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Small sensor - great technology

2013-01-09: Gabriele Hopf, Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH

Multi-functional housing components for sensors in automobiles are the automotive segment in which the Austrian family-owned company Promotech, based in Schalchen near Mattighofen, specializes. One example is a combined rain, light and moisture sensor for motor cars (Fig. 1). The top part of its housing...
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Premium ambience for car interior - injection moulding meets craftsmanship

2012-10-30: Gabriele Hopf, Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH

In the pioneering days of automobile engineering, all vehicles had bodies with wooden frames and wooden dashboards, and they were premium products crafted individually and by hand. Today, the motorcar is a mass product made in different quality categories. But the premium-class models are distinguished...
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New glass fibre reinforced polyether TPUs

2012-09-07: J. Hättig, J. Winkler, P. Kläne*, geba Kunststoffcompounds GmbH / Bayer MaterialScience AG

High stiffness, very good impact resistance and flexibility even at low temperatures - these are the strengths of new glass fibre reinforced polyetherdiol based thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs). Bayer MaterialScience AG and geba Kunststoffcompounds GmbH developed the new TPU materials and they complement...
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Johannes Kepler University, Linz/Austria: IPMT Uses Three Instron Electrodynamic Testing Systems to Analyse Failure Properties of Polymers

2012-05-29: Erik Schmidt-Staubach, Instron Deutschland GmbH

Undergraduate and post-graduate students at the Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing (ipmt) at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz in Austria can rely on three Instron electrodynamic testing systems to help them analyse the failure behaviour of polymers. Two general-purpose ElectroPuls...
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Moulded carrier and hollow elastomer seal in a one shot process

2011-10-10: Matteo Piazzi, Röchling Automotive AG & Co. KG

Röchling Automotive produces cowl grille and engine cover bulb seals in a one shot process. These parts are ready out of the tool for shipment to the customer. The two-component process saves about 30% weight and 10% costs as well as solving many quality problems typical for assembled parts. A world first.
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Intake manifolds with integrated charge air coolers increase engine responsiveness

2010-07-23: Marco Barbolini, Röchling Automotive AG & Co. KG

Intake manifolds with integrated charge air coolers increase engine responsiveness, because air volume is reduced by over 40 percent. Further the integration cuts over 20 percent parts, weight and costs. Failure probability is shrinking also. Tightness, even air distribution, temperature and bursting...
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Fuel cell cars also cook only with water

2010-06-15: Matteo Piazzi, Röchling Automotive AG & Co. KG

Röchling Automotive supplies from its South Tirol plant fuel cell cars all over the world with expansion containers. Here the separation of gases and fluids as well as the management of bursting pressure require new measurements. Other specification criteria are met with state of the art container construction....
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Light Weight Construction on Solid Soil

2009-06-26: Dr. Klaus Pfaffelhuber, Röchling Automotive AG & Co. KG

With 5 kg for the complete underbody of a luxury saloon Röchling Automotive sets the current benchmark. The structural material “Seeberlite” is applied based on a new process, called “Softlofting”.
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From really large to really small

2009-05-08: Jörg Töpfer, WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH

Graf Plastics GmbH produces large volume Carat brand underground tanks for rainwater collection (photo 2) at its Teningen location (photo 1). Surplus production material arises during production of the up to 6,500 litres large containers and this is shredded in a single step into ground material with...
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The Gneuss Online Viscometer

2009-01-26: Dr. Axel Hannemann, Gneuß Kunststofftechnik GmbH


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