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Smart Molding International 2-2025

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Shows

18. - 21.

November 2025

Formnext

Frankfurt am Main,

Germany

03. - 06.

December 2025

Plast Eurasia

Istanbul,

Turkey

05. - 10.

February 2026

Plastindia

New Delhi,

India

More Shows

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 08.11.2018

Optimally designing a family mold

The design of family molds poses specific challenges for injection molders as well as mold makers.

News 01.11.2018

Packaging solution with minimum space requirements

For years now, WITTMANN very successfully produces removal and insertion systems for the packaging industry

News 01.11.2018

Waldorf Technik at Fakuma 2018

This year the company was demonstrating the patented Vario TIP® FSS automation system at the Sumitomo Demag booth

News 01.11.2018

A Molding Powerhouse

Milacron and iMFLUX announced the first-of-its-kind agreement to change the way the world molds

News 01.11.2018

Bringing core manufacturing software to United Kingdom

Small and medium sized manufacturers in the UK can now access IQMS’ Enterprise ERP & automation software

News 01.11.2018

Successful Fakuma 2018

ARBURG provided an overview of the future of injection moulding at the international Fakuma trade fair in Friedrichshafen

News 25.10.2018

Virtual process design optimizes parts

Via the virtual process design in SIGMASOFT®, different approaches are compared with each other efficiently

Сase studies

More robots for equipment packages

Sepro to build 3-, 5 -, and 6-axis robots and sprue pickers for new Tederic IMMs sold in Europe