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Smart Molding International 1-2025

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Events

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Automotive Medical Optics Packaging Preforms & closures Technical molding

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Blending Chilling and cooling Decorating and marking Degating Dosing Drying Equipment cleaning Joining and assembling Parts handling Purging Recycling Мaterial handling

Molding technologies

Blow Molding Cleanroom molding Foaming Gas‐assisted injection molding IML & IMD Injection‐compression molding Inmold coating Insert molding Micromolding Multicomponent molding Powder injection molding Reaction injection molding Thin‐wall injection molding Variotherm process Water‐assisted injection molding

Shows

27. - 30.

May 2025

Green Plast

Milan, Italy

08. - 15.

October 2025

Düsseldorf,

Germany

18. - 21.

November 2025

Formnext

Frankfurt am Main,

Germany

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Fiber-reinforced chassis for light commercial vehicles

Sustainable solution with polyurethane resin / High productivity through continuous production / Simple assembly, superior crash performance

Articles

Wear-free process monitoring during production

New HASCO presents new proximity switches for precise, contact-free position monitoring

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News

News 29.10.2015

Injection molding simulation software to boost productivity

The newest iteration of plastic injection molding software from Transvalor S.A. includes several new features designed to improve engineering productivity and efficiency.

News 26.10.2015

Zahoransky brings more automation to the mold with SPCS Light

German mold maker Zahoransky Formenbau GmbH demonstrated its new SPCS Light technology at Fakuma.

News 23.10.2015

Arburg to present high speed IML application at Plast Eurasia 2015

News 22.10.2015

Plastikos' automation investment yields medical contract

News 20.10.2015

Automatically optimise clamping force

A new software tool that automatically determines and adapts the optimum clamping force for each individual application based on mould breathing.

News 15.10.2015

Sepro celebrates 'another record year' at Fakuma

News 14.10.2015

The portal to opportunity? KraussMaffei pioneers Plastics 4.0

Plastics' answer to Industry 4.0 is Plastics 4.0, says KraussMaffei, with this innovative combination of optimising machinery together with intelligent software and communication.

News 14.10.2015

inject 4.0 – the answer for a smart factory

At Fakuma 2015, ENGEL is presenting products and solutions that are already available today to support production optimisation towards the goals of the "Industry 4.0" concept.