FREE FORMER device

It is hard to say that Arburg German company has about 2500 employees in Germany and more than 500 people around the world in the form of over 50 active agents, including leaders in the plastics industry worldwide. With its innovations, the company has always made progress in this enormous industry and has always excelled in this regard.

One of the company’s innovations is the prototype device maker, the ARBURG Plastic Freeforming (APF), which redefines plastic injection operations. When designing a new piece of plastic, the only way to test for strength and to detect possible structural or physical defects was to produce a sample of the piece that required mold making and considerable use of raw materials to produce a healthy piece. And then take the necessary tests on it. In addition, the process took a long time. Hence, there was always a need for a device that produced parts without restriction in shape and to some extent in the form of basic designs with the same structural technical specifications. The ARBURG Plastic Freeforming (APF) was exactly what the plastics industry needed.

The ability to create parts by downloading files directly from 3D CAD, the ability to use granular material, the speed of prototype access, uniform structure, and a cost-effective shape are among the most important features of this device.

In this machine, standard granules are melted into standard materials in the same way as in standard injection molding machines, and are arranged in a point-to-point arrangement, which results in higher mechanical properties and greater strength of components. Also. It is also possible to create two-color or more complex geometric shapes.

One of the key features (APF) is that the same standard granule is used for injection molding. That means you can produce and evaluate a piece of a mass production line with the same properties and characteristics.

The freeformer system is equipped with a material preparation unit with a special cylinder and screw. The molding of the parts without molding is that a high-frequency nozzle discharges small plastic droplets using a very precise motion carrier. This allows for the layering of three-dimensional plastic parts, which also enables the production of multi-component products.

It has a function similar to 3D printers, but as you can see in the video above, the difference is that the parts are shaped by point-and-layer loading, which creates an injectable molded structure that produces Prototypes are of great importance.