Wittmann opens new technology centre in Germany

Machinery maker Wittmann Battenfeld recently opened its expanded and redesigned application technology centre at its Nuremberg site with the expanded range on offer focusing on energy efficiency and the circular economy.

"Reducing the CO2 footprint is an absolute necessity. Measures to increase energy efficiency and sustainability only have a chance if they also pay off economically," emphasised Andreas Schramm, Managing Director of the German subsidiary of the Austria-based Wittmann Group. "This is exactly what our developers have firmly in mind. In our new technical center, economic sustainability can be experienced directly."

The capacities in the technical centre are available to all customers of Wittmann, it adds, for individual presentations, joint development work, technical application consulting, material and mould trials as well as factory acceptance tests.

Two large injection moulding production cells are located in the technical centre, whereby the applications presented will change frequently.

A servo-hydraulic SmartPower and an all-electric EcoPower injection moulding machine produced guest gifts on the opening day of the centre. Both applications show how easy it is to exploit the potential for CO2 savings, the company says.

Among other things, the high energy efficiency of the machines, digital assistance systems and the processing of recycled materials contribute to this. The advantages of complete solutions from a single source also become clear.

“With complete solutions, we can precisely coordinate all components of the production cell right from the start and thus exploit efficiency and quality potential particularly well,” said Schramm.

He furthered that the group offers solutions from its own development and production across the entire production process – from material preparation, injection moulding, temperature control and automation to inline recycling and the integration of digital solutions.

Other exhibits in the new technical centre focus on mould temperature control, peripherals, automation, recyclate processing and 4.0 networking. These include smart recycling packages, the Expert MouldTemp assistance system, the WX90 servo removal unit and the Feedmax Clean conveyor unit with integrated dedusting.

Wittmann has two locations in Germany – the second location in addition to Nuremberg is Meinerzhagen. The customer technology centre there was expanded and technologically upgraded two years ago. The entire product range of the group can now be experienced live at both locations, with the technologies presented complementing each other. One focus in Meinerzhagen, for example, is Cellmould lightweight technology, which is available on several machines there.

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