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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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Articles

Interview with the director of Equiplast, the International Plastics and Rubber Event

Pilar Navarro: “Machinery and process demonstrations will take centre court at the Gran Via Exhibition Centre”

News 09.08.2017

Process optimization with SIGMA Engineering

SIGMA Engineering presents its Autonomous Optimization at Fakuma 2017

News 09.08.2017

ENGEL at Composites Europe 2017

Integrated solutions for more efficiency in FRP lightweight engineering

Videos

TwinCAT HMI: Simple, open, based on HTML5

TwinCAT HMI enables an efficient engineering of user interfaces directly in the Visual Studio environment, HMI can be executed responsively on any HTML5-capable browser

Videos

3D Systems Figure 4 with Automated 3D Inspection

Now with automatic, in-line 3D inspection, 3D Systems’ Figure 4 technology enables ultra-fast, modular Stereolithography for the closed-loop manufacturing of plastic parts

Videos

Campetella Robotic Center - GUNSHOT + SPIN FIP 2017

FIP 2017 – Gunshot X-Series Evo + Spin X-Series Evo, 4 Cavities, robot cycle time: 3,00 sec., IMM interlock time: 0,50 sec.

News 02.08.2017

Netstal presents Industry 4.0 in action at Drinktec

While showcasing milk bottles closures production Netstal, together with Intravis, will present an adaptive control circuit between IMM and image processing system

Articles

Shorter R&D cycle time through advanced IMD simulation technology

Moldex3D solutions help reducing product warpage, molding defects and furthermore optimizing product designs