Plast Platinum Award 2015 for Freeformer

Plast Platinum Award 2015 for Freeformer

• Award-winning: innovative Arburg system for industrial additive manufacturing
• Proud: subsidiary manager Dr. Slawomir Sniady accepts medal
• Ceremony: prize-giving at the Plastpol 2015 trade fair in Kielce, Poland

Lossburg. On 27 May 2015, at the specialist Plastpol trade fair in Kielce, Arburg was awarded the Plast Platinum Award medal in the plastics processing machines and systems category. This trade-fair award, which is presented annually, honours the development and implementation of ground-breaking technologies as well as economic and ecological innovations. Dr. Slamowir Sniady, Managing Director of Arburg Polska Sp. z o o. accepted the award for the Freeformer.

The award winners are selected from numerous submissions and bestowed in a variety of categories. This year, the independent panel of judges comprising eminent specialists from the Polish plastics community met under the chairmanship of Prof. Marek Bielinsky of the Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology. Initially, all the applications are examined in detail. The members of the panel of judges then visit the companies at their exhibition stands, view the exhibits there and discuss details with the specialists from the various companies. Finally, the award-winners are selected and the prizes awarded to the relevant submissions.

Prestigious award for the Freeformer

Arburg has been awarded one of the coveted medals in the area of innovations to plastics processing machines and systems for the Freeformer as the most innovative system for industrial additive manufacturing of fully functional one-off parts of multi-variant small-volume batches. With the Arburg Plastic Freeforming process, fully functional parts can be manufactured additively from conventional standard plastic granulates based on 3D CAD data without a mould. Similarly to injection moulding, the granulate is first melted in a plasticising cylinder and the part is then built up layer-by-layer from tiny droplets. The discharge unit with the nozzle remains stationary and it is the part carrier which moves along several axes.

The Plast Platinum Award medal is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded within the industry in Poland. Since its market launch at the K 2013, the Freeformer has already received a number of prizes, including the renowned Red Dot Award for excellence in product design.

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Delighted with the Plast Platinum Award 2015 medal: Dr. Slawomir Sniady (centre),Manager of Arburg Polska Sp. zo o.,Marek Zloch, Manager Additive Manufacturing (left), and Patric Kaisers from the Plastic Freeforming team at the German Arburg parent company.

Photo: ARBURG

About Arburg

German machine manufacturer Arburg is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of injection moulding machines with clamping forces between 125 and 5,000 kN. This is complemented by robotic systems, customer- and sector-specific turnkey solutions and further peripherals. An innovative additive manufacturing system was added to the plastic processing range in 2013.

The company places the topic of production efficiency at the centre of all its activities, taking into account the entire value-added chain. The objective is to enable the Arburg customers to manufacture their plastic products, whether one-off parts or high-volume production, in optimal quality and at minimum unit costs – e.g. for the automotive and packaging industries, communication and entertainment electronics, medical technology, or the white goods sector.

An international sales and service network guarantees first-class, local customer support. Arburg is represented by its own organisations at 32 locations in 24 countries and by trading partners in more than 50 countries. The machines are produced exclusively at the parent factory in Lossburg, Germany. From a total of around 2,400 employees, around 2,000 work in Germany. About 400 further employees work in Arburg’s organisations around the world. In 2012, Arburg became one of the first companies to gain triple certification: to ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environment) and ISO 50001 (Energy).

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