Injection press maker Arburg GmbH + Co. KG of Lossburg, Germany, presented an Allrounder 275 V vertical machine for the first time outside Germany at Chinaplas. The second vertical machine after the Allrounder 175 V in the current Arburg portfolio, the exhibited press featured a size 70 injection unit and 250 metric tons of clamping force. It was making bottle openers at the show with inserted metal body and polypropylene. The shot weight for a single mold was 6.4 grams and the cycle was 18 seconds.
The V series are developed for the encapsulation of inserts and equipped with fixed vertical, down-stroking clamping units. The V models comprise the Allrounder 175 V with a clamping force of 125 metric tons, and the Allrounder 275 V with a clamping force of 250 metric tons.