ENGEL
is making its customers more competitive with reliable, flexible and efficient machines and automation from a single source. At Plástico Brasil 2019 from 25th to 29th March in São Paulo, Brazil, the injection moulding machine manufacturer and system expert headquartered in Austria will be demonstrating what this can look like in practice with two sophisticated applications from the fields of packaging and technical moulding. It will be clearly demonstrated how digitalisation, and machine and system networking can unlock even more efficiency and quality potential.
Packaging: Thin-wall with IML in 2.2 seconds
Flexibility and high performance play the main roles in ENGEL’s packaging exhibition space at Plástico Brasil 2019. An ENGEL e-motion 440/160 will be used to produce polypropylene ice cream cups using thin-wall technology in a 4-cavity mould with a total shot weight of 14.8 grams. Thanks to in-mould labelling (IML), the cups are ready-to-fill when they leave the integrated production cell. The cycle time is 2.2 seconds.
Two main factors are responsible for the high efficiency and economy of the production process. On the one hand, in-mould labelling makes it possible to change the decor without interrupting production. Even with very small batch sizes, this guarantees the lowest unit costs. On the other hand, ENGEL has consistently geared its all-electric ENGEL e-motion injection moulding machine for high-performance operation with injection speeds of more than 500 mm per second. The closed system for the toggle lever and spindle ensures optimum and clean lubrication of all moving machine components; the e-motion thus meets the strict purity requirements not only of the food industry, but also of the cosmetics, medical technology and pharmaceutical industries.
ENGEL is implementing this exhibit together with partners. The mould is provided by SIMON from Saint-Lupicin, France. BECK automation (Oberengstringen, Switzerland) is responsible for the IML automation. The labels come from Verstraete in Maldegem, Belgium, and the polypropylene from Borealis, who are headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
30 years of ENGEL tie-bar-less technology
Compact manufacturing cells, efficient automation and fast set-up processes: with their fully usable platen areas and free access to the mould area, tie-bar-less injection moulding machines fulfil the need for high efficiency and cost-effectiveness in production in a particularly good way. To mark the start of the 30th anniversary of ENGEL tie-bar-less technology, the machine manufacturer is presenting a tie-bar-less victory 1060/220 injection moulding machine at Plástico Brasil 2019, on which technical parts are produced in a multi-cavity mould. With its tie-bar-less technology, ENGEL still has a unique selling proposition today.
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