Ohio Molder Joins Statewide Consortium to Combat Covid-19
Pragmatic Manufacturing put its new Wittmann Battenfeld molding cells to work as part of an effort to produce and deliver more than 1 million face shields for front-line health care workers in Ohio in just five weeks.

Wittmann Battenfeld Customers Push Machines into Coronavirus Duty
Wittmann Battenfeld injection molding machines in Italy and Austria are churning out valves for respiratory masks and face shield frames and straps, respectively.

Wittmann Battenfeld USA Cancels Open House and Technical Symposium
Citing Covid-19, the supplier of injection molding machines, automation and auxiliary equipment has canceled the event planned for September 24-25 at its U.S. headquarters in Torrington, Conn.

New Product ID Technologies For Industry, Retail & Recycling
Confirming material composition and manufacturing source, anti-counterfeiting, waste sorting, and retail check-out scanning may all get a boost from new ID technologies.

Wittmann Battenfeld to Remain Operational During Covid-19 Crisis
Initially facing a forced shutdown, Wittmann Battenfeld—and many of the plastics manufacturers it supplies—were deemed essential and allowed to remain open.

Small, Family-Run Vermont Molder Pioneers in ‘Lights-Out’ & Industry 4.0
Going back 37 years, T&M Enterprises dared to push available technology far beyond the risk tolerance of much larger firms.

Coping with Coronavirus: What If You Can’t Get a Tech Service Visit?
‘Social distancing’ for service technicians? Online remote servicing to the rescue!

Betts Retires from Wittmann Battenfeld
Working in plastics for more than 40 years, Tom Betts announced his retirement from Wittmann Battenfeld. 

Bigger, Faster, Lower-Cost Robots at K 2019
Three, four, five and six axes; high speed and high payload capacities; low-cost models; and collaborative robots made news at K. There were also QMC systems and AGVs.

Custom Molder’s Strategic Edge: Top-Class Metrology Services
Molding good parts is not enough. Better and faster metrology services for tool qualification and process validation make the difference for Octex Group.

K 2019 Report: Auxiliaries Stake Their Claim in the Circular Economy
The theme of sustainable plastics pervaded the exhibits at K 2019,  even those of auxiliary equipment suppliers, where everything from dryers to blenders to hopper loaders was reimagined as part of a circular plastics process.

Injection Molding: Nonreturn Valves Get Improved Wear Protection
Wittmann Battenfeld showed upgraded check valves at K 2019.

Wittmann Buys FarragTech
Wittmann gains FrragTech’s dryers and cooling equipment based on compressed air.

Wittmann Battenfeld Deploys iMFLUX Low Constant Pressure Molding at Plastec West
A Wittmann Battenfeld SmartPower 110 machine will be molding a 4-cavity dosing cup using iMFLUX technology in Anaheim at the show (Feb. 11-13).

Injection Molding: Largest Wittmann Robot Yet Handles 100 kg
French molder uses its 3-m demolding stroke and large payload capacity to mold waste bins.

Injection Molding: Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Machines Tackle Sustainable Molding at K 2019
Blazing speed plus shrinking energy consumption supported the “green” theme at the big show. Smarter controls and growing connectivity were another key focus.

Simulation Is Making Injection Machines Smarter
Engel’s simlink will refine offline simulation with results from actual molding and use Engel’s machine data to constrain simulation within the actual machine’s capabilities.

Resin Drying: Centralized Segmented Wheel Dryer
Launched at K 2019, Wittmann Battenfeld’s ATON H1000 battery dryer can handle a dry air volume of 1000 m³/hr, for a drying throughput of 500-600 kg/hr.