so much development work. We are hearing from our customers that the existing plants are still operating to full capacity at the moment – which means that the same number of brushes are being sold. There are just fewer new projects being started. Kunststoffe: How do...
Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Plastics Processing – Rapid and Reliable
...nerations. Great value is placed on ease of handling and the simple setup of the systems. The ongoing trend towards energy efficiency is similarly affecting automation too and is forcing the manufacturers to engage in constant further development work – a visit to the fair could thus certainly pay off. Fig. 1. The Viper robot series can be seen in a number of different applications (photo: Engel) Fig. 2. The new R8 control generation offers active collision protection (photo: Wittmann) Fig. 3. T...
Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Two Centuries of Polyolefins
...w Roads, New Goals Two companies finally enriched the market in 1991/92 with the new “plastomers” based on homogeneous catalysts: Exxon with the Exact and Dow with the Engage product range [19]. This not only broke the density barrier until that time of 900 kg/m3 and made products down to 840 kg/m3 accessible; the polymers were also characterized by a close molecular weight distribution and a homogeneous integration of the co-monomer. Contrary to the manufacturers’ initial expectations, however,...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-07-23, For More Climate Protection
...edgling class of materials which offers plenty of scope for environmentally sound solutions. As ever, with new technologies, concerns are often expressed about possible negative effects. This debate about the pros and cons is one we are happy to engage in and we are confident that, when it is over, we can find solutions which are acceptable to all parties involved and which are also good for the environment,”says Wolfgang Hapke, head of the Performance Polymers Division at BASF. Biodegradable po...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-10-15, The Age of Combined Processes is Dawning
...n be no compromises when it comes to aseptic production. The biggest hurdle in this respect is the documented evidence of the products’ sterility. The sector itself must take action here, engage in work to convince people and provide evidence, on the basis of standards, to the effect that plastics processing methods operate with completely different state variables from all other production processes. Prospects All in all, it is only possible to discuss a small portion of injection molding techn...
Kunststoffe international, 2012-11-26, This Will be an Exciting Year
...r events and believe the quality of interactions can often be stronger with this approach. The Husky World Tour allows us to focus on specific core markets, bringing together decision makers and experts from Husky and the rest of the industry to engage in comprehensive discussions that are rarely possible at busy industry events. Our approach will allow us to have more meaningful conversations about business economics and strategies amid the backof our latest technologies. Kunststoffe: Is it wor...
Kunststoffe international, 2013-01-28, Programmed to Have a Keen Memory
...nnovationskraftwerk.de). Information on the properties of the TPU material is set out on the platform and those with ideas can draw up product proposals, place them on the platform and engage in discussions about them with the project initiator. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing would like to thank the sponsors for their financial support of project EtiFGPTech (BMBF, Project No. 16V0043). The temporary deformation of TPU labels distorts the QR codes, w...
Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, Technological Leader from the Alpine Foothills
...f, Germany, in the foothills of the Alps, the Brückner group’s professed goal is to further enhance the excellent market positions of each single company of the group with their individual corporate strengths. First, this means it is important to engage in wellaimed research and development of machines and plants, in order to strengthen their position as technological leader, which the group has in virtually every sector today. For example, these techniques have recently been developed or modifi...
Kunststoffe international, 2014-02-20, Investing Heavily in Lightweight Construction
...thing more than fraudulent labeling.For many decades, automobiles have become heavier and heavier from one model to the next due to the constant enhancement of passenger comfort, driving dynamics and occupant safety. It is thus high time to engage in “genuine” lightweight construction. Experts consider that a great deal of potential still remains to be tapped here, since, in many cases, the triad of material, design and production technology has still not been configured in a truly harmonious ma...
Kunststoffe international, 2014-07-22, Concepts for Exciting Ideas
... für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, or the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.In the recent past, projects such as Material Grove or Sun Heat particularly stand out. In the Material Grove project, design students were asked to engage with current materials without any prescriptive brief. Not only plastics, but other materials, too, were included, such as leather. In the Sun Heat project, the focus was on the creative use of high-performance (polymer) materials for solar heating.Quite ...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-02-28, "We Want the Injection Moulding Driver Licence to Become a Recognized Standard"
...ompanies are having problems finding qualified personnel there. Asia is a fast growing market – by far the most injection molding machines in the world are manufactured and sold in China. It makes sense to engage with this region. In January 2014, we opened an office in Singapore, called GTC – "German Training Centre for Injection Moulding".Kunststoffe: How do you work in China?Kraft: We have a partner there in Anston Tan, who built up and headed an injection molding company on his own previousl...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-08-17, Full Order Books
...ersuade enough young people about the plastics processing profession, the company performs recruitment at schools and universities throughout Germany. Exhibition visits at university fairs are intended to awaken the students’ interest to engage with RKW and the plastics industry as a working student or trainee, in the form of an internship, in their final thesis. "The dynamism of a global player coupled with the reliability of a solidly financed family company – that is our benefit, which is att...
Kunststoffe international, 2015-12-17, Improving the Quality of Recycled Materials
...lyesters contaminated with (low amounts of) polyolefins. A number of different products are available as compatibilizers for polyolefin blends. Specifically for this purpose, polymer manufacturers offer polyolefin copolymers and elastomers, e. g. Engage 8100 (ethylene-octene copolymer, Dow Europe, Horgen, Switzerland), Infuse 9500 (polyolefin block copolymer, Dow Europe) and Entira EP (DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers). Further suitable alternatives are the Kraton grades (Kraton Performanc...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-02-17, Gas Injection Molding with Carbon Dioxide
... has been working with the new system, marking its industrial series production premiere. Dietmar Engel reflects positively on the cooperation between Linde and Maximator: "For us it was a stroke of luck that we were able to engage in this kind of basic research together with Linde. This joint development alliance gives us an early-adopter advantage that puts us at least one year ahead of the field."Conclusion: Further Applications in PlanningCompared with nitrogen, carbon dioxide in GIM applica...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-07-20, Accurate Determination of Preform Color
...tion systems can detect defect, but are not sensitive and repeatable enough to reliably detect the slightest of trends. This frequently proves unsatisfactory for converters, because the only way to obtain flawless batches in the event of doubt is to engage in sorting, and that lowers productivity. ColorWatcher Integrated pre-empts this by preventing defects from arising in the first place. To this end, the operator sets very narrow tolerances just above and below the nominal value. If the readin...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
...ctor product. Whereas with mineral fillers the expected trend towards increased use of nanoparticles has not really emerged, polyolefin elastomers and plastomers have commanded an important place as modifiers. Products such as Engage from Dow Chemical, Midland, MI/USA, Exact by Exxon Mobil Corp., Irving, TX/USA, or Queo from Borealis have to a large extent substituted classical elastomers such as ethylene-propylene rubber (EPM) or ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM). The crucial factor here i...
Kunststoffe international, 2016-11-30, A Treasure Trove of "Industry 4.0" Technologies
...d a virus into the company network and switched off entire production lines from the outside.Anyone who has been following the debate on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) lately will know that examples such as this are one reason for a certain reluctance to engage with this topic – despite IT security packages such as firewalls, VPN tunnels, encryption and certificate-based authentication. Nonetheless, any company that fails to grasp the opportunities that digital technologies open up for their business might...
Kunststoffe international, 2018-08-14, Taxes, Bans, and Regulations
... upcoming legislation concerning plastics has been defined through the EU plastics strategy: the plastics industry needs to become more circular. The best way to achieve this is through joint efforts on national and European level. Companies should engage in their national and European associations to fight for their interests.Changing the image of plastic products will be the main challenge in the coming years. To this end, several demanding actions have to be taken:Converting companies should ...
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