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Shows

13. - 17.

October 2026

Fakuma

Friedrichshafen,

Germany

17. - 20.

November 2026

Formnext

Frankfurt am Main,

Germany

02. - 05.

December 2026

Plast Eurasia

Istanbul,

Turkey

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 15.08.2017

Fakuma 2017: Smart, smarter, Arburg!

In Friedrichshafen Arburg will present machinery, processes and turnkey solutions for efficient plastics processing

Videos

KUKA Koplas 2017 in Korea

Along with out partner, LS Mtron, KUKA robots were on display at Koplas 2017 in two demos, one for handling and cutting of injection molded parts and one for picking and placing on a packaging line

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