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In the absence of the final results, he returned to show as the paradigm of the fairs

K does not fail

Drafting PU15/10/2004

The Düsseldorf K is for more than 50 years meeting point more important in the world of plastics and rubber industry. Every three years meet in Düsseldorf exhibitors and visitors from the five continents to witness live the newest developments in this dynamic and innovative industry. Even without having to this issue of the magazine with the numbers of visitors and the perceptions of them, we offer an overview of what is the K, as well as some products that add to the already presented in our previous issue and those that lie ahead.

In the era of e-mail and Internet, the transmission of data at high speed and global communication, the role of a professional fair as the K has not lost validity at all. On the contrary: the more complex and sophisticated are the products, systems and processes, greater importance is the direct dialogue between supplier and buyer. Direct contact and face to face communication are the basis to create the necessary confidence in trade relations in the long term, involving much more than the mere purchase and sale of products. Only the direct comparison of all the international suppliers allows to find new business partners; only the exchange of ideas among colleagues, moving behind the scenes offers the necessary guidance to deal with the competition that exists today. All this requires a central business plaza which also provide for the information and data that form a solid basis for the decisions of company. This business is the K in Düsseldorf. There is no other plastics fair in the world of the range of the K.

Successful commercial relationship that connects to the plastics and rubber industry and the Düsseldorf trade fair began in 1952. And despite the complicated economic situation facing the world economy, the available space of the K 2004 ran a year before its conclusion. More than 2,500 exhibitors have occupied the entire surface of the enclosure of the Düsseldorf trade fair exhibition. The construction of a new arena in the northern part of the fairground of Düsseldorf and the expansion of the Pavilion 13 made it possible to tell the K 2004 with 160,000 net square meters of exhibition area.

Enlargement has not changed the Organization of the K:

Raw materials and additives
Semi-finished products, technical parts and reinforced plastics products
Machinery and equipment
Services

This Division ensures that each and every one of the visitors of the fair are rapidly Exhibitor that fits their professional interests.

Manufacturers of machinery and equipment are always the most numerous group of exhibitors of the K: located in halls 1 to 4 and 9 to 17, occupy about two-thirds of the total area of exposure.

Suppliers of raw materials, semi-finished products and technical parts will occupy halls 5 to 8.

Sports

The offer of the exhibitors is completed with the presentation of a very special theme: the use of plastic and rubber in the sport and leisure, which has been treated in all its dimensions within the framework of a monographic exhibition. The use of plastic the achievement of significant sporting achievements, whether through sports facilities with special equipment, through extremely resistant equipment or special clothing. In this Olympic year 2004 throughout the K and the motto "First Choice for Winners", outlined numerous examples of high competition, the Leisure and sports of the architecture of the sport on the many and varied ways in which used polymers in the sport and the role paramount to play in the competition and the economy of the sport. The length and width of 500 m2 in Hall 6, there have been technologies and methods of transformation innovators and round tables with the presence of prominent sportsmen and architects.

See the future

The K 2004 show is designed to go beyond mere exposure of the status quo of the industry. This event is the perfect forum to deal with the issues and debates in which focus the research and industry:

What products can benefit to a greater degree of the properties of plastics to measure?
What possibilities are there of optimize the properties of transformation and functional additives application?
What can expect from the new composite materials the leading companies with very specific needs?
How much weight are able to reduce the new processes and materials, for example, in the Aeronautics and automotive sectors?

Business

If you want to make good investment decisions for the company, it is absolutely necessary to have an overview of the global market. The internationality and the composition of the exhibitors of the K guarantee a full and comprehensive offer: in each of the sectors, the range of suppliers extends from companies operating globally to young specialists and from standard offers affordable to mouldsraw materials and totally custom processes.

The number of visitors who come to Düsseldorf every three years is another example of the importance of the K for business in the sector. The k 2001 came 228,000 professionals from some 100 countries, among which was a significant number of managers: according to data from the survey of visitors to the K 2001, nearly one-third occupied senior positions in your company. 60% Of the visitors was responsible in varying degrees of investment of your business decisions and 24% brains-trust on these issues.

These experts valued the information received at the fair for their commercial objectives in a very positive way. The results of the survey conducted during the 2001 K are extremely eloquent: the fair visitors were very impressed by the amount of new knowledge, innovations and technical solutions. The interests of the visitors were distributed in the following way: 74% of visitors became interested in machines and equipment for the industry of plastic and rubber, 38 per cent by raw materials and additives, 29% by semi-finished products and technical parts and 13 per cent for services. More than 90% of the visitors was satisfied with the existing in all these areas offer.

Innovation

Innovation is the cornerstone to dominate a highly competitive market. It is undeniable that, in the era of shorter development times each time, the K presents the largest selection of innovations in the world. And the news that the exhibitors of the K are available to users a high interest: in this sector, in which the high-tech is a constant, the times of revolutionary inventions and the leaps and bounds in the developments have come to an end. An example is that of Gneuss, represented by Helmut Roegele, which presents the SFXmagnus filtration system. Its operation is based on the automatic start of the RSFgenius filter. It works with a new technique of propulsion and provides better results when it is comes to filtration, but it doesn't have a system of reenjuague to clean the sieves. This made it possible to reduce you coses them of production and put at the disposal of the market system of filtration process and constant pressure with low investment costs. Offers advantages such as purity of the mass, as well as a constant and lasting product quality. The pressure remains constant, even during the change of the sieves; It is recommended for all types of plastics and viscosities and an area of sieve with a capacity around the 9,000 square centimeters, is effective, has an easy to use and sealed construction protects the body against the influences of the environment.

Today, the activity focuses on the development and improvement of existing technology. Innovation is aimed at achieving more productive solutions: it tries to provide improvements to extend the range of applications, introduce innovations more quickly, modernize production processes and increase profitability. Another example is APM, distributed in Spain by Just in Time Plastics, which released the international market a compendium of news that represent a small sample of the technology of one of the major Asian manufacturers in technical injection machine: Chen PET unit aimed at small and medium-scale production of preforms from PET or standard Supermaster unit that injected blocks of high technical characteristics for high production.

The model SM 60 HS, equipped with the new CDC 3000 control and control of the injection through valves Moog injected in the fair cards SD Card memory of only 0.2 mm thick and with a critical quality in a mould 4 cavities (2 + 2).

Another novelty of APM is the machine for microinjection Supermaster 5 ex, which has a clamping force of 5 t, electric drive with servomotors, closure system of guided dishes without columns and injection combined with plasticizing screw and piston of high precision injection. The maximum capacity is 1 g A 2500 bar pressure and expressed by injecting a surgical element of 0,040 g of weight (elbow 90º with internal duct) in a cycle of 3segundos.

Also have seen products for extrusion, such as the Beta LaserMike (in Spain, Acinco), which has exhibited their recent products developed for pipes, profiles and hoses plastic as the wide range of gauges (for laser and ultrasound) and control systems: includes gravity equipment, measurement of profiles and lengths without contact as well as detectors of faults. Based on ultrasonic systems provide accurate measurements of the eccentricity and thickness in pipes and tubes. They give a solution without any problems when using the range DataPro5000 and DataPro3000 controllers. Processor (DSP) UltraScan model data scan allows you to automatically detect, launch, and guide the product during its advance. Signal processing techniques allow measuring thickness from 25 to more than 75 mm. Some of its innovations are the range of gauges of non-contact measurement LaserSpeed, which determines the extent length and speed with accuracy of 0.05% to minimize excess material in deliveries to customers; the range of gravity systems with hoppers of 7 to 20 litres with precise control of the material consumed using a field collector and ProfileScan products for extrusion of complex profiles, which gives a detailed and precise measure of the profile.

Mateu & Solé in the fair

Spanish technology also occupies space in the fair. Mateu & Solé exhibited fuel transfer Meteor 2500 / 1510 V2009 of fast cycle, equipped with three pumps and accumulators, which allows to synchronize movements and triple the speed of injection processing very thin-walled parts. It includes a group of plasticizing with a special alloy that entails a very high resistance to abrasion and corrosion.

In addition, Mateu & Solé presents its range of solutions for the processing, handling and automation, injectors, blowers, extrusion lines and peripherals. The mills of Mecanofil, of the same group are also interesting. He exhibited the following teams: the molinio19/25 S-15 insonorizado, with force feeding through countless and up to a power of Court of 4 kW, optionally with feeding and crushing drivers. The 25/30 mill CB location and also present in the K, increases the family of crushers in the series CB series well known and valued because of its many applications in processes of recovered, both manual and automated system. It is a very modern design and robust turn, allowing up to a power of 11 kW, aided by a flywheel. It incorporates a system of phased and Court bent, rotating discs antifriction and supports bearings aired outside of the House of crushing getting production high with a regular granometría, minimum of powder and a high-performance hot material.

A fair that brings together all

In the K also combines companies with products related to the production of pieces of plastic as the represented by AIDA, industrial applications i Disseny Avançades, of the House Eos, specialist in manufacturing systems of sintering by laser for the generation of prototypes (rapid prototyping)molds (rapid tooling) and direct manufacture without mold (rapid manufacturing), presented at the K a variety of new products, including examples of prototypes made with the latest techniques of laser sinter of plastic, and metal molds made with the latest techniques of sintered metal (DMLS) laser. Sintered plastic Eosint P laser 380i is the latest model in the range of sintered plastic laser machines. It offers a new and modern design that integrates the latest electronic advances and new concepts in security. Other models are Eosint P700, the high-end prototyping machine model has also been improved, Eospace v 3.0, the new version that the software which automatically puts the pieces, optimizing the useful space of workload. In addition to hand of Eos unveiled PrimePart, new material of polyamide that offers a more detailed finish, and that due to their characteristics generates a significant reduction in costs per piece and opens up new fields of application for Laser sintered. This material combines increased productivity with the reduction in cost per piece. EOS also showed the latest innovation in machinery of technology of sintered laser direct metal (DMLS) Eosint M270 and new developed materials. This technology is becoming more accepted, not only for the production of prototypes in molds, but also for the production of series of pieces.

Two-thirds of the exhibitors with products and services for industrial clients offer a lot of new developments aimed at the car industry.

Also represented by Aida, Mattec Corp., specializing in monitoring in real time, it introduced the new version of the ProHelp EPM software. CoreTech System, for its part, has a complete 'suite' of software for the simulation of injection of thermoplastic, the fastest growing in the world market. Moldex3D is the commercial name of the Coretech simulation software.

The industrial client

But all of the above is only for plastic and rubber products manufacturers. Already long overdue that industrial customers know and positively valued the K and visit to seek and take home new ideas for your sector and its products. Exhibitors have been adapted to the demand for this group of customers: almost half of the companies participating in the K run its offer to industrial consumers of semi-finished products and technical parts made of plastic and rubber. This makes the K platform of most important information for developers, designers and technicians of production of the most diverse sectors of the industry. The first of these is the automobile industry. Two-thirds of the exhibitors with products and services for industrial clients offer a lot of new developments aimed at the car industry. Approximately half presents innovations for the sector of consumer goods, followed by the sector of electrical engineering, which represents 41% of the offer. The sectors of construction and facilities and the technology medical and laboratory are addressed one-third of the supply respectively.