KPA Leipzig/Schkeuditz

The expertise of our engineers offers you comprehensive analysis and consultation which reflects the desired properties of your product. This reduces costs, avoids production errors and shortens your development time. Our development focus is on: >Requirements specification >Material selection >Draft >Simulation >Design >Mold-Flow

Our printing service combines years of experience with state-of-the-art technology. We offer flexible, high-quality printing solutions for everything from small print runs to large production series. Using digital printing, pad printing, screen printing, and other methods, we print plastic parts as well as round, cylindrical, or conical products precisely and in full color. Our in-house production of printheads allows for quick and cost-effective adjustments.

MKV develops and advises on disposal concepts for the handling of industrial plastic waste from injection moulders.

With its efficient network, DK Kunststoff-Service is not only a reliable partner and consultant for high-performance polymers. With 25 years of market knowledge in the field of high-quality plastics, DK also stands for the formulation and production of customer-specific compounds. The product range also includes thermoplastic elastomers and liquid silicone rubber (LSR) as well as additives.

We’re enabling circularity, transitioning from virgin fossil and lowering CO2e with the Dryflex Circular range of TPE and TPV materials with recycled content. Dryflex Circular TPE with PCR (Post Consumer Recyclate): TPE and TPV materials. The recyclate source includes recycled PP from end-of-life vehicles and household waste. Depending on requirements, grades are available containing up to 80% PCR content. Hardness ranging from 40 shore A to 60 Shore D. Natural, grey and black. Dryflex Circular TPE with PIR (Post Industrial Recyclate): TPE materials. Recyclate source includes hygienic and medical applications. Depending on requirements, grades are available containing up to 95% PIR content. Hardness ranging from 35 shore A to 65 Shore D. Natural, black and coloured. Dryflex Circular TPE with MWR (Maritime Waste Recyclate): The recyclate source for our MWR TPEs is post-use maritime ropes. These could previously have ended up in the ocean or on landfill. Depending on requirements, grades are available containing up to 40% MWR content. Hardness from 40 to 90 Shore A. Green, mint and black colours.

Dryflex Green is a family of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds containing raw materials from renewable resources such as plant and vegetable crops. So far we have developed several series with amounts of renewable content to over 90% (ASTM D 6866) with hardnesses from 15 Shore A to 60 Shore D. We’re part of a movement that’s re-thinking how we design, make, re-use and recycle plastic materials and products. As most conventional plastics are derived from oil, a diminishing resource, we’re offering a more sustainable approach. Dryflex Green TPEs are extremely versatile. With our compounding wizardry we can make them soft and grippy or silky-smooth, we can customise colour, flexibility and hardness.

Dryflex is a growing portfolio of Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) materials based on TPS, TPO, TPU and TPV technologies. They are used for consumer, construction, industrial, electrical and automotive applications.

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3D printing has undergone rapid development in recent years and now characterises numerous industries. To this end, the Thuringian company GRAFE, based in Blankenhain, is enriching the market with customer-specific colourings and expanding its standard range alongside the RAL K7 fan and customer-specific colour settings in all common thermoplastics in this area. Three new standard black variants have been added, which are among the most important materials in 3D printing and are suitable for numerous applications. “Our aim is to meet customer requirements even faster and to cover a wide range of customer requirements with the predefined range,” says Lars Schulze, Head of Colour Development and Material Sciences. “Our years of project work have shown that we not only need high-performance materials and excellent colour settings, but also fast and cost-efficient solutions,” the specialist continues. The Schwarz portfolio now includes three masterbatches with the carrier materials PETG and PLA. In addition to the classic PLA variant, an additional option is offered that meets the strict requirements with FDA approval for food contact. Established processes and a universal formulation, which does not require any customisation, enable cost-efficient production and rapid provision of standard batches. This allows a particularly competitive and attractive offer to be realised in the GRAFE range. “In contrast to classic UN substrates, we also want to give our customers who demand the highest quality the option of selecting a substrate that matches the print material. This eliminates compromises in terms of layer adhesion, warping or flow properties. We also offer our customers this service for our standard colour range,” says Schulze