WITTMANN BATTENFELD's machines produce toys with accurate details

BRUDER works to ensure high quality and accurate details for the toys. For example, real appliances and vehicles of world-famous brands are reproduced as toy models on a scale of 1:16.

They are mostly assembled without auxiliaries such as screws or adhesives. Only the wheels are pressed onto the vehicle axes by metal rods. Otherwise, only plug-in connections are used.

The sturdy wheels of the vehicles are produced partly from TPE by way of 2K injection molding, which makes it possible to achieve the desired similarity to the original. At the same time, this enhances the play value, since the wheels make considerably less noise when played with than hard plastic tires.

BRUDER uses a great variety of different technologies to make its plastic toys, such as the internal gas pressure process, which offers the advantages of reducing the toys’ weight and saving material input as well.

It also makes use of multi-component technology right up to 5-component injection molding. This enables the production of parts consisting of several different materials and/or in several colors by a single injection molding process.

BRUDER’s most important criteria for injection molding machines are high precision, reliability, stability, energy efficiency and a small footprint.

The positive experience of BRUDER with WITTMANN in the area of robots and handling systems, in which the two companies have already been cooperating for more than 20 years, prompted BRUDER to install a first injection molding machine from WITTMANN’s servo-hydraulic SmartPower series in 2020.

Five more have been added in 2022. Of the six machines, with clamping forces ranging from 600 to 1,600 kN, two are equipped with a WS80 servo picker from WITTMANN, and a SmartPower 60 was delivered as an Insider cell with a WITTMANN Primus 14 robot.

In addition to the robot, a conveyor belt and the protective housing are also integrated in the cell, which makes the entire system extremely compact. Moreover, one of the machines is fitted with a hot embossing system.