The introduction of robots started the company in 2000

Aries plastics industries currently has eleven robots of the brand Wittmann, all with servo motors in the 3 axes, that is primarily devoted to the extraction and packaging to the placement of inserts in the molds and parts.

Aries plastics industries was established as limited liability company in 1980 as a continuation of the activity developed by Angel Aerth beard. Currently, the company has 22 machines for injection with a clamping force of between 35 and 1,000 tons, workshop of tooling and presses of drawing and Assembly of sets section. The template consists of 45 persons.

Since its inception, Aries plastics industries specialised in manufacturing parts under the customer design, trying to offer you a comprehensive solution to your needs. Currently, this part of the business accounts for 80 per cent of the activity of the company.

The main sectors to which the company is directed are the automotive, electronics, construction and pharmaceutical industry.

From Aries highlights the difference in levels of demand for some sectors with respect to others. For example, in the automotive sector, says Angel Luis Aerth, Manager of the company, "the standards are, in general, much higher than those in other sectors, although there are markets that are beginning to be assimilated in levels of demand for the car."

The type of materials that most consumed Aries are, in general, technical plastics: polycarbonates, polyamides... with no loads, but also have an important use in materials such as polypropylene or polyethylene.

The company works mainly for the market Spanish, being its merely symbolic presence abroad, as it is not more than 5 percent of its sales volume.

Aries industries of plastics has specialized in manufacturing parts under the customer design

Ensure the production of parts with the utmost rigour of quality requires an exhaustive control of the whole process, starting with advice in the design to the client and the creation of the equipment. For this reason, Aries has not only gained the machinery of more advanced technology at the international level, has also created a Department formed by an expert team of professionals with the necessary tools for the development, construction and maintenance of molds. Only thus it is possible a perfect repeatability of the pieces: spared effort and resources in all processes, from the first to the last. From the point of view of the teams has Aries, include vertical machines for the injection of parts with metal.

As for robots, Aries currently has eleven robots Wittmann brand, all with servo motors in the 3 axes. They are aimed primarily at extraction and packaging to the placement of inserts in the molds and parts.

The introduction of robots started in 2000 with two units that were a resounding success. This encouraged them to continue along the same lines.

The main requirement that Aries was marked when he decided to acquire its first robot, and which continues to maintain, is that it can meet their needs present and future, as being fundamentally subcontractors needs change over time.

The second requirement that poses is to have a technical advice when it comes to the various applications: design of hands and peripherals, programs of special moves...

As supplier in this field, reportedly from Aries, Wittmann company meets perfectly these requirements they have a very "able" team in Barcelona. Today they are developing a process of automation of vertical machines with a Wittmann robot quite complex.

For the company, the future is inevitably to process automation

Although customers mark it from Aries plastics industries its objectives for the future, they are absolutely convinced that the future is inevitably to the automation of processes.

2004 has been a very good year for the company, which has been significant investment in machines and robots. As regards forecasts for this year, and although the beginning of 2005 has been pretty good, says his manager "situations of uncertainty are never good, which is why we believe that the volume of business in the current financial year will be lower than 2004."