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Injection moulding machine maker wins top award
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Krauss-Maffei (UK) product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Nov 27, 2006
Together with Intertec Systems, Basell Polyolefins and Philips Tool and and Mould, Krauss-Maffei won a top award at this year's American SPE Awards.
Together with Intertec Systems, Basell Polyolefins and Philips Tool and and Mould, Krauss-Maffei won a top award at this year's American SPE Awards, held in Livonia near Detroit, USA.
The component that won Krauss-Maffei the award was an air duct for the instrument panel of a DaimlerChrysler Jeep.
The air duct was produced on a KM 2.700 - 24.500 MX Injection Moulding Compounder (IMC).
This is the first time such a part has been produced on an IMC.
The material - long glassfibre reinforced polypropylene - is compounded on the IMC in a one-stage process immediately prior to injection.
Substituting this material for the previous blend of polycarbonate (PC) and ABS generated a cost saving of around 15%.
The IMC injection moulding compounder opens up completely new prospects for processors to compound and inject their own product-specific formulations in a single-stage process.
Injection moulding compounding is a strikingly innovative process for combining a polymer with custom volumes of reinforcing material, fibres or fillers.
Applications for these composite components are very diverse, ranging from automotive, packaging, electrical and electronics to the foodstuffs industry.
* About Krauss-Maffei - worldwide Krauss-Maffei is a premium partner for plastics processing industries.
Krauss-Maffei machines and systems are used wherever plastics are converted into products.
Our know-how covers every aspect - from the product idea to the customer-specific system solution.
Krauss-Maffei is the only company in the market with expertise in the three major machine technologies for plastics processing: injection moulding technology, extrusion technology and reaction process machinery.
We integrate the three technologies to generate synergies in processes and machinery for plastics.
As an international company, Krauss-Maffei has a presence in all important global markets and in the major plastics processing industries.
Our sales and service network currently comprises 23 subsidiaries and 40 agencies.
Krauss-Maffei employs around 2,450 people worldwide.
In the 2004/2005 business year (closing date September 30, 2005) consolidated sales for the Krauss-Maffei Group totalled EUR 551.1 million.
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