New benchmark in silicone processing

The benchmark S3 from DESMA is a vertical machine featuring a totally new design aimed at setting high standard in rubber and silicone injection moulding.

Precision and productivity through robotics

The manufacturing industry is a key component of Singapore’s economy, accounting for around a quarter of the country’s annual gross domestic product. While the industry has enjoyed steady growth over the years, it increasingly faces challenges — particularly in the form of rising labour costs, a shortage of skilled labour and slower outputs.

The benefits of stronger ties

Tung Yu has moved to explore a bigger international market through a new collaboration that enables it to deliver vastly improved machines performance. This forms the highlight of an exhibit at K 2013. Mr. Wang Wen Yi, Deputy Manager, provides International Plastics News for Asia (IRNA) an overview of its recent efforts.

PTC ASIA/CeMAT ASIA 2013

PTC ASIA, the world’s second largest trade fair for power transmission and control technology, offers obvious benefits for manufacturers

EXHIBITORS SHOWCASE

World premiere of cutting-edge technologies

Incredibly versatile, lightweight, safe, durable, economic and impressively energy-efficient – with their multitude of positive properties, polymers have become part of our daily lives. Plastics move our lives in more ways than one, both in the figurative and the literal sense.

Weighing up blood-thinners

Is warfarin always the best choice? New study guides clinicians and policy-makers on cost-effectiveness of anticoagulant drugs

Flame-retardant compounds for flexible cords

The demand for flame retardants has been on the rise even as requirements become more stringent. World demand for flame retardant additives is forecast to rise 5.4% annually to 2.6 million metric tonnes in 2016. The Asia Pacific region will continue to be largest and fastest growing market, accounting for over half of world demand in 2016, according to a study by Freedonia. Boron and phosphorus compounds are the fastest growing types, according to the report.

Tough films meet packaging challenges

The demand for high performance materials for packaging has always been a key factor in the research and development for new technologies. Flexibility and durability for films have become a primary concern.

RAMPF Giessharze at K 2013

Interview with Mr. Andreas Vesper, Sales Manager for Foam Gaskets

Pallmann at K 2013

Interview with Mr. Rolf Gren, Senior Executive Vice President, demonstrates the company’s latest grinding system, Karakal

Novel technique induces new human hair growth

Hair regeneration method is first to uses a patient’s own cells to grow new hair follicles, but more work needs to be done before the method can be tested in humans