Yushin, the Japnanese robotic arm producer established in 1973, on show turn-key solutions of Toy Strongman assembly with top entry servo robotic arms at PlastImagen 2025 with the injection molding done by Arburg Allrounder Golden Electric all electric injection molding machine. The same system was on show NPE 2024 in Olando, USA.

The high lights of the system is that the parts for the strong man (Arms, Legs, Head, Body) were perfectly integrated into one mold and ensure the precision of each parts to ensure a perfect assembly. It's a challenge of the balance of the hotrunner and the cooling system design of the mold to ensure the balance of the plastic flow and cooling of parts to have a perfect shrinkage of each parts of the strong man.

The assembly of the Strongman is a perfect demonstration of the cooperation of gantry robotic arms in a complex application of automation such as assembly of which will mostly done by a 6 axis servo industrial robot. It's a combination of the precise movable control technology of the robotic arms, the application of the cylinder and cutting edge end of arm tooling design technology.

With more producers of the pails for paints introduced IML system in their production, it make the IML paints pails market getting more and more competitive. With a lower investment on the facilities will no doubt help to earn the investment back faster. Here is some recommendation of the IML solutions for 20L buckets for your reference.

Top Entry 20L IML Paint Pails Solution

As a 20L IML pails would be produced in an injection molding machine around 700T with a cycle time of 25s or longer, the robot to recommed would be SW7518DS by SWITEK Automation which is a 3 axis servo injection robot with a kick-back design, the best structure for deep cavity parts picking like an IML pails. It's the top choosed robot for an IML system of 20L paint buckets.

As a deep cavity IML container, the injection molding machine would be very important because it'll request a much larger opening stroke to ensure that the IML robot will have sufficient space to pick the buckets and insert the label. The injection molding machine to recommend here is the HD700U seriese of injection molding machine produced by HAIDA. This machine is specially designed for the production of IML pails > 20L with enlarged opening strokes.

For any more questions about the production of 20L IML pails for paints please just feel free to contact Adams to get a ready to work turn-key IML solution.