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Smart Molding International 2-2025

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08. - 15.

October 2025

Düsseldorf,

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18. - 21.

November 2025

Formnext

Frankfurt am Main,

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03. - 06.

December 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

Articles

Wear-free process monitoring during production

New HASCO presents new proximity switches for precise, contact-free position monitoring

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Foaming

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Articles

Light-weight bicycle and diversified accessories

With more than 48 years of experience, FCS can meet customers' various product needs and stable production quality

News 01.10.2021

Creating more sustainable recyclable and reusable packaging

Trexel and Bockatech partner to increase benefits and scope of foamed packaging applications

News 17.09.2021

New series of low pressure injection molding machines

The Wilmington HE Series have been completely redesigned to incorporate all the features that are currently available

News 29.01.2021

Pallet revolution

tederic presents the ultra-efficient and lightweight injection molding pallet solution in at the pallet conference in China

News 06.11.2020

New foamed automotive trim challenge

LyondellBasell, REHAU, TU Chemnitz and Eschmann Textures join forces to advance sustainable mobility

Articles

Simulating the polyurethane foam injection and molding process

Helps to reduce the length of prototype phases and define injection parameters for any part manufactured from polyurethane foam

Articles

A breath of fresh air: eco-friendly, safer plastic foams

Solvay has developed Alve-One®, a sustainable foaming alternative, entirely inorganic-based formulations

Сase studies

Penn State Behrend has a new Zeres molding machine

Special options include processing capability for MuCell microcellular foaming technology and software for iMFLUX injection molding