Smart Molding International 2-2021

machinery 33 fulfills in every respect the medical sec - tor’s requirement for complete docu - mentation and traceability of the pro - duction process. Marco Moser is the company’s spe - cialist for light-weight technology. With the AIRMOULD® gas injection tech - nology and CELLMOULD® structured foam technology, both developed by WITTMANN BATTENFELD, it is possible to make molded parts with cavities or with a foam structure. Both these tech - nologies can be used to reduce part weights and thus save material costs. Martin Philipp Pichler is the micro in - jection molding expert promoting the integration of various different technol - ogies. He develops and improves solu - tions for micro part applications in the plastics industry. Extremely small plas - tic parts are frequently produced with injection molding machines which, due to their size, consume too large quanti - ties of resources and energy. Machines not optimized for the production of micro parts have a negative effect on process time, cost and parts qual - ity. The MicroPower machines from WITTMANN BATTENFELD as well as their automation and auxiliary compo - nents have been specially designed for manufacturing micro parts and conse - quently offer maximum precision, high quality standards and cost-efficiency for this product range. Another focal point of application engineering is COMBIMOULD multi- component technology, promoted by Edmund Kirsch. COMBIMOULD tech - nology has proved its effectiveness in low-cost production of robust and at the same time visually attractive parts made of several different plastic ma - terials. COMBIMOULD is the name of WITTMANN BATTENFELD’s multi-com - ponent injection molding technology. In this process, a basic part is produced in the first injection molding station, to which plastic components in different colors or made of different materials are subsequently added in a cyclical se - quence in one or more injection mold - ing stations. By combining the various material attributes with each other, a composite part of superior quality in terms of both visual attractive - ness and functionality is created. This material bonding technology can be used to produce individual parts and integrated components where individual parts are joined together by assembly injection mold - ing. Depending on the parts geometry in each case, this requires different process variants. A new focal area is the sector Pack - aging, Thin-wall and Custom Closures. Richard Schnabel has assumed re - sponsibility for this sector. Schnabel supports processors in this area with a range of sophisticated injection molding technology and turnkey solu - tions for efficient, clean production of packaging articles of every form, color and size. Field sales staff in daily contact with customers on site have access to the expertise of the product specialists, too. “We are confident that by this re - alignment through pooling our techni - cal expertise and long-term experience in the selected focal areas, we will be able to offer our existing and poten - tial customers an even better support than we have done in the past”, says Valentina Faloci. WITTMANN BATTENFELD www.wittmann-group.com www.smart-molding.com Valentina Faloci and Wolfgang Roth see great potential in the new sales structure Multi-component molding technology offers a way to produce multifunctional parts from two or more plastic materials with different attributes and/or in different colors (Pictures: WITTMANN)