Stand at Equiplast 96 (Barcelona): Equiplast as a walk

Equiplast, by way of walking

Being Expoquimia, Equiplast and Eurosurfas the most important event which brings together in our country to the plastics industry, we thought appropriate at the time to anticipate the maximum of information on submissions that could be of interest to the reader. For this reason we synthesized number 40 of plastics universal, all the information of 165 exhibitors who had the courtesy to reply to our questionnaire. Without prejudice to more details on some of the above-described performances, now mentioned some of news of particular interest.

Due to the volume of information provided in all numbers in this magazine, it is difficult that in any fair there will be many new features that we have not cited above. This is the case, for example, of the new injection of small size of Erincamachines, with most of the features of a greater fuel transfer, but it is particularly adapted for the manufacture of series cut pieces of small size which is not economical to produce on older machines. The Japanese Nissei exhibited a similar machine in size, something more sophisticated, but 50% more expensive.

Oversupply of injectors

Anyway, the sector of the injection machine seems to present an excess supply, so the prices of these teams are currently tuned to maximize and tend to build modular to adapt to different work or very specialized machines.

Among them, a machine without columns SK sächsische kunststofftechnik presented at the stand of Diego de Ramón lariosis a novelty. Unless you can make sure that this is a trend for the future, it follows the path opened by Engel. Another machine worthy of attention is the one presented by jb fiser, whose main production is that of machines of vertical execution, which on this occasion has developed the SF4-150 MCI 40, a horizontal team of 1500 kN able to inject 430 cmcontrolled Siemens and light between bars of 460 mm, which draws attention to its total, unusual fairing on machines of this type.

Unfortunately, Margarit constructions, one of the largest producers of this type of machine it is experiencing economic difficulties, which we expect to recover, and he could not realize its announced presence in Equiplast. The other great Spanish Builder, Mateu and Solé, shall be subject to a more detailed review in the next issue.

However, injection molders worried more by search for peripheral equipment to reduce labour requirements for each machine, such as the green box presented by Equiper, which sequentially stored in boxes scheduled amounts of molded parts.

The R-RIM moulding is an increasingly important alternative to the molding injection in external parts of the car. The latest innovation in this field the krauss-maffei, presented with a team to mold large parts reinforced with fiberglass, polyurethane integral including Alternatively textile lining, in which the machine itself integrates the simultaneous proyeción on the open mold from fiberglass, in lengths up to 100 mm.

The extrusion process continues into new fields of application, by invading the until now reserved to the role: dolci extrusion has developed a system for the manufacture of coextruded to make diapers that has had such success that he intended all of its capacity in this line to the American market.

The concentration of the exhibitors of moulds sponsored by Ascamm was a model of organization of the sector very appreciated by the visitors, who could easily evaluate the interesting offer of the same.

It is regrettable that the availability of space in the new location of Equiplast have not left enough place to include manufacturers of raw. Located mostly in Expoquimia, are forced to divide the attention of visitors between the two spaces and we fear that this situation not can remedy for the next opportunity, given that the success of the current has encouraged many exhibitors to demand an extension of its stand.

On the other hand, is a field in which important developments that we have not reviewed prior rarely occur and that, at this time, introduces some confusion until that have not clarified the real advantages of the products of metalocénicos catalystswhich we have discussed widely. Drew attention to the presentation by the Italian firm Gaypa of color masterbatches for PET.