Author : TAIWAN KINKI MACHINERY CO., LTD

K as one of the biggest Plastics and Rubber international exhibitions which is held every three years, kicked off from 19 to 26 October 2022. K has announced this year’s topics: Circular Economy, Digitalisation and Climate Protection, which are recent global hot topics which every industry is working hard on.

Injection molding process is a manufacturing process where molten material is injected into a mold. It requires an injection molding machine, raw materials and a mold. Plastics are one of the materials that are most used in making products that you can see and use every day such as bottle caps, automotive...

Reviewing the whole last year, the global economy was still deeply under COVID-19’s affections. Most countries were on lockdown for better control of the spread of COVID-19 hence caused a series of effects to all industries all over the world, especially international affairs which faced huge difficulties due to the limitations.

When wages are high and operators are hard to find, manufacturing owners naturally think about planning in the direction of reducing manpower and automating the process. However, in the process of pursuing automation, there are occasional cases of failure among TKC’s customers. Hereby, we sort out the factors and share the reflections of the owners of vertical injection machines before pursuing automation.

Faced with CHINAPLAS, which has been delayed for one year, Taiwan Kinki benefited from the establishment of factories in Dongguan and Ningbo on the mainland in 1991. It not only took over the Chinese market in the third quarter of last year, but also rebounded due to rapid response to the early termination of the supply chain phenomenon.