Plastics News 2017 Show Daily - October 19, 2017 - 11

Plastics News, October 19, 2017 * 11

FAKUMA SHOW DAILY

By David Vink
Plastics News Correspondent
Injection molder and mold
maker Krallmann Holding + Verwaltungs GmbH in Hiddenhausen, Germany, is presenting two
themes at Fakuma illustrating
the company's capabilities as a
developer of system solutions
for pre-serial production and
turnkey packages.
These are the IMPIM integrated metal-plastics injection
molding process and the PCIM
particle foam composite injection molding process in expanded polypropylene.
At Fakuma, the company has
a live IMPIM demonstration with
a Krallmann three-station rotary
index plate mold mounted on a
KraussMaf fei
press.
The
first
station molds
a polycarbonate box, and
the second inserts an LED
light and low
melting point
solder on the
inside of the
box via a KrallBrexeler
mann
metal
injection unit
mounted on the mold. The process forms conductive circuit
tracks inside the box. An E-Multi
auxiliary injection molding unit
from Milacron's Moldmasters
business unit completes the
process, injecting translucent
red PC onto the box's outer surface.
Inserting a ballpoint pen into
a hole on the box closes the circuit, illuminating Krallmann's
"K" logo on the surface.
Krallmann Managing Director
Ingo Brexeler said IMPIM technology has good prospects for
highly integrated automotive
rear LED light cluster units.
The latest PCIM process development is overmolding of an
entire particle foam door panel
with an aesthetic high-gloss surface. It follows developments
with injection molding machinery producer Arburg (Hall A3,
Booth 3100) and particle foam
molder Ruch Novaplast GmbH +
Co. KG (Hall B2, Booth 2203).
PCIM is not running at Fakuma; Brexeler said the company's
booth is too small to run both
processes. But Krallmann and
foam machinery producer Kurtz
Ersa, part of Kurtz Holding
GmbH & Co., are putting finishing touches on a live demonstration to take place at a Kurtz Ersa
open house in Kreuzwertheim,
Germany, on Nov. 16-17.
Such demonstration parts
have been produced in the SamPa project for integrated largescale serial production of PCIM
hybrid lightweight parts. SamPa
receives financial support from
the BMBF Federal German ed-

Krallmann Holding +
Verwaltungs GmbH
Hall A7, Booth 7508
ucation and research ministry
and involves Krallmann, injec-

tion molding machinery producer Arburg, the ILK lightweight
plastics construction institute
at Dresden technical university, the LWF material and joining
technologies institute at Paderborn university, Ruch Novaplast
and mold maker T. Michel Formenbau GmbH & Co. KG in Lautert, Germany.

Plastics News photo by David Vink

Krallmann shows part and
process integration capabilities

The aesthetic surface of the PCIM part.

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