By Ron Shinn
Kautex Maschinenbau System GmbH added an all-electric line at K 2025 to the KEB machine series it relaunched last summer. Both single-station lines are designed for medium-output production.
The KEB Green line follows the fully hydraulic KEB Grey line. Both series come in three sizes, 13.5 tons, 27 tons and 42 tons of clamping force, and from one to six cavities. Both series are designed for a variety of products, including containers such as bottles to jerrycans up to 20 liters and technical parts such as air ducts or bellows.
The company said the all-electric Green line uses significantly less energy than the Grey machines.
Kautex said the KEB series provides maximum flexibility. It features in-line clamping, fast mold changes and integrated deflashing, post cooling and push-contact takeout. A swiveling extruder platform facilitates quick die-head replacements and startups.
The KEB10 Green, the smallest of the line, has a clamping platen of 470mm by 500mm and one to five cavities. The KEB30 Green, the largest, has a clamping platen of 610mm to 700mm and can have up to two cavities. The KEB20 Green, the middle size in terms of clamping force, has a clamping platen that is 590mm by 600mm and goes up to six cavities.
Dry cycle times are 2.1 seconds for the KEB10, 3 seconds for the KEB20 and 3.9 seconds for the KEB30.
A wide range of options is available for the KEB Green line, including a remote access gateway, integration of downstream equipment, flexible blow station configuration, additional cooling stations, proportional blowing air control, versatile head configurations, advanced wall thickness control, oriented article takeout and wide-neck rotary cutter.
The BC6 control system includes a 24-inch widescreen panel.
At the K show, a KEB20 Green produced a three-layer, 5-liter jerrycan that weighed 240 grams and had an average wall thickness of 1.24mm. Kautex said the KEB line can easily accommodate post-industrial and post-consumer resin.
Contact:
Kautex Machines Inc., Flemington, N.J., 908-512-7664, www.kautex-group.com
