Plastics & Rubber World - May/June 2019 - 3

CONTENTS

COVER STORY: New Twist-Loc packaging from Charpak

ABB FlexPicker prepares medical
components for batch validation

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Injection moulding cell with
integrated automation from
Wittmann Battenfeld

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COVER STORY
RIGID PACKAGING -
MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE
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Heat, press, stack, ship.
Thermoforming can seem
pretty straightforward - boring,
even. But behind the scenes,
companies producing this
packaging type must be clever,
resourceful and ﬂexible to win
and keep customers. Julian
Buckley visits two rigid packaging
manufacturers to see what each
has to oﬀer

FEATURES
IRELAND
14

Julian Buckley travels to Ireland
for the Engel Technology Days
in Galway, then goes on to
visit a series of companies to
ﬁnd out why medical moulding
has become so prevalent and
how geography has inﬂuenced
product choices

AUTOMATION
20

PRW speaks with various
automation providers to
uncover whether robots really
do replace workers, and why
UK plastics manufacturers
are lagging behind the global
automation wave

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
NEWS
6

TARRC opens new MRB rubber
testing facility, University of
Plymouth releases results of
plastics study, and Diageo
replaces plastic can rings with
cardboard packaging on Guinness
and other product ranges

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Three discharge heads on the
new Freeformer 300-3X support
multi-material printing

INDUSTRY COMMENT
12

Barry Hill, managing director at
Wittmann Battenfeld UK, on the
power of Industry 4.0

PRW INTERVIEW - 3D
PRINTING
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Lukas Pawelczyk, global sales
manager for Arburg's Freeformer
range of additive printers, talks
about the company's new machines
and how plastics producers can
leverage the technology

CASE STUDY
36

Packaging manufacturer Amaray
partners with Sumitomo (SHI)
Demag and others to create one
of the most advanced multi-cavity
mould lines in the world

INNOVATIONS
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New products and hardware for
the UK plastics industry

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