Wittmann’s Fakuma 2023 Drives Cost-Saving Innovation
Hot on the heels of the Wittmann Group’s success at Interplas 2023 comes this week’s Fakuma 2023 exhibition, October 17-21, Friedrichshafen, Germany’s premier plastics show.
A bumper crop of Wittmann energy and cost-saving innovations were unveiled there – with a continuing emphasis on saving the moulder time and cost through energy efficiency and design engineering.
Despite a general global slowdown with many trading issues for manufacturers, the Wittmann Group continues to be propelled by strong growth, with sales increases of 9% predicted for 2023. This week’s Fakuma shows that Wittmann also continues to plough investment into ever more efficient manufacturing solutions for injection moulders worldwide.
Visitors to the Fakuma 2023 show saw new Wittmann equipment all across the board – new injection moulding machines, automation, gravimetric polymer blenders designed for recyclate; material dryers and temperature controllers.
Last year’s K show in Düsseldorf unveiled Wittmann’s bold unveiling of a solar-powered injection moulding machine. This week sees the unveiling of another such solar-powered machine – the EcoPower B8X – proving that the Group’s engineering design team sees no limits when it comes to reducing carbon footprint for customers and competing in the emerging circular economy.
Joint Wittmann Battenfeld UK MD Dan Williams says that ‘when it comes to our UK and Irish markets, we receive inestimable value from the constant flow of Wittmann technical innovation and production insights. The common thread with all is the drive to efficiency and the reduction of moulding cost. And this relates to moulding fundamentals as well as ‘high-end’ technology.’
The new Primus 28 robot is a case in point. The Wittmann Primus robot range is well known for its rugged build and affordability, and the Primus 28 takes these benefits even further – designed for IMM machines from 150 to 400 t, the new robot now has an increased load capacity of up to 15kg, an extended Y axis and, importantly, this Primus robot becomes the 128 model when supplied with Wittmann’s Primus R9 control. ‘To tell you the truth,’ says Dan, ‘you would be very hard-pressed to find a more perfect entry-level automation solution anywhere.’
Interplas 2023 showed that Wittmann’s leading technologies and its exhibits succeeded in capturing the mood of an industry needing to control costs and optimise outputs. This week’s Fakuma 2023 has now delivered the means for that objective: a raft of new equipment and measurement tools just made for plastics processing efficiency.
Wittmann Group Fakuma show highlights are here: https://www.wittmann-group.com/en/fakuma-2023
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