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Arburg Technology Days 2022

Live and in colour: from 22 to 25 June 2022, the Arburg Technology Days took place again after a break of two long years due to Corona. Industry professionals had clearly been waiting eagerly: Over 3.700 visitors from all over the world came to the German company headquarters in Lossburg. Awaiting them under the title, "Think Tank", were around 50 machine exhibits, the Efficiency Arena with its focus on digitalisation and sustainability, service solutions and fascinating expert presentations. The guests were delighted with the wealth of technology highlights, hands-on innovations, and the spirit of this unique event in the plastics industry.

5G campus network

Investing in the machine room of the future: At its headquarters in Lossburg, Germany, Arburg GmbH + Co KG has launched a 5G campus network from Deutsche Telekom. This will enable the manufacturer of injection moulding machines from the northern Black Forest to test innovative applications for its own production - such as autonomous transport systems, industrial robots or automated production processes. In its Customer Center, Arburg is already presenting the potential of the 5G mobile communications standard for digital manufacturing. There, industrial customers from a wide range of plastics-processing sectors, such as the automotive and packaging industries or medical technology, can test digital manufacturing concepts. For this purpose, Telekom has equipped the Arburg Customer Center with eight special in-house antennas that supply the 2,100-square-meter area with 5G.

Industry 4.0 Talents

Now it is official: with its trainee project "Smart Bratwurst", Arburg was one of the five winners of the "Industry 4.0 Talents" competition this year. The award was presented to the trainees Nico Schoch and Nils Frey by Dr Patrick Rapp, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Tourism of the State of Baden-Württemberg, at a virtual awards ceremony. The two trainees travelled to Stuttgart on behalf of the Arburg team to receive the award and present the project in the Haus der Wirtschaft.

arburgXvision programme on plastics and recycling

Exciting, informative, a little surprising: that's how the 12th arburgXvision broadcast can be described in a nutshell. On 19 May 2022, Peter Barlog, Managing Partner of Barlog Plastics GmbH, Gerhard Böhm, Arburg Managing Director Sales and Service, and Dr.-Ing. Philipp Kloke, Application and Process Development at Arburg, discussed the topic of "Plastic as an innovation driver - new materials and what they bring!" In this context, there was also a lot of talk about recycling, sustainability and energy issues. But because everything is connected to everything else, these topics are so closely linked that it is difficult to separate them.

Arburg Technology Center in Radevormwald

The first Arburg Technology Center (ATC) – then known as the Info Center – opened in Radevormwald in 1982. This was and remains a sought-after contact point for customers from all over northern and western Germany – and is also considered a model for the international Arburg organisations established over the following years. On 19 and 20 May 2022, the 40th anniversary of ATC Radevormwald was duly celebrated in the presence of Managing Partners Juliane and Michael Hehl and Managing Director Technology and Engineering, Guido Frohnhaus. The exclusive anniversary event and the open day were each attended by around 160 enthusiastic guests.

Carbon footprint of injection machines

Arburg has been working intensively on the topic of sustainability and resource efficiency for a very long time. As a supplier of Allrounder injection moulding machines, the machine manufacturer is increasingly active in evaluating climate protection activities along the entire value chain for its customers. On the basis of ISO TS 14067:2018, a standard that defines a product's greenhouse gas emissions or product carbon footprint (PCF), Arburg has investigated how the PCF and specific energy requirements of its injection moulding machines can be calculated.

Arburg donates a further 400,000 euos for Ukraine

Arburg donates to the Ukraine cause: in order to help those affected by the war in as many ways as possible, Arburg’s partners have donated the generous sum of 400,000 euros to two organisations: Doctors Without Borders and SOS Children’s Villages. The organisations have received 200,000 euros each to aid their humanitarian and medical work in response to the war in Ukraine.

arburgXvision is back on air

The show goes on! From 2.00 p.m. on 19 May, the interactive Internet TV series will tackle more exciting topics in the plastics industry – in an informative, professional and entertaining manner. The title of the twelfth episode is "Plastic as an innovation driver - new materials and what they bring!" Arburg experts Gerhard Böhm, Managing Director Sales and Service, and Dr. Philipp Kloke, Application and Process Development, will discuss this topic with Peter Barlog, Managing Partner of the company with the same name, under moderation of Guido Marschall from Plas.TV. There will be a switch to Lossburg, so that viewers can also gain some practical insights into Fibre Direct-Compounding.

“cleandanube”

As one of three main sponsors, Arburg is supporting “cleandanube”, a transnational project initiated and co-organised by Furtwangen University, Germany. At the launch event at the source of the Danube (“Donauquelle”) in Furtwangen on 19 April 2022, Professor Andreas Fath received a small single-lever injection moulding machine from Arburg in addition to the financial support. The chemistry professor now intends to swim the entire length of the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea by 17 June 2022. Numerous activities along the 2,700-kilometre route will draw attention to microplastic pollution and the need for water conservation.

rapid + tct 2022

rapid + tct 2022, North America's largest additive manufacturing event, will take place in Detroit, USA, from 17 to 19 May as a hybrid event. Arburg will be there: Two Freeformer 300-3X models will be on show at the exhibition stand (no. 2108): a standard system and a machine for processing high-temperature materials. Another highlight will be the presentation of the "ProcessLog" app, which can be used to track and document jobs in detail.

Greenplast 2022: sustainability in practice

The Greenplast trade fair will be held in Milan for the first time from 3 to 6 May 2022. The event will focus on the topics of sustainability, recycling and energy efficiency in the plastics and rubber industry. At its exhibition stand (stand number 62/61, hall 14), Arburg will be demonstrating its expertise in circular economy and resource conservation with a turnkey system producing cups from bio-based polypropylene (PP) with a lasered R-Cycle code for single-sort recycling.

Majális 2022

Majális 2022 will open its doors for specialist visitors on 5 and 6 May. The open house could not take place in 2020 and 2021 because of the Corona pandemic. Now, however, the team at Arburg Hungária Kft. in Budapest are looking forward to this important personal get-together and to networking again with all the customers and other interested parties in the country. Two high-end exhibits, the Allrounders 520 H and 470 A, will be on show with innovative applications for medical technology, and the packaging and food industries. Further highlights include the Gestica control system, digitalisation with arburgXworld, and the arburgGREENworld sustainability programme.

DKT 2022

The German Rubber Conference DKT will be "live" in Nuremberg once again from 27 to 30 June 2022. The event is placing particular focus on the steadily growing market and developments in the areas of e-mobility, fuel cells, and the medical industry. Together with its partner Momentive Performance Materials, Arburg will be showcasing the processing of a new type of LSR on an Allrounder 470 A at its stand (no. 4307) in Hall A4.

Arburg at Chinaplas 2022

A high-tech-friendly country like China hosting one of the largest international plastics trade fairs: Chinaplas 2022 in Shanghai is set to be particularly interesting. Naturally, Arburg's appearance there has been planned accordingly. Particularly interesting target groups will be attending from the automotive industry, the highly dynamic medical technology sector, and the electronics industry. Machine technology and processes will match these, with LSR processing, high-speed medical applications, and lightweight construction with fibre direct compounding (FDC).

Industry Fair 2022

By postponing the Industry Fair until 5-8 April 2022, the fair in Celje, Slovenia, says it expects a significant increase in interest from trade visitors from all over south-eastern Europe after a break of almost two years due to the pandemic. The Industry Fair has established itself as the largest and most important trade fair in the fields of mechanical engineering and mould construction, welding and cutting, materials and advanced technologies, robotics and automation. Arburg will be represented with the hybrid high-performance Hidrive series in Hall K (Stand 31). An Allrounder 520 H produces 32 pipette tips in a cycle time of around six seconds.

Arburg at Plastimagen 2022

Welcoming back in-person attendees for the first time in two years, the Plastimagen 2022 trade fair taking place from 8 to 11 March at the Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City is not just of fundamental importance for the Mexican market, but for the Latin American market as a whole. Accordingly, Arburg will once again be in attendance and will have its own stand in Hall D, no. 730. The focus of the exhibits will be on the packaging sector which, alongside the traditionally strong automotive and medical industries, is experiencing the highest growth rates. Digitalisation too is also advancing at a strong pace in Mexico. As a result, Arburg is also placing great emphasis on this area and will be showcasing the versatile ALS Arburg host computer system as well as the arburgXworld customer portal.

Highly efficient for thin-walled containers

How do you economically produce thin-walled containers using top-quality recycled material and with maximum output? By having several specialists combine their well-founded expertise. This is what has happened in France as part of the Thin Wall Integra collaborative project. The collaboration pursues several objectives simultaneously, namely the high-volume processing of recycled material into thin-walled containers in a way that is fully automated, fast, and of a consistently high quality.

On the road to success

On 1 December 2021, 36 trainees and students of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) were officially released from their training obligations at Arburg. All of them had already been taken on as permanent employees. Renate Keinath, who as Managing Partner of Arburg is responsible for Human Resource Management, praised the excellent performance of the graduates and also thanked the trainers for their commitment. She personally presented the certificates and 23 prizes, including three special prizes. Head of Apprenticeship Michael Vieth wished the new employees a good start to their careers at Arburg.

ALS User Meeting 2021

On 18 November 2021, Arburg hosted an ALS User Meeting again. The in-person event met with a very positive response. A total of around 60 participants came to Lossburg to find out about new features and receive valuable tips and suggestions. One highlight was a presentation by medical technology company Röchling Medical, which was able to hugely increase production efficiency with the help of ALS.

Arburg products and experts in high demand

At formnext 2021, Arburg wowed trade visitors with numerous innovations for industrial additive manufacturing. Many international visitors also travelled to the world’s leading trade fair in Frankfurt to find out first-hand about innovations and trends in the AM industry. Arburg’s international team of AM experts put on a strong show together with InnovatiQ. The highlight was the world premiere of the high-temperature Freeformer 300-3X, which processed medically approved PEEK granulate to produce skull implants.

New: ARBURGadditive GmbH + Co KG

ARBURG GmbH + Co KG has founded a new subsidiary: ARBURGadditive GmbH + Co KG. Also based in Lossburg, it will house all of the company's activities related to additive manufacturing. The Managing Director will be Dr Victor Roman, who is set to join the company on 1 December 2021.

Award-winning: Arburg Prizes for TUM graduates

This year again saw two graduates of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) awarded the Arburg Prize for outstanding theses in the field of plastics and medical technology: Dr André Hemmler for the best dissertation and Dario Pasquale Arcuti for the best master’s thesis. In both cases, the topic was the use of medical prostheses. The awards were presented by Prof Birgit Vogel-Heuser, holder of the Chair in Automation and Information Systems at the Technical University of Munich, and Arburg Training Director Michael Vieth.

Mould Strategy 2.0

Once again, “arburgXvision” had a fascinating topic lined up for its viewers: “Mould Strategies 2.0”. In the ninth episode, Arburg experts Christoph Blöchle and Christian Homp presented strategies for significantly increasing the utilisation rate of injection moulding machines. In addition to the expert presentations, there were instructive live links hosted by Philipp Jarosch in Arburg’s Training Center. Around 450 people watched the interactive internet TV programme live on 28 October 2021. Anyone registered with “arburgXvision” can watch this and all previous episodes in the Media Centre.

Machine handover to University of Darmstadt

At Fakuma 2021 in Friedrichshafen – the stand of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) – provided the setting for the official handover of the new Allrounder to the Institute for Plastics Technology (ikd), based in this “City of Science”. Prof Thomas Schröder and M. Eng. Bardo Palmberg from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences were joined by Dr Christoph Schumacher, Director of Marketing, and Area Sales Manager Thomas Knop from Arburg at the small ceremony on 12 October 2021.

Arburg at formnext 2021

Arburg will attend the formnext 2021 exhibition in Frankfurt from 16 to 19 November. With the largest stand at the world’s leading trade fair for additive manufacturing (D131, Hall 12.1), the company will be exhibiting a wide range of high-end machines, innovative applications and exciting component demonstrations. The AM industry is showing a keen interest in the manufacture of implants made from medically approved PEEK. A total of four Freeformer exhibits and a the portfolio from Arburg’s sister company InnovatiQ will be on display. When it comes to components, the highlights will include customised Wilson baseball bats and tesa adhesives processed as additives in smartphones.
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