ENGEL at K 2007- Technological Versatility and Precision for Teletronics
ENGEL has bundled its activities for the electrical industry (low voltage), electronics and communications in its Teletronics Division. At the world's leading plastics fair, K 2007, from 24th to 31st October in Düsseldorf, Germany, ENGEL will be showing a representative cross-section of mod-ern production technology for plugs, mobile phones, and precision micro-parts.
Switch made of polyamide and polyoxymethylene, produce using ENGEL's combimelt three-component technology using a 3*4-cavity ENGEL mould on an ENGEL victory 330H/80W/80V/130
The most significant innovation on the machine side at K 2007 will be the newly devel-oped, compact, fully-electric ENGEL e-max 200/100 machine with a clamping force of 1.000 kN – rounded off to provide a turnkey production cell with a robot/parts removal unit ENGEL ERC 23 + Trayserver ENGEL ETS5 (for orientated parts depositing), which will be manufacturing mobile phone shells from a PC blend in a two-cavity mould. The precise, fully-electric ENGEL e-max machine is particularly compact, and includes a new clamping unit with four tie-bars, a large tie-bar gap, a wide opening stroke, and a generously dimen-sioned mould mounting space. The new injection unit achieves high injection speeds, high pressures, excellent precision, excellent dynamics and best-of-breed performance. Thanks to excellent performance, the ENGEL e-max offers excellent cost effectiveness..
Three-Component Injection Moulding of Switches
As an example of the kind of technological versatility ENGEL offers to the Teletronics in-dustry, ENGEL will be demonstrating the production of a switch using ENGEL combimelt three-component technology, with picking & placing and multi-component moulding. The switch is injection moulded using a 3*4-cavity ENGEL mould. An ENGEL victory 330H/80W/80V/130 with ENGEL ERC 63 parts removal robot will be producing the switch from Ultramid A3WG6 polyamide by BASF and two POM types (Delrin 577 and 500 by DuPont).
Versatile Machines, Processes and Applications
Besides the high-performance ENGEL speed injection moulding machines for the packag-ing industry, ENGEL will also be exhibiting the dual-platen ENGEL duo machine series, tiebar-less ENGEL victory machines, the fully-electric ENGEL e-motion precision machine, the compact, fully-electric ENGEL e-maximum and ENGEL elast machines, which special-ise in elastomer processing.