Live demo: Arburg's compact Cube to produce two-component caps at K 2025
At K 2025, Arburg will present the Allrounder Cube 1800 with a live demonstration of producing two-component caps for personal care sector.
Arburg’s Allrounder Cube 1800.
The Allrounder Cube 1800 with a clamping force of 1,800 kN and a column distance of 570 x 570 mm has a very compact design. The cube machine is particularly suitable for the production of technical molded parts, medical technology products and applications for the personal care sector.
The exhibit will be equipped with a size 400 horizontal injection unit and a size 170 travelling injection unit. A 4+4-cavity demo mold from Foboha is used to produce two-color PP caps in a cycle time of around nine seconds.
4+4-cavity demo mould from Foboha. All four sides of the cube can be used simultaneously for production steps.
The Compact Cube is easily accessible from above for installation, removal and maintenance work.
The cube is rotated servo-electrically, while mechanical gear racks perform the horizontal movement. Four frames are injection molded at station 1. After a 90-degree rotation to the passive side of the cube, the pre-molded parts cool down at station 2. After another rotation, the second component is molded at station 3. Finally, at station 4 - also cycle time-neutral - the finished parts are removed automatically and are deposited on a conveyor belt by an inversely mounted Agilus six-axis robotn.
Arburg's cube machines are available with clamping forces of 1,800, 2,900 and 4,600 kN. Injection molding in two parting lines arranged one behind the other as well as cooling and removal all take place simultaneously. The use of the passive sides of the cube alone significantly reduces cooling times.
With the same clamping area, a cube machine provides twice the number of cavities. Depending on the circumstances, an Allrounder Cube can replace several conventional injection molding machines, thereby reducing the space required by up to 75%.
