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A Very Small World: Micromolding at Makuta

Makuta Technics sweats the tiny details so it can run ‘lights out’ most of the day.

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Automation

Wittmann Expanding Robot Capacity

Annual global production capacity for robots will reach 4500 next year.

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Automation

Billion & Sepro Collaborate on Molding Machine/Robot Packages

Billion will supply injection presses with integrated robots and controls from Sepro.

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Sepro And Billion To Offer Molding Machine/Robot Packages

The two French companies have signed a partnership pact in order to increase their presence in new markets by offering a complete equipment package.

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Wittmann Battenfeld Previews New Tech For Composites & Cell Integration

Open house in Austria offered a vision of a future with controls linking injection machines to a wide range of auxiliaries. Wittmann also signaled its debut in composite organosheet overmolding—with an added twist.

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Micromolding

INJECTION MOLDING AT NPE: Presses, Robots & Cell Automation

Everything molders need to compete in markets from automotive to medical was on display in Orlando. Besides a huge number of new machine models, there was emphasis on cell integration and automation.

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Wittmann Battenfeld to Make Injection Molding Machines in China

The Austrian headquartered supplier of injection molding machines, robotics and auxiliaries is planning a 2017 expansion that will add the manufacture of presses in China.

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industry 4.0

Chinaplas 2015: Engel Announces Record Results, New Automation Center in Shanghai

Austrian injection molding machine and automation supplier Engel announced at Chinaplas 2015 that it eclipsed the euro 1 billion mark for annual sales for the first time ever, hitting 1.068 billion euros ($1.4 billion) for its fiscal year ending in March.

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Milan Plast Was Good With Plans To Be Even Better

Big international turnout at the triennial international fair for the plastics and rubber industry, Milan Plast: check out the Plastics Technology slideshow.

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Automation

Injection Molding, California Style

There are particular challenges associated with plastics processing in the Golden State. But opportunities beckon for those who can overcome them. That’s the story of AMA Plastics.

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Blending & Dosing