Just back from the visiting of Saudi Industry Week which is the largest exhibition of the injection molding machinery and automation in Saudi Arabic, it's my first time of visiting Saudi Arabic and also my visit time of visiting Saudi Industry Week, about this amazing visiting, I'd like to share something about it and this hot and hospitable country.

Firstly I'd like to share what I saw in Saudi Arabic Industry Week, compare to Chinaplas or K-Show or EuroAsia in Turkey, Saudi Industry Week is a really small exhibition of injection machinery and industry with only injection molding machines of YIZUMI, BORCHE, Sound, HUARONG, SUNBUN, SONLY, this is the only injection machinery related exhibition which Haitian, the injection molding machine griant from China won't show up.

Potential: by talking the exhibitors of the plastic parts in Saudi Industry Week, we found that the entrepreneurs of Saudi Arabia is willing to spend money on the high quality machineries. Take the producer of IML containers as an examples, the IML robots running in their factory are mostly big names from the European countries like Brink, Back, Competella etc. And Competella is the only automation brand showed up at Saudi Industry Weeks. The solutions of these European Griant of IML means that IML container is a mature business as the package of Yogurt and other dairy products and has huge potential for Chinese IML solution providers.

Made in China: In Saudi Industry Week, we can find that about 90% of the exhibitors in the temporary halls (Halls 1A, 1B) are mold making companies and machinery manufacturers from China, it showed up the willingness of China machinery and facility manufacturers to explore the new opportunity outside China. It also showed up the confidence of Chinese machinery manufacturers to compete with the competitors of the European and other countries, not only a much better price, but a comparable quality and much better service.

Finally, as a conclusion of this article, I'd like to mention the food which we had in Saudi Arabia. Four days stay in Saudi Arabia with a large shopping mall near our hotel, I even don't know what's the traditional Saudi Food. There are big names of Hamburg like Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, SUBWAY and we even tried Yemen food, but it seems that we didn't see a restaurant of Saudi Arabia. And we had a terrible experience in a Chinese food restaurant, it's really unimaginable that Chinese cuisine will become so sweat after leave China. I'm here sincerely to invite you to have a visit of SWITEK Automation in DongGuan, where you'll know what would be the origional taste of the food, the true Chinese Cuisine.

PVC pipe fittings are one of the most commonly used connector in the drainage project and a cold runner designed mold is the most economic solutions for the production of the PVC pipe fittings, but the removal of the runner in result is a labour intensive work. Is there any economic way to remove the runners from the PVC pipe fittings automatically?

For the producer of PVC pipe fittings the most economic soluton to remove the runner is with an Air Nipper fixed to the picking robot immediately after the PVC pipe fittings picked out from the mould. The robot will drop the seperated pipe fittings and runner to different containers. Below configuration of SWITEK runner cutting solution for 16 cavities PVC pipe fittings for your reference:

• Injection Molding Machine: HaiTian MA4500
• Picking Robot: SWITEK SW6712S 3 Axis Servo Injection Robot
• Mold Design: 16 Cavities
• Air Nipper: 4pcs
• Cycle Time: 60s

The Air Nipper runner cutting system is an easy to start solution for the producers of PVC pipe fittings, which the Air Nipper would be controlled by the picking robot and is the best solution for the small size PVC pipe fittings (with a diameter around φ25mm). Anyway it also must be custom made according to the mold design.

For more solutions about the pipe fittings runner cuttings and other automation solutions please contact Adams from SWITEK, for a profound proposal of turn-key solutions of pipe fittings production.