WEB EXCLUSIVE The largest injection press made to date by Engel in Austria (U.S. office in York, Pa.) is molding 6500-liter HDPE underground tanks at Otto Graf in Teningen, Germany, and is doing it with extremely low energy consumption.
The largest injection press made to date by Engel in Austria (U.S. office in York, Pa.) is molding 6500-liter HDPE underground tanks at Otto Graf in Teningen, Germany, and is doing it with extremely low energy consumption. The tank is molded in two half-shells on a Engel duo 5500-metric-ton (6050 U.S. ton), two-platen press equipped with three parallel injection units capable of a total shot weight of 308 lb. Engel says energy consumption in production is just 0.34 kwh/hr.
