Dear Sir or Madam, „While the material metal, taking steel here as a prime example, is being associated with a strong character, steady and static, and glass is symbolizing easiness, beauty but fragility as well, caoutchouc (…)...[more]
Are you a member of the DKG – "The German Rubber Society"? If „yes“: many thanks for backing the central network of rubber experts in Germany. If „no“, then the management of Klöckner Desma and the DKG board would like to invite...[more]
DESMA USA, Inc. hosted an Open House with a speaker workshop on Wednesday October 10th. Their facility located in Hebron, KY hosted over 120 visitors for the event![more]
India Rubber Expo 2013 was held in Mumbai from 22nd to 24th of Jan 2013. This exhibition has developed into an international platform dedicated for Rubber Industry mainly for India and Southeast Asia[more]
Of this show having taken place from 29 January through 1 February we will keep very good memories in the light of the strong visitor turnout and the quality of discussions. [more]
DESMA recently celebrated the 33rd year anniversary of Mr. Sieu Ly – a DESMA USA Service Technician. Sieu Ly will now work part time with DESMA while enjoying his family and grandchildren in Walnut California. Scott Early...[more]
After having started my vocational training as a toolmaker at the company Klöckner DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH in September 2006, I completed it successfully in February 2010.[more]
Dear Reader, when reading the most recent news from European industry associations and economists we are recognizing an optimistic and positive trend as compared to the situation as it was weeks before![more]
A spectacular guest stopped at Salzgitter end of July: on its roadshow with 72 stops in eight European countries, DESMA visited the headquarters of its parent company, the Salzgitter AG, with its special truck. [more]
It was a great pleasure for DESMA having won another Product Award of the German Rubber Society (DKG) on the occasion of the last DKT (German Rubber Conference) in Nuremberg in July. The system ZeroWaste ITM already presented at...[more]
The perfect triad: Product Award – many visitors – nice business. Is there much left to be desired for a show and conference? [more]
Apart from the booth, DESMA, along with its Polish agency DEREI, was also represented in Kielce with a showtruck which stopped at the PLASTPOL fairgrounds from 29 May-1 June 2012.[more]
Functionalization of injection-moulded LSR parts – The current research on a DESMA SEALMASTER 969.300 Z (S3) at the IKV (Institute of Plastics Processing)[more]
We would not have expected that our brand sharpening process would involve such effects![more]
With a fully functional injection moulding machine of the new S3 generation DESMA is currently on big tour[more]
When Martin Schürmann first surprised us with the ‚boss's idea‘, the roadshow, in January, we thought what a crazy thing: a reverence to as many employees in rubber industry as possible, who seldom or never are at the supplier's...[more]
Our brand sharpening for a targeted communication with our clients. Over the past few weeks we have conducted a brand sharpening process in our company. Goal is the adaptation and adjustment or our complete communication strategy...[more]
New S3 machines optimally suited for 2-deck production with central cold runner system. To lower Production costs through 2-deck article production. A 2-deck production is feasible on both horizontal and vertical machines by way...[more]
DESMA USA, Inc. will be holding an Open House on October 8th -12th. The 2012 Rubber Expo will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Duke Energy Convention Center from October 9th - 11th. [more]
Impressions from our regional trade fairs successfully conducted over the past few weeks [more]
After more than 40 years in this branch of industry and around 21 years at DESMA, time has come for me to thank you for the long-standing and good cooperation. [more]
Effective April 1, 2012, Dr. Harald Zebedin takes on the management of the sectors technology, production, research and development at Klöckner Desma Elastomertechnik in Fridingen, Germany. [more]
Martin Schürmann described the encounter with Jürgen Bertram this way: „Apart from many impressions and opportunities of networking on the occasion of the German-Chinese economic conference, listening to the speech of Jürgen...[more]
They are less sexy than design elements made of thermoplastic and thermosetting plastics, but without them nothing is running at all. Elastomers: elastic, dimensionally stable, extremely resistant to aging, temperature, pressure...[more]
The BENCHMARK series has been DESMA’s most important series since its market introduction at the K 2001. The BENCHMARK clamping system created new standards when it was introduced 9 years ago - and it still represents the best in...[more]
Following my bachelor's degree in International Business Economics at the University of Maastricht, I was keen on gaining practical experiences and discovering how the theoretical knowledge can be applied in profession, before...[more]
Everybody is talking about the demographic transition which calls for farsightedness and prudence in shaping the vocational education. DESMA has long identified the challenges which the demographic transition and the involved...[more]
The Interplastica exhibition was a very successful event for DESMA. From 24-27 January the industry met in the Expocenter with the majority of the visitors coming from Russia and the former CIS countries. For many years, DESMA...[more]
The BENCHMARK S3 machine series has now celebrated its first-time showing in India. Our subsidiary DESMA India launched the latest SIGMA S3 series machine at Plastindia 2012. [more]
„From receiving the emergency call until arriving at DESMA it took us barely 12 minutes“, said the pilot of the rescue helicopter Christoph 11 stationed in the city of Villingen-Schwenningen located approx. 50 km away, who...[more]
An eventful, demanding but quite successful year is drawing to an end for DESMA as well. Our review of 2011 is supposed to have a look back at the most essential things which happened at DESMA apart from the variety of...[more]
On 12th October five workshops on current industry and DESMA issues were offered in the town hall of Tuttlingen besides an impressive lecture program. In addition, the market place of partners informed about important news...[more]
For one exciting hour over 300 international guests could listen to the speech of the former UN environmental director Klaus Töpfer. Knowledgeable the 73-year-old professor spoke at the 7th DESMA Open House on the 12th of October...[more]
Valuable suggestions have been provided to 300 international listeners by Dr. Fritz Buschhaus with his lecture about energy management at the 7th DESMA Open House in the town hall of Tuttlingen on 12 October. According to him,...[more]
With an impassioned speech for more optimism in business and society, DESMA- CEO Martin Schürmann started the 7th Desma Open House. In the town hall of Tuttlingen the market leader for injection machines welcomed 300...[more]
Parallel to the DESMA Open House, the Rubber Expo 2011 took place in Cleveland/Ohio on October 11-13th. This year over 6,000 attendees from 26 countries attended the fair.[more]
On our website for the Open House 2011 we have already given you a short overview about our keynote speaker’s resume, Professor Dr. Klaus Töpfer. As part of this eNewsletter issue we would like to dwell on his recent...[more]
Five new DESMA injection moulding machines at once and a new production hall were ceremonially commissioned on the occasion of the 80th anniversary.[more]
In 2010, global plastic injection moulding industry bottomed out and presented rapid growth. Sales of plastic injection moulding machine exceeded RMB 20 billion in China and consistently ranked the first place in the world.[more]
Reports by various apprentices.[more]
DESMA offered an operational health and fitness day to its employees.[more]
Since the machine cycle in the elastomer injection moulding process is still varying very much from the one of thermoplastic processing, further developments can be transferred to elastomer processing to a certain extent only.[more]
On 20 May 2011 the company Z-form – mould shop and application technology located in Budapest – which has been dealing with the commercial and service activities of DESMA in the Hungarian market since end of 2010, opened its...[more]
In May 2011 DESMA surrendered a new LSR injection moulding machine to the Institute of Plastics Processing - the IKV - in Aachen. [more]
In the week of 24 to 27 May 2011 the 15th issue of the successful PLASTPOL fair in Kielce in Poland took place.[more]
On 29 July 2011 around 1 pm all employees together with their families and friends were invited to enjoy family fun at the Fridingen facility. [more]
From 24 through 27 May 2011 one of the most important fairs for plastics and rubber processing in the European area opens its gates for the fifteenth time in Kielce in Poland.[more]
The diagnosis tool TeamViewer which has already been used successfully with the control system generations DRC 1210 and 2010 is of course also available with the new visualization DRC 2020 HT.[more]
This conference had been organized by Mr. Karlheinz Baumgärtel, engineer at the SKZ Würzburg, and was chaired by Dr. Udo Wachter of the company Wacker in Burghausen.[more]
Service is deciding - before and after a sale. Especially nowadays the service performance of a company is of vital and vast importance.[more]
ActiveFeed is an option of the new FIFO-Advanced injection unit of DESMA. Here an additional cylindrical roller which is arranged parallel to the plasticizing screw changes the feeding behavior essentially.[more]
Injection molding machines for elastomers consume energy in different ways. Usually, this takes place through electrical current (there are exceptions when it comes to cooling). The main consumers are driving system, heating and...[more]
Moulds for elastomer injection moulding machines need to be changed at regular intervals. This process partly takes 30 to 60 minutes especially in case of big moulds in vertical clamping units and partly several hours in case of...[more]
Following the Interplastica fair which took place in Moscow from 25 through 28 January, 2011 this can be clearly answered with "yes and no"![more]
The fortress Marienberg in Würzburg was the venue for the experts interested in the topic "injection moulding of elastomers" on 1 December, 2010. Lecturers from the fields of elastomer processing, machine and mould building as...[more]
Operating a DESMA injection moulding machine should be fun and thus contribute to motivation and increase of efficiency. [more]
For many years DESMA has been the globally leading manufacturer of special machines for the production of pump stators. Especially for larger stators, machines without clamping unit are used. Up to a length of 10 m, pump stators...[more]
The Rubber Expo 2011 which took place in Chennai/India in January has perfectly confirmed the situation of the greatly growing local rubber industry in India.[more]
705 years of tenure - this gave not less than 35 employees occasion to celebrate their job anniversaries together with the works council and management representatives on 7 December 2010.[more]
In the labour market there is a greater demand than ever before for additional, high-grade qualifications – just one vocational education is no longer sufficient nowadays. [more]
Looking back on the year 2010, the past 12 months were again marked by an exciting change full of contrasts which in turn we were able to shape with the required room for entrepreneurial manoeuvre at our five locations thanks to...[more]
The K 2010 is definitely over, but the memory of the numerous personal encounters and interesting discussions lives on.[more]
The Rubber Mini Expo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a great success for the team around the new Regional Sales Engineer Marc Vonderlage. DESMA USA showcased there the new machine generation BENCHMARK S3, displayed cold runner...[more]
Since 1 December DESMA is also well-positioned in Hungary. The agency was taken over by Boldizsár Zakariás who is known as reliable and customer-focussed entrepreneur on account of his work with Z-Form[more]
DESMA has chosen the K 2010 to present a newly designed vertical machine. An impressive bundle of new technical features is being showcased on the DESMA stand, F56 in hall 16, like ServoGear, ActiveFeed, PlastControl and...[more]
CAS, NELA and DESMA are debuting at the K fair 2010 as technology partners. Together. Forward- looking. Integrative. The objective of our joint efforts is to continue to offer our customers increasing added value.[more]
The last 10 years have seen automatic inspection systems based on image processing become indispensable instruments in quality assurance. This having been said, the surface-based detection of elastomers is one of the most...[more]
The production of rubber moulded components using injection moulding techniques represents a complex challenge for manufacturers. The clients, for example the car industry, expect to receive parts with highly consistent quality...[more]
Having faster set-up times helps increase machine availability. And that means the machine can produce more in the same time. This equation only works if no unnecessary time is wasted when changing moulds. DESMA offers a range of...[more]
The injection moulding of elastomers demands the complex interaction of various processes, machines and materials. Since the 1970s, the technology of injection moulding has undergone steady further development and improvement....[more]
With an impressive package of new technical features DESMA is going to present itself at the K 2010 in Dusseldorf in hall 16, booth 56 from 27 October to 3 November 2010.[more]
Pushing together new projects and capitalizing on the present chances in the rubber and silicone industry![more]
Varied lectures are offered in the symposium "Injection moulding of elastomers". On December 1, 2010 guests from most different industries are reporting on this subject.[more]
In order to delight qualified and committed future trainees, an education fair is the ideal starting point.[more]
Effective as of 1 September 2010 an alternation of generations took place at our Italian agency. Mr Sergio Lunari assumed the DESMA representation from his uncle Dr. Franco Lunari.[more]
The Bold & Modest campaign accompanied DESMA during the challenging time of the financial and economic crisis. Under the new campaign motto Fit & Fair DESMA wants to face the changed market conditions and the structural change in...[more]
Whoever wants to offer superior product quality to his customers needs machines which meet highest requirements.[more]
DESMA recorded a success on the occasion of the Plastpol 2010: orders, customer projects and a wide interest in the VARIO cold runner technology give new growth impulses.[more]
Over the past few months the DESMA training center has obtained great attention on the part of attendees, companies and from the AZWV (decree of the German government regarding admission and certification of advanced training...[more]
Is the fuel cell a technology for the future? Judging by the amount of research funds and the forecasts of the automotive industry: yes.[more]
To use existing plants more efficiently and to realize new acquisitions with maximum productivity and with minimum resource consumption - these goals have today come to the fore for many rubber processors.[more]
New materials and production methods in the field of silicones were two of the main topics of the 'Conference for Energy Transmission & Distribution'.[more]
For seven years James Wood has been contributing to the success of DESMA in the USA. And this with full commitment, not only with DESMA.[more]
The elastomer injection moulding machine D 968.1000 ZO B-900 of DESMA combines ease of operation with versatility and high productivity.[more]
Following the inspection of the quality management system (QM system) by two auditors in January, DESMA obtained again the certificate according to ISO 9001:2008.[more]
DESMA presented itself at the Expobor in the booming market environments of Brazil.[more]
Being employed with one and the same company over many years is no longer a matter of course nowadays. All the more, DESMA was pleased about many employees celebrating work anniversaries last year.[more]
The increasing demand for maximal production consolidation with flexible availability of machine capacity at the same time was fully borne in mind while developing the DESMA 968.100 ZOE.[more]
'Ni Hao China!'. Thus Jana Kunz could greet her temporary new home. For four weeks she took the opportunity to get to know the Chinese subsidiary of DESMA, its organization, the products and processes.[more]
The offer preparation in different spreadsheet and word processing programs is a thing of the past in the DESMA sales department.[more]
Staff qualification gains more and more importance. For this reason DESMA offered in addition to the extensive measures regarding the Continuous Improvement Process also targeted qualification measures.[more]
Cautious optimism due to a keen interest in the productivity and efficiency of the DESMA injection moulding technology in the Russian market.[more]
Many people consider China to be the engine for the recovery of the global economy. With 13.7 million automobiles built in 2009 and expecting a definite jump of 10 %, China might actually become the hub of the future economic...[more]
Indian automotive parts producers are faced with growing quality demands. DESMA could successfully implement a turnkey package consisting of machines, moulds, process development and training for Techno Auto.[more]
Matthias Schwanz has entered the profession of a tool technician at DESMA and was awarded a prize as the best graduate of his year.[more]
Dr. Frank Schmuck of Pfisterer Sefag, an internationally leading manufacturer of network components in the field of low and medium voltage, about the import of the dialogue in times of economic crisis and the joint responsibility...[more]
DESMA emphasizes with the just delivered, first 32-nozzle FlowControl cold runner its mould-making competence. Due to now possible material savings in article production, the investment into this system will be paid off for the...[more]
DESMA invests in the USA in a new DMU 100 Monoblock 5-axis milling machine from Deckel Maho which is taking up work as of March 2010. [more]
DESMA enhances its offers of partnership for the rubber industry. [more]