KraussMaffei: Lightweight construction solutions for the building and automotive industries at JEC Connect

KraussMaffei has welcomed visitors with a comprehensive information package on lightweight technologies at JEC Connect, which this year has been organised as an online event on 1-2 June 2021. The focus was on innovations in all aspects of pultrusion and FiberForm technology. Particular attention was laid on sustainable processes and efficient CO₂-avoiding system solutions.

KraussMaffei’s Global Application Owner RPM & Automotive Philipp Strasser said that both composite processes - pultrusion and FiberForm technology - provide answers to the current demands for sustainable products and processes. In pultrusion technology, the KraussMaffei subsidiary Pultrex, with its comprehensive offer of process solutions and production aggregates, is a world market leader with over 300 machines installed. In addition, innovations for greater production output and optimized workplace protection, which have been developed at the KraussMaffei parent company, will be available to customers.

As spare caps in wind turbines, pultruded profiles help to sustainably secure the energy supply. (Source: Photo: Adobe Stock / akr11_st)

In the current sustainability debate, FiberForm is gaining increased attention in the composites sector for the production of structural components. "Here KraussMaffei scores with its comprehensive, long-term competence and with system solutions that combine injection molding machinery, preheating of organo sheets, and the automation, control and documentation of the complete process," said Michael Fuchs, Global Application Owner Surface & Lightweight. Also the CO₂ footprint of overall solutions is becoming increasingly important. Fuchs said: "We minimize the CO₂ footprint, for example by means of energy-saving KraussMaffei technologies such as the targeted preheating of preforms. Equally important are optimally coordinated process components as the basis for sustainably manufactured products."

At the virtual trade fair booth, visitors were able to meet real contact partners and information on all aspects of lightweight construction and composite technologies at KraussMaffei. In the presentation program, the company also provided information on Latest Composite Technologies for Lightweight Serial Production.

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