At Plastimagen in Mexico City from November 7 to 10, 2023, Arburg will be showcasing pioneering pacemaker technologies that meet the high demands of the market and international industry with regard to quality management as well as energy and production efficiency. Mexico is currently seeing production sites relocating back into the country, coupled with demands for more plastic recyclability and a reduced carbon footprint. Arburg will be demonstrating solutions for this at Stand 730 in Hall D, using the example of an efficient turnkey application built around a vertical Allrounder, as well as a sustainable packaging application with a hybrid injection molding exhibit.

Two injection molding exhibits will be on show at Plastimagen: a flexible turnkey solution on the topic of digitalization and a compact packaging application. The topic of energy saving will be another focal point of the fair. Arburg's partner Plasgrom (Stand 830) will be showing how this can be achieved using an Allrounder 470 H milestone machine with an optimized energy footprint and reduced cycle times thanks toSource: Arburg new hybrid machine technology.

Arburg will be demonstrating what digitalization can do in injection molding production with a compact turnkey system built around a 375 V vertical Allrounder. As a "smart" exhibit, it will flexibly produce elastic tension straps on demand from shot to shot — and without any need for conversion, thanks to a clever product and mold design and Industry 4.0 components. Customer requirements are integrated into the ongoing injection molding process online. At Plastimagen 2023, visitors will be able to choose between elastic tension straps of three different lengths in three colors and with three different end piece combinations, entering their variant of choice directly at the terminal. A space-saving six axis robot positioned within the machine's installation area inserts the strap ends into the four cavity mold, where the individually selected hook/hook, hook/eye or eye/eye combinations are molded on in a cycle time of around 40 seconds. In industrial practice, an application of this kind would be ideal for cable assembly in the automotive industry, for example.

A hybrid Allrounder 570 H in packaging version will be equipped with Roboplas automation for fast in-mold labelling (IML). Using a four cavity mold, oval, thin-walled IML butter container made of PP with a capacity of 180 ml each can be produced in a cycle time of only around three seconds. The fully automated turnkey solution is a particularly space-saving application, as the six-axis robot is installed above the machine's oil tank without increasing the installation area.