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Smart Molding International 2-2025

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Shows

05. - 10.

February 2026

Plastindia

New Delhi,

India

04. - 06.

March 2026

Asiamold Select

Guangzhou,

China

18. - 19.

March 2026

Solids

Dortmund,

Germany

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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Videos

ENGEL tie bar less Award 2012 VW

Two injection molding machines ENGEL victory 400 with ecodrive used for 2 components injection molding of a car part. Transfer method is used with 2 industrial robots

Videos

Hot runner temperature controller

Demonstration of hot runner valve gate controller made in Thailand by SMK automation

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.