A walk through the 2002 Equiplast

The high pressure systems firm is representative of the German Bauer Kompressoren and is dedicated to the distribution of Spain of various peripherals, measurement equipment, control and regulation. Its leaders stressed the products associated with the injection of gas.

Lima-Torres Joan are distributors of accessories to manipulate laminates, plastics, paper, or tissue.

Prism firm is a company of San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) that sells peripherals and insulators. His represented are Branderburguer Isoliertechnik Gerco Apparatebau, Grossenbacher, Treff, Zerma. As a novelty, they emphasize Zerman mills and series 4 of HB-Therm, Swiss termorreguladores equipped with remote control and graphic display.

The AEM signature presented at the fair an emblistar machine. The company manufactures machines for high frequency for automotive, medical, and Publisher (folders).

The Barcelona company Mircan 1979, s.l., presented at the fair a new manual filter. The firm represents diverse law firms in pump gear for extrusion, manual and automatic filters, automatic and manual as well as bobinadores and other peripheral equipment film flat heads and measurement.

Commercial maintenance (Comansa) is dedicated to the industrial equipment for the plastics industry. They are also manufacturers of plastic crates.

Barcelona signing Posimat, manufacturer of bottle placeholders, says of itself that is capable of delivering a new machine each working day. In addition to the placeholders, the company manufactures transportadores-elevadores and despaletizadores, to cover the full range of bottling plant. Among the solutions it offers Posimat is, for example, systems to reduce costs in the production of PET bottles.

Deublin Iberian, for its part, stressed high-pressure hydraulic rotary joints. In addition to this, the firm is dedicated to all types of peripheral devices, from the extrusion to decoration and marking.

Francisco Barceló submitted at its stand a stamping machine, developed by the Italian Guidolin Davide. The machine has application in various industries, as can be cut from fibre of carbon to plastics or rubber.

A six axis robot's arms articulated vertical and linear kinematics (model RLV16) is the newest of Reis Robotics product, although, paradoxically, it was not in the fair "physically" since the end of developing only fifteen days before Equiplast. The who did was at the fair, and for the first time in Barcelona, was a model of robot laser CO2 that was introduced in the latest edition of the Biennale of machine tool of Bilbao (Biemh) which took place earlier this year. This robot applications in the plastics industry are welding of plastics, reduction of components and cutting of sheets, deburring and cutting of molded parts with injection, drilling and drilling.

With regard to the recycled, stands out the model REC for the recycled of monofilamentos, film, raffias and pieces of injection grinded. The team consists of an extruder that can have six diameters (of 50 to 150 mm of diameter) with a length of husillo of 35 diameters. The extruder includes a system of desgasificación very effective endowed of bomb of empty with prefiltro and automatic cleaner. The shirt of plastification and the husillo manufacture in steel bimetálico.

Also in this appearance stands out the recycled of PET of bottle to flake. The process includes separador of metallic parts, prelavado with water, trituración, separador of paper and dust, raft separadora, washed in hot, friccionado of flake and dried.

Eurotecno Manufactures a wide range of models of mills of series or special. It treats of machines elaborated in chapones of steel mechanised and joined by hardware without weldings. These mills effect a cut type tijera. The blades are a sharp prism without taladro, without taladros of fixation, what avoids breaks. Of the mills, stand out the models MGV-80502 and MGV-120653, conceived for triturar pieces of big volume, of plastic materials in general. The mills MEV 26151 employ to grind the colada that expel the inyectoras, since they can go under any inyectora.

Finally, the MEC 26151 and the MEC 30201 use to grind the colada in hot that undone the extruder at the beginning of the cycle.

In addition to the installations devoted to recycling and the mills, Eurotecno has between his diverse peripherals types of cutting cutting shears and the model And-Strap 100/6 for the manufacture of flejes. These equipment have been projected to be robust, reliable and consume little power. It allows to manufacture flejes very technical for strapping automatic with big arches.

The cabezales of extrusion are endowed of pumps of volumetric control that allow to control the flow of the polymer with accuracy and of this form, achieve flejes of big dimensional stability.

Silmisa Machinery commissions to build and commercialise mills trituradores, destrozadores, mezcladores, automatic feeders and stravel transportadoras.

Over Is a company that defines to himself same like specialist in environingingment. It devotes to the integrated cheese cheese mills in cycles of transformation, to the mills for the recycling of plastics, for which also realises personalised installations and finally, to the environingingmental quality consultancy (auditsorias, SGMA and ISO 14000).

The Italian specialist in complete systems of recovery and recycled of plastic matters PRT, represented in Spain by Centrotécnica, presented the line Compak, especially developed for the manufacturers of film. It treats of a compact team, economic and versatile, to solve with quality the problem of the residue created by the lines of film, cast or similar. It is thought to recycle and regranular on line, the cuts of the film, cuts of coils of PELD, PEHD, PELLD, PP, PS, ABS, etc. The cut of film feeds to the team directly, thanks to a system of drag own, even being to some distance of the line, or in separate processes, feeding it directly with a coil. The result is a granulated of big quality, homogéneo and smart to be reutilizado. Therefore it treats of a complete system with extruder, drag, cambiador of filter and cutting in cabezal with cooling by air

Zingerle Metal is a manufacturer of Italian presses that explains in Spain with the subsidiary Zingerle Metal Spain. They direct mainly to the market of the recycling, since his presses are designed to compact diverse material (between them plastic waste). They stand out his modular presses (easily expandable) and the Autopresses to compact material with memory, like the espumosos. This machine does the compactación inside the machine and has a capacity of 800 kg by hour. Compact film, foams and all type of plastics. Also they possess vertical presses of big capacity thought for big surfaces. On the other hand, it is interesting to ascertain the fact that the available forecasts of these equipment have increased as a result of the relative environingingmental rule to the recycling.

Frisal specializes in machines for industrial refrigeration and cold storage facilities. Of these he has the series MF for closed circuit and the MFA of open circuit.

Signature Tec-Fred Servei, Terrassa (Barcelona) is dedicated to the manufacture of plastic peripherals, basically to cool the water.

Sinerges Tecmon markets handlers for loading and unloading, conveyors and step by step motors the signature Item, aluminium, Phytron, profile components, Flex and Elcom, which makes transport and assembly lines. As we were told, the latter referred to transport is relatively new to the firm.

The first has a closure of injection completely built in forged steel and can reach a production cycle of 3.2 seconds. This machine is specifically designed to increase the pace of production in the moulding of thin-walled packaging products and to ensure accuracy and repeatability in the characteristics of technical articles.

The second model, the 500 Unyka, has a space between columns oversized and stands out for its ruggedness and reliability. Unit locking leads incorporated a double knee of five points. Dishes fixed or movable, forged steel, has been made according to Euromap/SPI standards and possess T grooves to facilitate the crimping of the mold.

This unit's closure, the Unyka CL series models, is somewhat different. The injectors of this series is characterized by its closure system with a rodillera double seven (patented by Plastic Metal). Compared with the same tonnage machines which are equipped with traditional knee locking systems, this innovative knee allows to increase significantly the mobile plate opening race and the race of the hydraulic extractor.

Transitus presented his own Minitrans 5 mini-inyectora at the fair. This is a fuel transfer of 5 tons of closure whose novelty lies in that it is going to 200 v volts single phase. It is also be equipped with spindle for working with dye and as a machine of high precision and very low consumption.

Also, at the stand of Transitus of saw the new series are-direct of injectors from 30 up to 180 tons of closing completely electrical of the Japanese manufacturer Sumitomo. It's electric injectors with the drive spindle, the closure and the ejector via a servo-motor (manufactured by Sumitomo) and a spindle to balls. These direct drives guarantee a very high injection accuracy.

This company also took the fair for the presentation in the market Spanish the mini-extrusora Rondol Linear 18, a machine to 220 volts single-phase, which can be equipped with various peripherals for the extrusion of monofilament, tubes, profiles, lines of pelletising, etc., specially designed for testing in laboratories.

Technical mechanics the Vallegon engaged in the manufacture and repair of equipment for extrusion and injection. Within this activity, they are specialized in the engineering of design for different polymers, the spindles (nitrurados, chrome, armored with Stellites, Colmonoy or Tribaloy), nitruradas or bimetallic cameras, dosing equipment and spindles for the injection of fast loading and high plasticizing.

Another novelty is the TM 30 extruder. Mechanically offers great flexibility of use, rapid changes of configuration, cylinder with warming and including cooling, spindles with easy-clean finish geometry and the use of special steel to prevent corrosion and wear. It is intended to work of laboratory and small industrial productions; in processes of multiple sectors such as masterbatch, hot melt, rubber, tecnopolimeros, compounds, polymeric mixtures by reaction, reduction of monomers and/or solvents, rubber, dewatering, etc. The results obtained in this small extruder are applicable to high production lines.

TSA (Centrotécnica), firm specializing in the manufacture of extrusion machines of double componible spindle for laboratory and small production showed renewed line of extrusion machines of double screw corrotante EMP45 for the masterbatch industry. The extruder with cylinder of openness to "shell", electric heating, cooling water, 40:1 and furniture husillos length, is characterized by a great robustness, a compact design and high production capacity. Equipped with an engine of 48 kW., the twist of husillos is of up to 750 rpm with engine of 60 kW. TSA offers a full range of laboratory and production with extrusion machines of husillos of 21-26-32 and 45 mm in diameter

Union, European leader in the design and manufacture of complete lines for sheet and plate, represented in Spain by Centrotécnica, unveiled their latest in the extrusion of PET. New applications and materials research, Union certainly was the first Italian manufacturer who gave a team to produce PET foil. Likewise, teams came true for work sheet of PET on the basis of 100% recovered material (scales of crushed PET bottles). It has developed a team to produce sheet of PET that does not use Crystallizer or dehumidifier. The secret of this team is in the extruder single with l/D = 38: 1 with double system of deaerating bombings special and complex equipment developed by the company itself. On the other hand it should be noted that within the industrial group of Union is manufacturer of high precision Simplas flat heads, which equips the Union lines and many other manufacturers.

Developments industrial GK 98, El Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz), develops a broad activity in the plastics sector. Designs machinery to make bags (basically for industrial use), extrusion machines, cutting stamping and drilling machines, advises companies technically and incinerate machines.

However, its latest developments include a new system for the design of extrusion heads. With this system is manufactured a prototype in collaboration with German engineers, among them Frank Lübke. This initial prototype (a three-layer extrusion head) has already reached a first stage of manufacture. The new head is called Z3 C45

You could say that the way to conceive and design this prototype is the "inverse" to traditional systems. First conceived the route of the inner channels and from here, the way outside of the head. The design of these internal channels is generated automatically. It should enter data in a database which in turn, are linked with a program of parametric design (Catia V5). To change the design only there to change the data. Added to this is a patented internal cooling design that allows to leave the center of the head free. Thanks to this new system, the firm can develop quickly new heads saving development costs.

Daalgo is distributor of the Italian Comec, a firm that is dedicated to printing for pad printing. At the fair led the InkPrint range and a novelty in this range: the XP - 10 InKPrint, a machine that will be released next year. It's a compact model that incorporates tampon cleaning and dryer piece buffer.

Flexotec S.L., which manufactures machinery for graphic arts, was in the fair basically by their teams for the flexographic printing, and their cortadoras-rebobinadoras machines. Its range of machines are the teams to mark the green dot that can be installed on any production line.

The firm Gescoven, which was at the show two stand, at the Salon Equiplast and Eurosurfas, is dedicated to the cleaning of moulds of plastic or rubber. New submitted this year is the Laserblast line: a range of machines that cleans, prepares and tries to surfaces using the laser. The advantage of this system is that no disassemble the mold to clean it, do not use solvents, there no abrasion on the surface and it does not need to be polished after cleaning.

Grafictamp printing systems is dedicated to the commercialization of printing systems to decorate, representing the European companies of the multinational ITW in Spain. As we were told at their booth, its strong point is the transfer for decoration. The signature presented a machine which used this system (Fapa model). The advantages of this method of printing are, according to the company, the possibility of using 15 colors in a single printing and a "perfect graphic quality".

The firm works with major companies in the sectors of cosmetics, household appliances, packaging and automotive. One of their latest developments is the new Cup created by the famous Tupperware brand. The Cup, which was exposed in the stand, was decorated with a printed adhesive transfer that changes color with the temperature.

The firm Trelsa systems manufactures equipment for mother-to-be Crown, a type of surface treatment to facilitate the accession of inks, varnishes, lacquers and adhesives. This treatment is used in materials of surface tension reduced such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamides and PVC among others.

SPE screen printing machinery, led to the fair their models of machines for printing plastic P-30-PC-40.

FISA Iberian sells machines of cleaning by ultrasound. For Equiplast, include equipment to clean the moulds used in plastics - small and medium-sized dimensions.

Velox is a German multinational company with a Spanish subsidiary in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) dedicated to superespecializados products (materials, additives, TPUs and adhesives etc). Although the Spanish subsidiary has only two years in Spain, the German multinational has existed for 13 years and has 5,000 clients. At the stand at the fair they performed demonstrations of one of these specialized products. It is of Asaclean, a resin for the purge and maintenance of extrusion and injection moulding machines and blow. The demonstration was carried out in a small extruder and the cleaning of the spindle was carried out in a few minutes. According to the managing director of the firm told us, this system cleans injectors of 750 tons in 12 minutes, save time and not spent resin. The product works well in the market but it costs about three times more than one resin normal.

Soflex, manufacturer of machines for bags, led to his stand two machines: the SX-85.2 TT model for the elaboration of bags of t-shirt in block of two or three tracks, which are used in supermarkets. For its part, the SX-105.3 B is a model to make bags with bottom weld. This machine is very well sold to African industries, which use the bags for freezing their products manufactured and therefore are known as "freezing bags". Soflex is a company that has just experienced an important process of expansion that has just been moved from its old facilities of Barberà del Vallès (Barcelona) to a new ship of 2,000 m2 in the polígono Pedrosa of Masquefa (Barcelona). The firm sold machinery to Africa, Europe and South America.

Sonotronic offers welding by ultrasound, hot plate and laser technology. In addition to the standard machines, the company carries out specific facilities at the three technologies. You can install a machine for welding by ultrasound with mobile bridge powered by servo motors or axis CN, for example.

Sonotronic also provides solutions in welding by laser. The laser offers a great precision and prevents the deformation. It has a high resistance, does not provide material, is flexible and enables economic output, among other advantages. The firm has of laser welding systems for points, orbital (for small series) and simultaneously (for large series). In addition, to ensure the quality of the process, the firm integrates control and process control. This type of technology has new fields of application in the TP/TP, TP/TPE, Union and thermoplastic and metal.

Finally, the company also focuses on electromagnetic welding, an adequate process for hard fibres and pieces of large and complex geometry. Its main advantage is that it allows the welding of different materials and soft materials on hard materials.

On the other hand, this company works in new procedures for welding with various technical institutes. Result of these collaborations was created a new economic treatment of ultrasonic components to avoid wear on the surface of the sonotrodo. Also created a technique of ultrasonic cutting and a rolling sonotrodo for a continuous weld.

ICC, which has recently changed its corporate name by Mecasonic Spain, is dedicated to the Assembly of plastics using ultrasonic, hot plate or vibrations.

The stand of Ineo, engineering specializes in prototypes, highlighted a prototype natural size of the motorcycle Derbi Boulevard, one of the recent work carried out by the firm for Derbi - and that he was introduced to the public in July of this year. It's a prototype of PU which has its main difficulty that requires very large moulds and difficult handling.

Xavier Ribas distributions techniques signature is dedicated to the distribution of nozzles and chambers of injection, spare parts, resistors and connectors for molds. As a novelty, this edition featured a new represented company, Airtec, which set out a leak detector.

The signatures represented by Tecniseco engineers and present at the booth were the Spanish Fisair and the German Aerial. It was equipment control of humidity and dehumidification system for the production of moulds.

Regulate products industry, representative of the Injection & Molding Systems firm, presented at the fair its hot chambers.

At the fair there were also Greek companies as Epsi, atemperadores of moulds manufacturer.

Lafita workshops is dedicated to build components for moulds, - bushings, centering columns...-. Sell standardized for the tooling industry and, in general, to all industrial sectors. This signature has other subsidiaries as Bolexp standard. The company has presented this edition of Equiplast some columns sloping to molds. This system simplifies the moldistas work because avoid them the need to rotate the head. For now this is a sample that have been made to present at the fair, since until February will not begin to manufacture in series.

Orihuela and Moret (Orymo) is dedicated to the injection of hot camera systems. The firm is responsible for the entire process: design of the House, installation and testing of the system. The work includes a design using tools falls and analysis, Moldflow software, problems that can cause the piece in the production process. Finally, the firm provides all the documentation necessary to implement the system: study of rheological, flat mounting and installation.

Orymo works for the sectors of automobiles, electronics and computing, and appliances.

The signing of steels for molds, Sermetal Barcelona presented at the fair a new steel developed by the Buderus firm, called Thruhard Supreme. This material guarantees maximum safety of product even with large size of mold and a hardness of up to 38 HRC (high capacity of polished and wear-resistant). Despite the hardness, this steel is easy to machine, has a good thermal conductivity and is easy to solder.

Projects and Regulation (PYR) presented in Equiplast two products developed recently. On the one hand, a model of digital module for reduction of wave to hot casting (CRT-3000), which, unlike other modules, regulates the temperature in an "intelligent" manner. This means that the module regulates the power required to maintain a stable temperature of the heat and avoid the typical temperature oscillations that may alter the characteristics of an injected piece. In addition, this module allows you to program the preheating and, in the event that the thermocouple to break or be pues, control passes to manual mode with the value of tension which employed in automatic.

Another novelty is a system for monitoring remote which consists of one or more video cameras connected to a computer via internet or a local network.

But the main novelty of Aida is the agreement reached with the signing Gedas (subsidiary specialized in technologies of the information of the Volkswagen Group) to jointly distribute software modeling Moldex, which in its new version already allows to work in 3D. It is manufactured by the firm Coretech.

During the fair presented the latest version of the software Geslab, called Geslab Mercury Net. Thought lab management software to connect different departments of a company or several companies. It works in databases accessible via the internet.

Octogon is a German company founded in 1987 and which employs about 30 people in the development, manufacture and sale of systems of measurement for blow-moulding lines. Its new line of products, the ScenEx, is based on modularity to accommodate the individual needs of each transformer.

The German firm, of American origin Gala, represented in Spain by Centrotécnica, presented the latest technology of granulation of pellets and micropellets underwater, drying of material and equipment for laboratory. Also the teams of court with automatic adjustment of the blades could know accurately, by means of a pneumatic system; centrifugal dryers of modular type, allowing to easily replace the parts subject to wear, the friction of the granule, reducing the cost of maintenance and being suitable for the spinning of loaded granules, such as for example with 50% glass fibre. Also stressed the new models for fast color or material changes, as well as the experienced teams of the MB series for masterbatch, with capacity of up to 1,000 kg/h. with collector of fine inside the tank. There were also new cutting systems to productions of 40,000 kg/h.

Machining Centres C.M.S. is the Spanish subsidiary of the Italian CMS firm, specializing in machinery for machining of different materials. Equiplast took machinery of the mark CMS and Villa (a brand of machines of termoconformar which depends on CMS).

CMS outlined a centre of machining - model PK - for machining plastics or resin moulds. It has a head of five axes and double operating field. This means that machining area is two-fold and the machine ever needs to stop. At the fair he was working with a Fanuc robot in a machining and handling system designed by the same firm, which is also responsible for customizing the automation.

A thermoforming machine setting out of town. A model that offers versatility and a time of change of mold carried out in less than five minutes. The entire process is controlled automatically.

The Spanish subsidiary works since 2000 and have installed a dozen machines for machining of plastics and 500 around the world.

ITSA, Industrial Transformados is dedicated to the supply of injection parts and painted plastic. The firm will inject from 650 to 2,300 tonnes. For this edition of the fair Equiplast aims to strengthen the section of injection through the expansion of the Park of machinery.