34 EVENT REVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 No. 11/24 www.petpla.net Solutions for sustainability, precision, and efficiency across key industries At Fakuma 2024, Husky Technologies showcased the company’s latest range of technologies, solutions, and services that aim to enable food, beverage, consumer goods, consumer electronics, automotive, medical device producers and mould makers to achieve sustainability, growth, differentiation, flexibility, stability, and profitability. “We’re particularly excited this year to demonstrate how we’re supporting this goal by enabling the use of more bio and sensitive resins, designing for recyclability, and improving energy efficiency. From food and beverage containers to medical products and consumer goods, our goal is to develop solutions that promote circularity, sustainability, and help make the world a better place,” said Sean Hoy, Husky’s Vice President of Sales, Hot Runners and Controllers. The highlights on display included several advanced technologies designed to enhance efficiency, precision, and sustainability in injection moulding. Ultra SideGate Technology 2.0 offers a broader operating window and easier system maintenance, thanks to a new heater design and optimised head and tip that reduce wear and improve mould integration. Another advancement, the UltraHelix Valve Gating, delivers extended run-time cycle performance, which, according to Husky, helps reduce both production time and spare part costs. Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) injection moulding also showcased how it differs from traditional thermoplastic injection moulding, demonstrating the benefits of runner-less moulding and the waste reduction achieved with cold deck technology. Further innovations were evident in UltraSync Technology, which ensures consistent part filling through reduced nozzle pitch ranges and 100% valve stem synchronisation. UltraMelt Technology, an award-winning hot runner system, facilitates the efficient and sustainable moulding of bio and sensitive resins. Recognised for its contributions to sustainable practices, UltraMelt received this year’s Innovation in Bioplastics award. The Altanium family of mould controllers, featuring Husky’s Active Reasoning Technology (ART 2.0) and DataWave 2.0 Technology, is designed for highcavitation and stack tools, boosting productivity and lowering costs. Lastly, UltraShot Technology empowers moulders to improve part quality, consistency, and repeatability by integrating hot melt delivery with injection processes specifically tailored for the precise moulding of medical devices and consumables. PET for the medical market segment The company also showcased its advanced technologies designed to meet the precision, reliability, and efficiency demands of medical device production. According to Thomas Bontempi, General Manager of Husky’s Medical Business, PET remains a top material choice for medical consumables, with over 70% of today’s devices utilising PET and other medical-grade polymers. Key technologies highl ighted included Husky’s ICHOR system, which integrates mould, hot runner, controller, press, automation, and ancillary equipment to support various medical applications. Husky also demonstrated pipette tip production using up to 64-cavity moulds. For complex auto- and peninjectors, the company’s solutions are claimed to enable high-precision moulding with features such as lift, strip, or servo-driven activation to support consistent production with technical resins. Additionally, Husky’s capabilities extend to high-volume and complex stack moulds, including 192-cavity moulds and lower-cavitation options for highoutput or highly specialised applications. www.husky.co Cooling, climate and drying technologies Blue Air Systems GmbH, an Austriabased company, founded in 2010, supplies the plastics industry with technologies focusing on climate technology. This includes solutions for extremely dry and cold air for energy efficient processing in the plastics industry. In the range of material drying, the company offers an energy saving resin dryer series RD based on compressed air technology with hopper sizes from 0.5-1,300 l. In cl imate technology, the core business is focused on internal product cooling (series CAC) and dehumidification units (series DMS). This DMS system allows energy-efficient mould dehumidification without the need for cooling water and has potential for up to 85% energy savings. The Compressed Air Chiller (CAC) replaces the regular blowing air with chilled compressed air (-35 °C) inside the container during the blowing process and is claimed to guarantee as production increase up to 40%. www.blue-air.at The modular resin dryer RDL uses pre- dried compressed air for drying, either from the customer’s air system, from an integrated compressor or from the exhaust air of the blowing process of an ISBM machine. Available material capacity ranges from 24-200 kg/h. It is applicable for all resins including PET.
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