Florian Brüning verteidigt erfolgreich seine Promotion mit dem Thema: "Modellierung der Feststoffförderung im Einzug von Nutbuchsenextrudern mit Hilfe von DEM-Simulation" am KTP.

As part of the course "Rubber Processing", Kunststofftechnik Paderborn visited the Continental plant in Korbach together with students.

Diese Veranstaltung bot den Mitgliedern des Vereins zur Förderung der Kunststofftechnologie e.V. die Gelegenheit, aktuelle Forschungsprojekte und vielversprechende Entwicklungen des Vereins sowie der Kunststofftechnik Paderborn kennenzulernen.

On June 15, the annual REX/PSI user meeting took place in Paderborn as a hybrid meeting on the new software content.

On 30 May, the KTP visited Craemer GmbH in Herzebrock-Clarholz on the annual whitsun excursion with students, scientific staff and Prof. Moritzer.

Drei Mitarbeiter vertreten die Kunststofftechnik Paderborn bei der internationalen Konferenz PPS38 in St. Gallen in der Schweiz.

In the project seminar "Designing with Plastics", which is offered annually as part of the bachelor's program at KTP, the participating students have the opportunity to work in groups on a comprehensive task for the design and conception of a plastic component.

The range of machinery at Kunststofftechnik Paderborn has been expanded by a new 2 kW microwave unit. In cooperation with Jens Möckel and Michael Drach from the company Gerlach Maschinenbau GmbH, Jonas Petzke from the Extrusion group is investigating the vulcanization behavior of different rubber compounds in the extrusion process. For this purpose, investigations have already been carried out on a solid-state unit with 500 W power. The findings…

KTP also represented at KUTENO in 2023.

Jonas Petzke and Laura Austermeier represented KTP at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastic Engineers in 2023.

... this was the motto of 11 runners from Kunststofftechnik Paderborn who took part in the 75th Easter Run on Holy Saturday.

On March 21, the meeting of Technical Committee 11 of DVS (Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e. V.) was held for the first time at KTP in Paderborn. DVS Technical Committee 11 specializes in the subject of plastic joining.

The Kunststofftechnik Paderborn is represented with a booth at this year's fair Kunststofftechnik Nord (KUTENO) in Rheda-Wiedenbrück from May 09 - 11.

Since the beginning of the year, C.A. PICARD has been part of the group of industrial companies that can use SIGMA and participate in its further development. The C.A.PICARD Group, headquartered in Remscheid, Germany, manufactures highly stressed precision metal parts, such as spare parts for twin screw extruders, and distributes them worldwide.

As part of the plastics recycling lecture, KTP students get an idea of modern recycling technology in the Systec Plastics processing plant for polypropylene plastic waste from the yellow bag.