The Spang & Brands Technology Center in Friedrichsdorf, built two years ago, is now operational in everyday business: "In a few months, we will relocate the F & E department, so that the performance chain will be complete," explains Managing Director Friedrich Echterdiek. From the initial customer i…

- Injection moulding: Electric Allrounder produces pill splitters in high volumes
- Additive manufacturing: Freeformer for prototyping a medical technology article
- IML application: High-speed "Packaging" version of the hybrid Allrounder

Arburg will be presenting the complete range of plastic parts p…

Floor coverings made of polyvinyl chloride, commonly called PVC, are especially popular in the commercial sector and in public facilities, hospitals, bathrooms, and many other applications. Now, laying high-quality PVC floors is even easier.

The Advantages of PVC Floors

PVC is easy to dye, and its str…

30 years ago, the Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA set purity technology on its agenda. Since then, its commitment in this field has steadily grown. Today, it is one of the leading institutions worldwide. It not only has the largest test cleanroom of ISO Cl…

During this year’s Chinaplas in Shanghai from the 25th to the 28th of April in hall E1, motan-colortronic Plastics Machinery Co., Ltd (Taicang) will show that the combination of established technologies from both motan and colortronic is key. The focus will be the METRO G material loaders, which can…

A quarter-century of grown and proven know-how

The STZ EURO in Offenburg was founded in 1987 as a transfer center of the Steinbeis Foundation. The Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG for Technology Transfer, affiliated with the Steinbeis Network, currently includes over 1,000 Steinbeis companies that provide…

South Baden company eucatech AG develops and produces minimally invasive medical products for the treatment of vascular disease. Their highly sensitive products, such as heart catheters and stents, are used in cardiac and vascular surgery and are manufactured under the strictest of hygienic standard…

In the Cleanroom Online Newsletter, Issue DE 02/2016, an article "Specialist for the Optimization of Cleanroom Hygiene" by Hydroflex, Gladenbach, was published:

Excerpt:

… “Special attention is also paid to the development of single-use mop systems for maximum safety and efficiency in cleaning and dis…

This guiding paper provides effective protection against static charge buildup during the manufacturing process as well as during storage and transportation.

It is suitable as an insert for wafers, circuit boards, and other electronic products, as well as for chip placement.

Components used in a space mission must be meticulously cleaned. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA have designed a cleanroom, in which even contaminants at the nanometer level can be removed. Together with partners, the experts clean and sterilize…