Arburg and Hasco Partnership Provides Turnkey Solutions

Arburg, a family-owned company based in Germany, is a machine manufacturer for plastics processing. The company’s product portfolio comprises Allrounder injection molding machines with clamping forces of between 125 and 6,500 kilonewtons, freeformers for industrial additive manufacturing (AM), robot systems and customer- and industry-specific turnkey solutions.

Arburg manufactures many components for its injection molding machines in-house. Its own moldmaking department, which initially produced all the molds itself, is now used predominantly for maintenance and repair work. Since the beginning, Arburg has used Hasco, a manufacturer of modular mold components and customized hot runner systems, as its supplier of standard mold components.

“In cooperation with Hasco, we equip the machines with complete, compactly integrated subassemblies consisting of tubes with standardized cooling connections. As a result, our customers can install their molds very quickly and easily, and thus minimize setup times,” says Manuel Witte, head of the Applications & Industries department at Arburg.

Arburg also equips injection moldings tools supplied as part of turnkey units with Hasco standard mold units as standard. Joint marketing teams from Arburg and Hasco can also advise the customers on the optimum subassemblies from a technical and economical point of view. According to Arburg, one in every three of its projects is a turnkey project.