Highest-level toolmaking, plastics technology and assembly from a single source — that’ s what Werkzeugbau und Kunststofftechnik Mayweg offers. The company has three locations, 250 employees and 33 million euros in sales, and a fully automated milling and electrical-discharge-machining cell from Exeron that helps meet even the highest customer requirements for precision, speed and economy.

The melting of thermoplastic materials requires temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius. In many cases, thermal separation of the injection-moulding machine from the mould mounted in it is essential, if only for safety reasons.

The top themes of K 2022 include circular economy, digitalization and climate protection. The Lehvoss Group will be represented its solutions for these trends offered by a total of five business units.

UK — Following major acquisitions between 2010 and 2012, most market experts expected the 3D printing market to consolidate very soon. But this consolidation process never happened — will it happen now?

In a research project, several companies have joined forces to develop a manufacturing process for components made from recycled glass fibers — the first product is a battery housing cover for e-cars.

The growth potential for AM materials differs from printing equipment, as operational legacy printers continue to consume materials. Therefore, this segment of the 3D printing value chain represents a tremendous opportunity: ID Tech Ex forecasts that the global market for 3D printing materials will be worth 29.5 billion dollars in 2032.

With the increasing popularity and advancement of 3D printing, the need for specialised materials is growing accordingly. This article gives an overview of the most important plastics, metals and other materials used in 3D printing.

At the Mindelheim-based company BBG, an end-to-end line for finishing glass with polyurethane (PUR) is being set up to demonstrate and test the results of a research project. The project “EKI — Engineering for AI-based Automation in Production Environments” is intended to pave the way for the intelligent adaptation of production systems to changing requirements and environmental conditions, for example in order to manufacture new variants of a product.

According to a new market research report the global automotive plastics market size for passenger cars is projected to grow from 21.1 billion dollars in 2021 to 30.8 billion dollars by 2026, at a CAGR of 7.9 percent during the forecast period 2021 to 2026.

How does a company transition from manufacturing small parts to the micro-scale? Can these parts be produced cost-effectively? What is important when partnering with another company?