Fakuma
Fakuma organisers have announced the addition of a new and exciting feature, a Thermoforming Island concept, which will showcase the thermoforming industry in a compact exhibition.
Taking place in the West Foyer of Messe Friedrichshafen, the Thermoforming Island aims to provide potential users of the technology with in-depth insights into the thermoforming process, highlighting the fact that modern thermoforming is now approaching accuracy levels once deemed impossible.
In addition to this exciting new feature, Fakuma 2015 will bring the first ever generative manufacturing segment to the international plastics processing event. Additive manufacturing technologies will be present in the tool and mould-making exhibitions, and in the wider manufacturing showcase.
Due to the fact tool and mould-making are essential constituent parts of the Fakuma line-up, industrial additive manufacturing is considered a complementary manufacturing process, allowing
users to produce complex shapes and to build sophisticated parts with cooling channels close to contour - geometries that would not have been possible without additive manufacturing technology.
New and alternative materials are now offering previously unknown substitution options in the production of prototype parts, in addition to short-series manufacturing using 3D printing, which in many cases can now do more than supplement injection moulding, thermoforming and extrusion processes.
Visitors to the event, which will take place this year from October 13th-17th from the new opening hours of 9am-5pm, will be able to view all of this together with a cross-section of the entire plastics processing supply chain on the shores of Lake Constance.
Floor space is already booked up for the major industry event, with even the West and East Entrance foyers snapped up. The East foyer will once again accommodate a popular and coveted exhibitor forum where numerous experts are already signed up to deliver presentations.
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