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[February 2007]
Lippert Gains Further Success for Cup Casting Plant
Lippert GmbH (Pressath, Germany) has delivered ten of its TDG/500 series cup pressure casting machines to various tableware manufacturers so far. All machines are working at full capacity, some of them round the clock.The design of these successful machines for making cups with handles in one piece is simplicity and compactness itself, thanks also to the use of servo-controlled axes instead of hydraulics. They can also be easily upgraded to fully automatic complete lines:
The pressure-cast cups are automatically demoulded and handed over to a solidifying dryer. Subsequent fully automatic finishing is attended to by six-axis robots and specially developed finishing tools. These all-in solutions have also proven their value under rough everyday conditions. For the production of pressure casting moulds, Lippert offers holistic tooling set-ups including engineering drawings; individual tools and/or mould components; or all-in tooling.
The advantages of this innovation are:
· New freedom of design, i.e. non-axisymmetrical cup bodies are now achievable, opening up whole new design worlds never before thought possible. · High precision even for complicated shapes. · Cups with handles are made in a single cast: forgotten are the earlier difficulties of attaching the handles to the bodies. · Fully automated solutions - from pressure-casting process all the way to firingThis groundbreaking technology, says the company, will open whole new vistas in cup design and production to the discriminating tableware manufacturer.
By the way of a footnote, Lippert adds that even the manufacture of 'regular' cups is now being converted from pressure-rolling to pressure-casting.
www.lippert.de
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