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What's Can We Lern About the New Trends of IML Technology from K-Show 2025?

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What's Can We Lern About the New Trends of IML Technology from K-Show 2025?

The worlds No.1 exhibition of Plastic & Rubber K-Show 2025 closed successuflly on Oct. 15, 2025 at Dusseldorf, Germany. The exhibition attracted 3,257 exhibitors from 66 countries and 175,000 visitors visitors from around the world? The leading IML Solutions providers on showed their cutting edge technology of IML and injection automation solutions to visitors from around the world. The IML solutions on show include small Yogurt cups by BMB eKW28Pi-1300 to 15L buckets of 2 cavities IML solution with uniformed handle injection by Tederic NEO-H1100. What's new will these amazing IML technology bring to the packaging industry and how far is the Chinese IML Solutions provider from their European competitors?

Faster & Thinner

We can find that nearlly all the IML cups for diary products on show K2025 are ultra thin-wall containers with thickness around 0.35mm with a perfect concentricity produced at an ultra fast injection speed. It represent a breakthrough in mold processing technology, high speed injection molding technology and a perfect control system for the IML system and the capacity to have them integrated as a uniformed system and working efficiently.

Have the Vision Control System Integrated as Part of the IML Robot

Not only the IML system for Yogurt cups production, we noticed that BRINK has the vision control system integerated in their solutions of 2 cavities 5L buckets with handle assembly. It'll not only release the staffs from the handle assembly job but also a full implentation of the TQC process to ensure the quality of the buckets produced.

Automatically Carton Loading

In K2025 we found that many IML solutions has the robotic arms carton auto-lading function includedd in their IML solution, which shows that UNTOUCHED production of the containers for the dairy products are a trend not only in China but aslo around the world for the upgraded hygeine standard for food package production.

Will rPET a Substitution to the Traditional PP IML Yogurt Cups?

In K-Show 2025, Pages cooperating with ENGEL on showed a 6+6 stack mold rPET IML solutions with vision control and have the cups picked and stacked by a Delta robot with auto-carton loading. With excellent transparency recyclability, the rPET is regarded an eco-friendly solutions for food package. With increased efficiency and reduced system cost in the future, will it be a replacement of the PP in the as the No. 1 material for dairy containers production?

How Far is the Chinese IML Solutions Provider from Their European Competitors?

As the sales man of SWITEK Automation, one of the leading providers of China since 2017, to be frankly I'd say that compared to our European competitors we're far behind them regarding the system efficiency especially the IML solutions with vision control and auto-packing for the bulk production of single products in bulk quantity but we're providing a more dynamic IML solutions which is more friendly to small and medium sized producers of IML containers with limited budgets. I think ideology behind the IML system design is based on two completely different culture and market. For European people they're enjoying a stable life but while in China, the Chinese especially the young are always pursuing something NEW so the dairy products producers are replacing the package design every season. So a FAST CHANGEABLE structure of the IML robot is the basic requirement of the IML system.


Hybrid Injection Molding Machine for Laboratory Consumable Petri Dish Injection Molding -- HD300KDY
Haida hybrid Injection Molding Machine
HD300KDY

HD300KDY -- HaiDa Hybrid Injection Molding Machine

No. Name Value
1 Clamping Force 3000 kN
2 Shot Weight 402 g
3 Shot Speed 350 mm/s
4 Screw Diameter 50 mm
5 Opening Stroke 550 mm
6 Space Between Tie Bars 590 x 590 mm
7 Mold Thickness (Min) 220 mm
8 Mold Thickness (Max) 600 mm
9 Pumper Motor 147 kW
10 Heating Capacity 21 kW

Injection Automation Application -- Side Entry Petri Dishs Injection Molding Automation Solution
petri dish packing solution

SIDE ENTRY PETRI DISH PACKING SOLUTION

Introduction of SWITEK Side Entry Petri Dish Packing System

The SWITEK side entry petri dish packing system is a custom made automation system for the stable production of laboratory consumable plastic petri dish with the picking robot, the petri dish assembly, stacking, packing unit etc. integrated as auniformed system for the efficient and stable production of the petri dish. The system can be custome made for a petri dish mold layout design of 2+2, 4+4, 6+6, 8+8 etc.

Functional Units of SWITEK Top Entry Petri Dish Packing System
petri dish packing solution
  • (1) -- Side Entry Robotic Arm: The picking arm of the packing system in handling the picking of the petri dish from the injection molding machine and place them on the assembly unit.
  • (2) -- Injection Mold: The core injection unit to shape the petri dish, it can be 2+2, 4+4, 6+6, 8+8 configuragion of the petri covers and bottoms.
  • (3) -- Petri Dish Assembly Unit: Have the cover and bottom of the petri dish assembled and drop it on the conveyor.
  • (4) -- Sorting Conveyor: Lined the assembled petri dish sets for stacking before packing.
  • (5) -- Stacking Station: Have the well assembled petri dishes stacked up as requested (5/10/15/20/25 sets etc.).
  • (6) -- Petri Dish Packing Unit: Have the well stacked petri dish packed and sealed with optional function of vacuume the bag.
  • (7) -- Petri Dish Transfer Robot: Catch the well sealed petri dish bag and drop it to the conveyor.
  • (8) -- Petri Dish Dropping Conveyor: Deliver the well packed petri dish.
  • (9) -- Injection Molding Machine: The injection unit of the whole syste.

Installation Dimension of SWITEK Side Entry Petri Dish Packing System
petri dish packing solution

Productivity of SWITEK Side Entry Petri Dish Packing Solutions
    Vacuumed Sleeve Packing
  • 10 Sets/Bag --Injection Cycle time: 9s
  • 20 Sets/Bag --Injection cycle: 6s
  • 25 Sets/Bag --Injection Cycle: 5.5s
    Non-vacuumed Sleeve Packing
  • 10 Sets/Bag --Injection Cycle time: 6.5s
  • 20 Sets/Bag --Injection cycle: 6s
  • 25 Sets/Bag --Injection Cycle: 5.5s

Mold Layout Design & Sleeve Size for the Petri Dish Packing System
petri dish packing solution

Mold Layout Deisgn

petri dish packing solution

Sleeve Size for Package with Vacuum Request

petri dish packing solution

Sleeve Size for Package without Vacuum Request

petri dish packing solution

Sleeve (With Mark) Size for Package with Vacuum Request

petri dish packing solution

Sleeve (With Mark) Size for Package without Vacuum Request

I think you'll have an overall understanding about the SWITEK top/side entry petri dish packing system. If you still have any other question about it or need any help in your petri dish production project, please feel free to contact SWITEK laboratory consumable plastic parts injection molding solutions team for more information.


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