With around 100 guests and senior management in attendance, Arburg France celebrated 40 years as the company’s first international subsidiary and a key pillar of its worldwide service and sales network.

Lego’s new Holiday Express Train hides a historic innovation: the first-ever 3D-printed element in a retail Lego set — a tiny blue locomotive that signals a new era in brick design.

At K 2025, Arburg will showcase the “Nextgen Medical Solution” developed in collaboration with Sanofi and partners Hack Formenbau and HB-Therm. The turnkey production cell for injector pen caps demonstrates how early cooperation, digital networking and intelligent assistance systems can reduce costs, energy use and footprint while ensuring high part quality and productivity in medical technology.

For greater process reliability and a wider process window in injection moulding, as well as significantly longer maintenance intervals, Dressel + Höfner Automotive now relies on DLC-coated ejector pins for venting from standard parts manufacturer Knarr as a matter of course in its injection moulding tools.

Arburg is exiting the additive manufacturing market by the end of 2025 to refocus on its core injection moulding business — while ensuring full service and spare parts support for existing Freeformer users.

At the K trade fair, Japan Steel Works will spotlight its fully electric JADS injection moulding machines, delivering precision, speed and sustainability from 800 to 6,500 kN clamping force – backed by a strong European service and support network.

Efficient temperature management is crucial in injection moulding. With its portfolio of thermal insulating sheets, Hasco offers mouldmakers reliable solutions to minimise heat loss, increase process stability and achieve significant energy savings.

With a new R0.2 corner radius square head, Tungaloy Corporation extends its Tungmeister range to meet growing demand for very small corner radii. The solution combines solid end mill–level precision with the flexibility, efficiency and reduced setup times of an exchangeable-head system for precision parts and mould machining.

Magnetfabrik Bonn, one of the leading magnet producers in Germany, always opt for safety first when it comes to quality. For more than two decades, they have been using Hasco filters. They have now tested the new model H5055/... in practice, with a positive result and the expectation of extra added value for the customer.

At K 2025 in Düsseldorf, the plastics industry focuses on young talent. With special formats such as the Young Talents Tour, the GKV Lounge, VDMA’s “Young Talents Time” and Career Sunday, school pupils, students and young professionals gain exclusive insights into training, study and career opportunities — free admission on 12 October included.