Edition 317
20 April 2023
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Hi Jessica, welcome to the latest plastics news from PlastikMedia.
This week's edition features...
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arburg HQ
ARBURG Limited is delighted to welcome UK and Irish customers and contacts to its celebratory centenary open house event on 17th May in Warwick. The event continues from the successful ‘Anniversary Days’ exhibition, recently held at the company’s headquarters in Germany.
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woman engineer
The number of employers reporting skills shortages has increased six-fold over the past decade, according to the annual survey of more than 2,000 UK employers, with four in five businesses struggling to fill vacancies because of a lack of skilled workers.
Richard Brown at Sierra 57 Consult discusses how this can be rectified. 
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Intouch graphic showing production monitoring
Russell Roof Tiles recently invested in new technology to streamline its manufacturing.
Intouch Monitoring is a production monitoring system that will help the team focus on key downtime hotspots, assess potential efficiency gains, and will help strategic purchasing decisions.
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Gunther webinar info
Gunther UK, in partnership with CONTURA-MTC ®, presents ‘How to Achieve Significant Savings in Injection Moulding with Conformal Cooling,’ a complimentary webinar hosted on Tuesday, 9th May.
Reiner Heendeniya from Gunther UK Ltd will host the webinar, and the presentations will be delivered by colleagues at Contura.
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first machine to leave Parsdorf
The new main plant of the KraussMaffei Group in Parsdorf, east of Munich, has started up successfully: The first machine, a GX 451-3000 injection moulding machine, left the plant bound for Edinburgh (Indiana, USA).
Parsdorf is now also home to the Group headquarters, a large Customer Experience Center, the Group’s largest spare parts warehouse, the latest production technology and a new paint shop. 
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Stefan Engleder, CEO of ENGEL
The fiscal year closed at a record high, confirming the group’s strategic direction: ENGEL reports a 1.7 billion euros turnover for FY 2022/23 that ends in March. The company has hit the highest turnover in the group’s history. The business segments of Automotive, Medical, Packaging, and Technical Moulding contributed to this growth.
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LATI team
The fiscal year closed at a record high, confirming the group’s strategic direction: ENGEL reports a 1.7 billion euros turnover for FY 2022/23 that ends in March. The company has hit the highest turnover in the group’s history. The business segments of Automotive, Medical, Packaging, and Technical Moulding contributed to this growth.
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Wittmann SmartPower machine
Wittmann Battenfeld Spain will present the latest injection moulding and process technology to trade visitors at the Equiplast 2023 in Barcelona. 
At this year’s event, the main focus of the four exhibits will be on the energy efficiency of the equipment and the opportunities to manufacture sustainable products by using ultra-modern process technology.
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Coral Products PLC are proud to have a focus on sustainability and is pleased to introduce the End-Of-Life Recycling scheme. Allowing customers to return their products once they have reached the end of their life cycle, as part of the recycling process.
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sheet extrusion
The team at Customised Packaging Limited can manufacture their own high-quality polyolefin sheet and rolls, with a sheet capacity up to 1560mm wide and custom length and roll capacity up to 1400mm wide and custom length.
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The aim for PlastikConnect is exactly as it sounds, to connect the UK & Irish plastics industries, for our PlastikCity Partners to gain knowledge and work with each other.
 
Despite the plastics industry being one of the UK’s largest manufacturing sectors, with an annual turnover of £27 billion, we only really gather together one or two times a year at events such as the PIA’s.
 
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Producing a mould tool can come at a large expense. Whilst this initial outlay is worth it due to the economies of scale that come with producing hundreds of thousands of plastic mouldings, avoiding unnecessary costs during the process is still important.
Selecting the right partner to work with is key to your success and bottom line.
 
 
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