Wirthwein Medical, a system supplier for medical technology based in the Odenwald region of Germany, has been using Hasco’s quality standard mould units for many years now. With the help of the new multicoupling system Z8094ff, the set-up times for the production of measuring vials has been halved.

In the space of six years, Marco Schülken has thoroughly transformed the Thuringian toolmaking company he took over in 2015. With his 30 employees, he was able to attract customers in various sectors and enter new markets, including the ones abroad. Mapal came into play when looking at optimising production processes.

Ground ball screws, linear roller guides and super-precision ball bearings from NSK are helping Imsa to consolidate its position in the field of specialised deep-hole drilling machines, which are particularly popular for mould-making applications in the automotive sector.

Additive manufacturing has seen a rise in popularity due to Covid-19. How and why was 3D printing so useful and how can it be used beyond the pandemic.

For companies that are exploring the possibilities of micro moulding, there are some seemingly daunting obstacles that exist, not least the vagaries of the micro moulding process itself.

Both, Arburg and Hasco, are well-known names in the plastics processing industry. But what happens when the market leaders come together with their respective specialty fields?

Value takes many forms. But for one Italian company specialising in automotive and industrial DC motor production, Sumitomo(SHI) Demag is much more than a machinery supplier. The affinity, consultancy support and practical guidance supplied by over the last two decades has proved invaluable to Electro-Parts who embarked on launching a dedicated in-house moulding facility in 2002.

Mold-Masters introduced its new Smartmold injection mould monitoring system, a cloud-based software platform dedicated to the plastics industry providing real-time data to drive injection molding innovation.

Supplies of standard parts, Starck Norma, will present its new products for tool and mould making at Kuteno, the subcontracting fair for the plastics processing industry, from 10 to 12 May in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany.

Linear guides and rolling bearings from NSK find use in many advanced automation systems for plastic injection moulding processes, including the industrial robots manufactured by Campetella Robotic Center.