How-to Guide Five Challenges in Injection Moulding Production

Plastic production by injection moulding faces special challenges. Customized technologies offer reliable solutions and help to increase the efficiency and safety of production processes. This paper names five challenges of the plastics industry where injection moulding machines are used in production processes and provides weighing and inspection solutions, which have a direct positive impact on product quality and production safety.

  • Foreign body contamination
  • Rising raw material prices
  • Air currents/draughts
  • Electrostatic forces
  • Temperature changes

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NO HALF MEASURES Full production quality and safety for the plastics industry

Safety and quality require full focus—no half measures: For around 150 years, Minebea Intec has been synonymous with producing the very best German quality industrial weighing and inspection technology solutions. We draw on our years of experience to continually develop innovative and user-friendly solutions to help our customers in the plastics industry address the specific challenges they face.

The products and solutions of Minebea Intec guarantee high-precision and reliable measurement results for plastics and rubber processing, whether you’re weighing products or detecting foreign bodies.

They therefore make an important contribution toward protecting your plant, optimising your product quality and increasing profitability.

We can assist you with the following:

  • reliable machine protection
  • ensuring product purity
  • integrity checking of individual and packaged products
  • classification and individual weight control of products
  • increasing product purity

If you refuse to accept half measures, make sure you opt for “the true measure”: Minebea Intec—safe, reliable, and efficient weighing and inspection solutions for the plastics industry.


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