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(PlasticsToday) -- Toshiba
Machine Co. (Tokyo) views production cells and system-based solutions as the way
ahead amid an increasingly competitive market for injection molding machines.
"The number of machines we ship is declining while simultaneously, more of our
customers are asking for complete systems," explains Hideo Tanaka, a Toshiba
advisor.
Toshiba's approach is to employ its injection machines mated with the
best available peripheral equipment, no matter where these may emerge from
globally. One such system solution on show at IPF was the 180-tonne EC180S-6A
demonstrating molding of PP tubs with in-mold labels in a 5.3 second cycle using
a two-cavity mold. The 20-g shot weight tubs were 0.5-mm thick. Toshiba tied up
with Israeli company Imdecol (Rosh Ha'ain) to develop the system.
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