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Injection molding equipment supplier Engel celebrated the opening of its new Tech Centre in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, last month in the company of 140 or so guests from the Swiss plastics industry. The event also marked Engel’s 50th anniversary of business operations in Switzerland. The Tech Centre includes modern training and office facilities as well as […]
Engel, the Austrian manufacturer of injection molding machines and automation, has opened a new production facility in Querétaro — the heart of the manufacturing area of Mexico located in the Bajio Region, 130 miles from Mexico City. This is the company’s newest injection molding machine manufacturing facility on the American continent and its tenth globally, […]
Stork IMM (Stork Plastic Machinery B.V.) has unveiled its new all-electric injection moulding machines. The new range is expected to provide greater sustainability while maintaining the high-performance capabilities seen in the standard Stork IMM machines. Attendees of the K show in Dusseldorf, Germany, this October will be able to see the new machines in the […]
Engel GmbH (Schwertberg, Austria) is strengthening its market presence in the Americas with the grand opening of a new production facility in Querétaro, Mexico. This strategic step marks a substantial expansion of the company’s regional manufacturing capabilities, aimed at providing faster delivery times and increased availability of injection molding machines for customers across the Americas. […]
Maliev, seemingly a relative newcomer to the manufacturing game, has released a desktop – and very aptly named – Pneumatic Injection Molding Machine. Thailand-based Maliev’s products heavily focus on the injection molding space. The Pneumatic Injection Molding Machine is obviously no exception. It boasts an injection force of 8,590 N at 0.7 Mpa, and is […]
Japanese injection molding machine maker Niigata Machinery Co. Ltd., which was acquired by Haitian International in 2023, is transitioning sales and service of Niigata machines in the U.S. and Canada to Absolute Haitian effective March 1, 2025. Absolute Haitian, which represents Haitian in the U.S. and Canada, is based in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, with […]
Fictiv, a global digital manufacturing leader, announced the launch of its Automated Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for Injection Molding. Described as an industry-first by the company, this tool provides engineers with instant, actionable design feedback to enhance product quality and speed up time to market. Combined with human expertise following automated DFM, it helps reduce the […]
In addition to all-electric machine models from the EcoPower and MicroPower series, Wittmann Battenfeld shows a servo-hydraulic SmartPower with an electric injection unit for the first time at Fakuma 2024. A company spokesperson told Plastics Technology that for a standard one-component servo-hydraulic SmartPower, the machine’s clamp is servo hydraulic and the screw is electric. The company is now offering […]