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PlastiVation’s shaking up the machinery space

ers want is the economic cost base of where. Our goal is not to beat our
China, with the technology of a Ger- competitors on price, although if we
man machine. And so that is how Plas- have to, we will.”
tiVation was born.” Meanwhile, as a result, PlastiVation
As a result of the close collaboration has been able to attract new custom-
with Tederic, PlastiVation also be- ers for these machines, even from the
came that company’s the exclusive notoriously demanding automotive
representative for Germany, supply- industry.
ing the Tederic NEO series injection The NEO series currently consists
moulding machines to customers in of four injection moulding machines
here’s a new kid on the block in the DACH region. Customer care is models, two of which were on dis-
Tthe injection moulding machin- an important pillar at PlastiVation. The play at the booth at the Fakuma. The
ery space. München-based PlastiVa- company boasts an experienced team first, a NEO-E230/e620 electric tog-
tion Machinery GmbH was founded of experts, who can offer a compre- gle injection moulding machine, was
in 2021 by industry expert Bengt hensive range of application services moulding a business card holder in a
Schmidt with a focus from the get-go “Our people know almost all produc- complete production cell equipped
on electric machines and digitalisation. tion, application and control process- with an industrial robot; the second,
The company is currently working on es inside out,” Schmidt asserted. a NEO-T90/i380 machine described
the development of its proprietary Fakuma marked the launch of the sec- by the company as a cost-efficient hy-
series of intelligent, electric machines ond generation of Tederic NEO injec- draulic toggle injection moulding ma-
scheduled to hit the market in 2025 tion moulding machines in Germany, chine, was producing a plastic cup.
under the brand name Hurricane. Austria and Switzerland. PlastiVation The second-generation high-per-
Schmidt, formerly of KraussMaffei, is launched the first Tederic NEO ma- formance electric toggle injection
setting the bar high for the new ma- chines on the market two years ago. moulding machines in the NEO-E se-
chine line. “We want to convince cus- This new generation expands the se- ries are now available with clamping
tomers with our technology,” he said. ries, adding models with significantly force sizes of up to 1,400 - previously
The new machines will incorporate higher clamping force sizes and more 1,088; the hydromechanical two-
all the latest European technology as advanced technology, as in addition platen machines of the NEO-H series
a standard. For the base, PlastiVation to distributing the Tederic machines, have been expanded with new mod-
has partnered with Chinese injection PlastiVation has also worked to im- els reaching up to 5,500 t (previously
moulding machinery company Teder- prove their performance ‘under the 4,500 t); the multi-component injec-
ic, founded in Hangzhou in 2003 and hood’, as it were. tion moulding machines of the NEO-
now one of the three leading Chinese “The second generation looks like the M series will now be available in sizes
injection moulding machine manufac- first on the outside,” said Schmidt. up to 3,520 t (previously 1,920 t); and
turers. “The collaboration with Ted- “But as we announced here: the en- the cost-efficient hydraulic universal
eric is based on a strong foundation gineering has been done by us. We injection moulding machine NEO-T
and the supply chain from China is worked with the engineers from Ted- up to 1,050 t (previously 500 t).
stable. We have consistently digitised eric – their machines, our knowledge Asked about plans to expand their
internal processes from the start,” – and have brought the machine to an activities beyond the DACH region
said Schmidt, speaking with Sustain- entirely new level.” One, he point- in Europe, Schmidt said that any cus-
able Plastics at the Fakuma in Octo- ed out, that perhaps only one other tomers outside that area would of
ber. By building the machine in China, Chinese machine can aspire to. “Our course, would be able buy a machine
the price of the all-electric highly ad- technology is our selling point. We - ‘of course’. Right now, he explained,
vanced Hurricane will match that of a listen to our customers to fulfil their the focus is on Mexico, where busi-
hydraulic European machine, he add- specific needs instead of the kind of ness is booming.
ed. “I believe that what our custom- one-size-fits-all approach seen else-

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