Arburg receives "great interest" in Golden Electric machine

Arburg has said it's Golden Electric machine on display at Interplas is receiving "great interest", particularly because of the integrated hydraulics for core pulls.

The IMM manufacturer's machinery highlights are the Allrounder Golden Electric for cost-effective entry into electric moulded part production, and Freeformer, Arburg's Plastic Freeforming for additive manufacturing of implants made from medical grade PLA.

An Allrounder from the electric entry-level Golden Electric machine series is demonstrating the cost-efficient automated production of high-quality parts based on the example of "stacking boxes".

The electric Allrounder Golden Electric machines are available in four sizes with clamping forces from 600 to 2,000 kN. Thanks to consistent standardisation with, for example, a fixed combination of distance between tie-bars, clamping force and injection unit size, this machine series offers an outstanding price/performance ratio. The dual five-point toggle system ensures high-performance and fast cycles. The play-free spindle drives operate with great precision. The position-regulated screw ensures excellent moulded part quality.

Colin Tirel, Managing Director of Arburg UK in Warwick, said: "The Interplas trade fair affords an excellent platform for presenting our wide range of machines for the production-efficient manufacture of plastic parts to our customers in the UK and Ireland."

Arburg is also demonstrating the potential of Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) for medical technology, to make implants from resorbable plastic. A Freeformer will use an additive manufacturing process to produce customised implants for facial and cranial bones from the same qualified, commercially available plastic granulate as used in injection moulding. The raw material employed is medical polylactide (PLA), which is resorbed by the body after a defined length of time.