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Smart Molding International 1-2025

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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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Сase studies

Automation brings advancement

Erwin Quarder Systemtechnik GmbH uses the turnkey system for producing millions of coil shells, implemented with assistance from ARBURG.

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Kistler tackles in-line quality control

Zero-defect molding is the goal USA-based Kistler Instrument Corp. expects molders to achieve with the development of several sensor and data management technologies for monitoring pressure in the mold of the injection process.

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South Korean automation expertise

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AMRAZ is delighted with its new IML system

AMRAZ has just started-up a WITTMANN IML system in order to produce a food packaging item for the drinks industry.

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Molds in the Machine

Machine-vision system inspects plastic moldings for the food industry.

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Robots make food storage container assembly a snap

Vision guided robotic vision systems are used to automate the assembly of plastic food containers.

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Smart vision system inspects bucket labels

A manufacturer of plastic containers has deployed a vision system to inspect the labels on circular buckets

Videos

Plastics solutions by SAS Automation

Custom tools for injection molded product applications and the patented in-mold labeling (IML) process in action.