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02. - 05.

June 2026

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Barcelona,

Spain

02. - 04.

June 2026

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Birmingham,

13. - 17.

October 2026

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Friedrichshafen,

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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

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Wear-free process monitoring during production

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

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News

News 15.06.2016

Tinius Olsen will be an exclusive distributor of Axxicon's quick change molds in Americas

News 15.06.2016

Magma Global and Victrex 3D print 10,000 foot long PEEK subsea m-pipe for oil and gas production

News 15.06.2016

Chinese metal injection moulding producer Zoltrix to increase production capacity

China’s Metal Injection Moulding industry has grown tremendously over the past decade, in part as a result of the huge demand from the consumer electronics sector. Zoltrix Material International Limited, based in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, has reported that it is now increasing capacity in order to grow its presence in the automotive, medical and smart wearable sectors.

The company has a strong track record in the high volume production of aesthetic components for the consumer electronics and luxury markets and has been manufacturing MIM parts since the mind 1990s.

Zoltrix, which operates more the 250 injection molding machines, told PIM International that three new continuous sintering furnaces will be installed by the end of 2016.

Zoltrix is part of CN Innovations (CNI), a business of the Hong-Kong based Chung Nam Group of companies.

News 15.06.2016

A Husky Company wins Process Innovation Supplier of the Year award

Schöttli has been awarded a prestigious Process Innovation Supplier award from Becton Dickinson, a leading global medical technology company.

News 14.06.2016

Haitian opens a second factory in Germany

The new building has 7,500 sqm manufacturing area and will be used for assembling of servo-hydraulic machines of the Mars II and Jupiter II Series.

new building

News 07.06.2016

ENGEL North America hosts an event for automotive molders

To present the latest trends in automotive molding technologies, ENGEL is inviting automotive industry molders to the ENGEL trend.scaut America 2016.

News 07.06.2016

US custom molder adds two presses

HTI Plastics announced it has installed two new Sodick presses.

News 06.06.2016

Wittmann Battenfeld supplied a workcell to UMass Lowell's lab

A new Wittmann Battenfeld EcoPower injection molding machine workcell was officially dedicated at the opening of UMass Lowell’s renovated Plastics Engineering Lab.