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.

For PVC/PPR pipe fittings with nuts with a diameter of around φ25mm most of the producer will choose an injection molding machine of around 250T and a mold cavities of 8 Cavities, will a more cavities mold design with a larger injection molding machine a better choice for pipe fittings producers?

According to the experience of working with LESSO group in the automiztion of their PVC/PPR pipe fittings injection production system, we finally decide to have an 8 cavities mold deisgn with 250T injection molding machine because:

• A 250T injection molding machine with 8 cavities mold design is an economic investment to start up a pipe fittings injection production system.
• For a pipe fittings auto-injection production system with nut insertion, the weight of the EOAT would be very heavy. An eight cavities solution will perfectly balance the payload of the injection robot and weight of the EOAT.
• An 8 cavities layout design of the pipe fittings will produce a better mold flow during the injection production of the pipe fittings.

Anyway, to upgrade your PVC/PPR pipe fittings injection molding system you must keep in mind that it's only valuable to have an automation system for bulk production products, which means that one injection molding machine with only one mold to be equipped with one automation system for the pipe fittings' Nut insertion, runner cutting and parts picking.

For any other question about a PVC/PPR pipe fittings auto-production system please contact Adams from SWITEK for a turn-key solutions of pipe fittings production.