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October 2025

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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 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 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.

News 13.10.2015

Arburg promotes Industry 4.0 at Fakuma

Arburg has spearheaded the Industry 4.0 zeitgeist at Fakuma, combining innovative technology with its Allrounder and Freeformer.

News 10.10.2015

Arburg hosts Industry 4.0 data exchange meeting

Arburg in Lossburg hosted a meeting of control system and software developers from a number of leading injection moulding machine manufacturers on October 6th-7th.