The Ceramicx team (right) and Freek team (left) on their joint stand together at the K 2010 plastics exhibition in Dusseldorf this Autumn
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx enjoyed its best ever K plastics exhibition in Dusseldorf earlier this month.
Over three hundred enquiries were received from all corners of the global plastics market; the company’s new magazine Heat Works sold out from the stand before the end of the show and the Ceramicx infrared heat testing rig for plastics saw plenty of action throughout the eight days of the triennial show.
The bulk of enquiries for Ceramicx products and services were related to the company’s infrared heating technology for the thermoforming of plastics. Ceramicx founder and director Frank Wilson says that ‘it’s still early days, but the international plastics thermoforming community appears to be waking up to the news that energy-per-part produced will be a defining benchmark for manufacturing and consumers from now on. Tomorrow’s heating systems will need to become measurably more efficient and deliver on that score. We at Ceramicx are doing our part by producing the most efficient infrared heating elements and systems available.’
The K plastics show attracted 220,000 visitors – a figure that was 10% up on the numbers expected by the Dusseldorf show organisers. The Ceramicx exhibition experience reflected general global trends in the industry: ‘The internationalisation of plastics manufacturing continues to grow,’ says Wilson. ‘We received increased interest from Far Eastern manufacturing – China and Korea in particular and India currently is clearly a growing force in global manufacturing. The German economy also continues to recover strongly from the credit crunch.’
Ceramicx also received a good spread of applications engineering enquiries for infrared know-how; products and expertise. ‘The manufacturing world still has far to go in its understanding and application of infrared heating,’ says Wilson, ‘but we were very pleasantly surprised at the numbers of innovators – high-end research and development and mass production – that had discussion time with us at the K show. We hope to share news of plenty of new infrared projects in the course of the coming months.’
Machinecraft a good quality family owned Indian Thermoforming Machine producer has been a valued customer of Ceramicx for over twenty years. At K 2010 Machinecraft was very interested to hear about the Ceramicx energy-content-per-part ideas. Machinecraft will now begin to examine the possibility of taking up this energy monitoring approach in the manufacture of their own equipment.
Ureatac Co Ltd a leading thermoforming machinery producer from South Korea was located in a stand close by to Ceramicx and partner Freek. Uretac has been a prime customer of Ceramicx in recent years. Uretac focus mainly on the production of a quartz-based thermoforming machine and again were very receptive to the idea of energy-content-per-part being measured on their machines.
Ceramicx received many good applications engineering enquiries at the K exhibition from companies around the world with significant interest received from India and Germany. Project ideas ranged from industries as diverse as energy conservation, energy production, plastics, food, steel, textiles and many other sectors.
The K exhibition confirmed and supported the Ceramicx ideas and plans for energy-content-per-part being measured on thermoforming machines. Ceramicx’s Frank Wilson believes that this energy monitoring benchmark is shortly set to separate the quality machine producer from the poor-quality producer – ‘and also the quality infrared heater manufacturer from the poor quality infrared heater manufacturer. In our view that day can’t come soon enough.
All further details from Frank Wilson, Ceramicx Managing Director.
www.ceramicx.com Tel. +353 2837510 Fax + 353 2837509Â Â Â frank@ceramicx.com
