Arburg Presented Lightweight Event in Detroit
Arburg and partners presented new machine and material technology for lightweight injection molded parts in Detroit, September 27th - 28th.
The event, which gathered 70 participants, consisted in a Lightweight Injection Molding Seminar for the automotive market.
Arburg, advances its position in the automotive market as the range of machinery and technology continues to expand, more and more of its business has come from the automotive market.
“We’ve become such a large presence in the Michigan automotive market that it only made sense to start reaching an even broader audience with a conference style event. The objective is to educate customers on new technology that’s available,” said Michael Stark, National Sales Manager for Arburg, Inc. 70 participants from around the Midwest joined the event, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio in addition to local Michigan molders.
At the event, Arburg demonstrated a hydraulic Allrounder 820 S machine with a clamping force of 440 US tons which was equipped for Fiber Direct Compounding (FDC). The FDC process is a cost-effective alternative to processing fiber-filled compounds. The fiber length, fiber content and material combination can be adapted on an individual basis to influence the part properties in a targeted manner. The FDC unit on the injection unit consists of a side feeder with integrated cutting device, an adapted cylinder and a special screw geometry. The continuous fiber from inexpensive glass fiber rovings are cut into lengths before being added directly into the liquid melt. This machine was truly the highlight of the event.
In addition, Arburg displayed a more general-purpose automotive application on its “daily workhorse” style machine showing off the flexibility of even its most economical machine series. Aside from the live machine demonstrations, Arburg and its partners presented conference style presentations focused on fiber compounding, physical foaming with Arburg’s ProFoam technique and MuCell, organosheet overmolding and inductive mold heating, and roving development.
For more information, please visit www.arburg.com.
