A Tier One exclusive manufacturer supplies motorists with kinematic components and systems and remains interested in new developments. A 3D printing pioneer now combines prototype and small series production with injection moulding and tooling technology for large series as well. An injection moulding company focuses not only on energy efficiency and in-house electricity generation, but also on active load management. A Hungarian farmer thermoforms packaging for his vegetables himself and now also extrudes the films himself. And the most modern sorting plant for post-consumer waste can sort half of the lightweight plastic packaging produced in Austria – these are the major exclusive articles in the current issue 3/2025 of K-PROFI international.
Click here for the title of the current issue. And now to the details: Energy saving is on everyone‘s lips. The injection moulding and assembly company Schlaeger goes one step further and, in addition to energy efficiency and generating its own electricity, also focuses on active load management: page 6.
Funk 3D is a Tier 1 exclusive manufacturer that primarily supplies automotive companies with kinematic components and systems. Carola Funk and Adam Pawolka explained their curiosity, responsiveness and tools for bad times: page 8. Formtec combines thermoformed components with PUR components to create components for commercial vehicles, caravans and mechanical engineering: page 16.
TriPlast in Enns can sort half of the lightweight plastic packaging produced in Austria. The most modern sorting plant for post-consumer waste on page 22. Ralf Nachreiner recognised the potential of additive manufacturing back in 1994 and focused Cirp on rapid prototyping. Today, the company has two main areas of business: prototype and small-batch production, and injection moulding and tooling technology for series production: page 26.
Hungarian farmer Tamás Kurucsai has been thermoforming PP packaging for his home-grown vegetables for a long time. Now he is switching to PET with recycled content and also extruding the films himself in order to produce his packaging materials from a single source in a particularly efficient manner: page 34.
‘The Power of Plastics! Green. Smart. Responsible.’ is the motto of the world’s leading trade fair ’K 2025’ from 8 to 15 October. My team and I are responsible for the daily trade fair newspaper K-AKTUELL in Düsseldorf, which you can find – in German, however – in many hotels and at the entrance to the trade fair. We look forward to seeing you at the KI Group stand in Hall 6, Stand C28.
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