MADE IN ITALY
Wilma De Vries - Roescher
Sales and Service bij BMB Spa - 0031-683440289
BMB to conquer the medical sector
The Brescia-based manufacturer of injection molding machines has been studying and manufacturing full-electric molding islands optimized for fast molding in sterile conditions for twenty years. Also turnkey, as in a recent project nearing completion.
The medical sector has always been very close to the philosophy of BMB machines. According to the natural needs of the production of medical items, which perfectly match the full electric drive, the Brescia-based manufacturer has been operating in this sector since the early 2000s. Entry favored by the presence in Italy - and in particular in Emilia Romagna - of a important industrial chain, which makes our country one of the main producers of medical items and, at the same time, a destination for investments by multinational companies in the sector.
TURNKEY SYSTEMS.
BMB presses have been adopted over the years for the production of filters for dialysis, transfusions and, more generally, for components related to blood treatment. In recent months, the company is carrying out a turnkey project for the production of 3, 5 and 10 ml syringes, with responsibility - not only for the press - but for achieving the global objective concerning quality and efficiency of the entire production system.
BMB is in fact working on the construction, starting from scratch, of a production facility for syringes intended to meet the demand of a country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project involves the turnkey supply of the production department in the clean room, including feeding the granule and evacuation of the finished product, ready to be assembled automatically.
10 multi-cavity molds (from 32 to 144 cavities) from Swiss and German suppliers are about to arrive in the Brescia plants of the group, which will be installed on 10 full electric presses for the molding tests and final acceptance. For this purpose, a new showroom was set up with all the machines running in layout conditions comparable to the reality that will be outlined later in Africa.
SET UP FOR THE MEDICAL.
The order concerns 10 injection molding machines with fully electric drive by means of direct motors and recirculating screws of satellite rollers, toggle closure with force of 160, 200 and 350 tons. "The performance of the full electric BMBs will allow the customer to increase productivity as a function of the reduction of cycle times and the great reliability of the product with very low MTBF values", explains the company.
The parallelism between the shelves and the central thrust of the toggle play a fundamental role in ensuring the correct functioning of the molds, also reducing maintenance interventions. "We point out that we are talking about finely worked steel blocks weighing over 2,500 kg, with very sophisticated internal movements, electrical and hydraulic circuits, which make these molds real jewels of high technology", underlines BMB.
The presses do not have any particular features compared to the standard of the "full electric" series, apart from the planes guided on important prismatic guides with recirculating ball slides and automatic lubrication with "food-grade" liquid. multiple platen guiding organs - they are lubrication-free in compliance with the requirements of medical applications. Similarly, the molded parts never come into contact with oils, painted or aluminum parts and from the mold are conveyed directly to the transport system (down -stream), designed with the necessary precautions to operate in a 100,000 clean room.
POWER AND END OF LINE.
The raw material starts from the warehouse and reaches the molding department through stainless steel pipes that descend vertically into the clean room in defined positions and at a constant pitch, adjacent to each of the 10 presses, together with all the other utilities necessary for production. The approach is Industry 4.0, with the presses that can communicate with each other, with the connected auxiliary equipment, with the central server and with the outside world, including the BMB remote assistance service.
Once the cycle is completed, a cascade conveyor belt system facilitates the evacuation of the pieces in a second clean room for temporary storage, with automatic identification and elimination of unsuitable molds, production start-up and sample quality control requests. The molds can be equipped with from 32 to 144 cavities, depending on the component and its size, while the injection units range from 480 to 1300 euromap, with maximum injection capacity from 143 to 383 g of PP.
The final components sometimes require the molding of small parts with very thin walls and, for this reason, the specific pressure per square centimeter never drops below 2,000 kg. Thanks to the CNC control, which the BMB electric presses are equipped with, it is always possible to control the entire production process step by step, ensuring constant weight and quality standards for the product of each single cavity. The molding cycles range from 5 to 8 s depending on the component.
COMPLETE SERVICE.
"Thanks to the experience and investments also at the level of new and increasingly qualified technical personnel, we are now able to propose ourselves as the ideal partner for 'turn-key' solutions anywhere in the world - says BMB -. On this particular occasion we have accepted the challenge, now in the pipeline with results that we really see beyond expectations, in order to guarantee the customer the necessary 'customer satisfaction', which could not be limited to press quality alone, but had to arrive at the finished product, which inevitably sees involved a more complex process of responsibility ". "In these projects - concludes the Brescia-based company - it is essential to set up a team of expert suppliers with whom to carry out the work according to rigid schemes defined together from the initial phase; BMB's close collaboration with its partners is based on mutual trust and common innate predisposition to innovation. For us this means exporting Made in Italy ".
With the contribution of:
BMB
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25125 Brescia - Italy
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Owner - Plastix Engineering
3 年A natural progression for a GREAT company that I have the privilege of representing here in South Africa ???? .