WITTMANN BATTENFELD wins a medal at the Plastpol again this year

It has become almost a tradition – again in 2013, WITTMANN BATTENFELD has taken home a medal from the Plastpol in Kielce. This year, the company won the first prize in the category of machine and process technology for its newly presented IMIW process.

The IMIW process – IMIW stands for “In-Mould Internal Welding” – has made it possible to overmold inserts with gas- and watertight sealing. The connection is made directly between the contact surfaces by joining the two injection-molded plastic halves from the inside, using the same plastic material the parts are made of. The finished parts show neither a ridge nor a welding bead, the weld seam has an extremely high load capacity. This process, for which Barkley, UK has developed the mold technology and the equipment is marketed by WITTMANN BATTENFELD, is of special interest for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. At the Plastpol, this process was demonstrated by overmolding an electronic part on an EcoPower 110/350, an all-electric machine from WITTMANN BATTENFELD’s PowerSeries.

Source: WITTMANN BATTENFELD