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We'll soon be starting with the canoe

The project "Kanu Schaffen" was presented in the children's workshop Eigen-Sinn.

Recently, Stephan Klumpp presented the project "Kanu Schaffen" in the children's workshop Eigen-Sinn. Now it's officially started.

Freudenstadt. Children and adolescents from the children's home as well as the children's workshop Eigen-Sinn want to build two canoes themselves under the guidance of experts, to later paddle around with them. Half a year you want to take time for it, even in the holidays and on Saturdays "kanuschaffen".

The children's workshop on Badstraße in Freudenstadt was fully occupied. Children, adolescents, parents, educators, social educators and employees had come to the start of the project.

Klumpp called it a summiteers project and asked the children what they thought about the summit storm. Courage, sweat, endurance, good prospects, happiness and no desire were mentioned among others. "Courage is the key," said Stephan Klumpp and promised to storm with the children to the summit of the shared sense of achievement.

In his personal life story, he made it clear that it takes courage to pack your own life backpack. He had "made a lot of shit" at a young age and was fortunate enough to encounter "angels, helpers and whisperers", who later helped him, including in business life, to "develop and live my purpose".

Material is already ready.

Ulrike Haist from the children's home Villa Sonnenheim presented a children's workshop and children's home, facilities that help those children and parents who need support.

Stephan Klumpp (48) from Baiersbronn-Huzenbach is a qualified mechanical engineer and ten years ago he became self-employed as the managing owner of Proplas. Proplas is a service provider in the field of measuring and testing as well as CT analysis of industrial products such as shower heads, toothbrushes or cosmetics.

"The material is already there," said Klumpp and revealed that you do not want to deal solely with gluing and sawing in canoe making, but that there are also other projects. Now you want to start soon with the summit storm. Employees of Proplas want to help with the project. Dietmar Sipple and Florian Bukowski are the contact persons of Kinderheim and Kinder-Werkstatt.

 

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Source: Schwarzwälder Bote 31.01.2019

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INNONET Speed Dating in the Plastics Industry

// 26.01.2018 //

INNONET Plastics introduces new members in the INNONET Talk

 

INNONET Plastics is the network with the highest membership in the southern German plastics industry and sees itself as the hub for contacts and know-how. An introductory round of new entrants coined the first INNONET network meeting of the year at the Horber Innovation Park and Network headquarters, the Plastics InnoCentre.

Speed ​​Dating with a difference: The focus of the first INNONET Plastics Network Meeting of the Year was on portraying one's own service portfolio in a matter of minutes in a clear and concise manner and highlighting opportunities for cooperation with other companies. The format makes sense, because the growth of the network is brilliant. "Last year alone, 26 new partners joined the network, which has now grown to 112 members, and enriched it with a lot of additional expertise," summarizes INNONET boss Axel Blochwitz. "The INNONET plastic stands for professional cooperation in a family atmosphere" describes Blochwitz the charm of the active industry association. Eleven new network partners used the Horber Plastics InnoCentre to present their very special corporate portfolio. In addition, the project managers Udo Eckloff and Nadine Kaiser showed the opportunities for participation in the network and in the Plastics InnoCentre through to joint trade fair presentations.

Fact is: the INNONET plastic is becoming more professional. "We are expanding the network into an even more efficient network and creating new formats to bring together specialists from the individual fields of expertise and industry segments," says Nadine Kaiser, project manager for the INNONET Plastics Business Development Agency at the Business Development Northern Black Forest years. "We represent the entire plastics value chain, from granulate manufacturers to mechanical engineers and plastics processors to plastics-related service providers" is how Udo Eckloff describes the membership portfolio.

All of the partners im INNONET Plastics can be found here

 

Photos: INNONET Kunststoffe

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Good talks, new orders: The innovation network Innonet Kunststoff is satisfied with its appearance at the Fakuma fair in Friedrichshafen.

Good talks, new orders: The innovation network Innonet Kunststoff is satisfied with its appearance at the Fakuma fair in Friedrichshafen. The leading trade fair for industrial plastics processing on Lake Constance was held for the 25th time and has become the industry's ultimate meeting place, the Innonet announces. The fair with its international, innovative and application-oriented orientation was the perfect platform for the network, which presented itself there with a joint stand.

The boome industry, an export plus for plastic processing machinery and equipment of almost ten percent in the first half of 2017, speaks volumes. Plastics technology "Made in Germany" is in demand as never before. The companies of the industry, which are organized in the Innonet Kunststoff, benefit from this from all over Southern Germany.

Stephan Klumpp, head of the Dornstetter company Proplas and member of the Steering Committee at Innonet, said that the Fakuma scores points for him primarily because of its proximity to the northern Black Forest region and the high proportion of trade visitors. There were significantly more visitors from northern Germany at the joint stand than in the previous years. There was a significant increase in visitors.

With the presentation of the "Plastics InnoCentre" the Innonet showed for the first time flag on project level in Friedrichshafen. Project leader Udo Eckloff presented the service portfolio of the Horb facility to the trade public. Although the order books are jam-packed, the Fakuma is still a must-attend event for many network members, if only for the sake of maintaining contacts.

Anyone who wants to present himself to his customers, but does not want an expensive one-on-one, is "absolutely right" at the Innonet joint stand, according to network boss Axel Blochwitz. A total of 55 member companies of the Innonet Plastics were represented at the fair, 13 of them at the joint stand.

Country politician on site.

On the spot was also the member of parliament Timm Kern (FDP). He spoke with representatives of the total of 13 companies from the Freudenstadt district. "It impressed me once again that our district is a figurehead in the field of plastics processing," says Kern. Kern talked with the company representatives about the expansion of the digital infrastructure, a shortage of skilled workers and bureaucracy. Kern also encouraged a "day of vocational education" at secondary schools to promote dual education. On digitization, he said it was up to politicians to provide a good infrastructure, to fight the growing cybercrime with well-equipped police and to promote new business models with a "second chance culture". Read more...

 

Source: Black Forest Messenger

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ETMM - European Tool & Mould Making // THE MAGAZINE

 

 

 

 

Detailed data and optimization instructions for plastic parts 

This is the subject of an interview conducted by Rosemarie Stahl for the October 2017 edition of ETMM The Magazine 

"Measuring is a delicate topic. For complex tools, simple measurement techniques are not sufficient anymore. For toolmakers who don't have the equipment or know-how for professional measuring, there are service providers like Proplas, who measure plastic products and offer correction support".

 

Stephan Klumpp is CEO and founder of Proplas, a highly flexible measurement service provider. According to the company, it offers accurate results within 48 hours. One main goal of Proplas is to help its customers in developing optimised products. The company owns measurement equipment that is much more efficient than conventional measuring methods, such as x-ray technology. With these methods, Klumpp and his team can provide toolmakers with a useful measurement report and correction data for the tool. Stephan Klumpp explained the advantages of this service for ETMM readers.

How did you get into measuring technology and how was Proplas founded?

Honestly, my getting into measuring technology was a coincidence. I am actually a mechanical engineer with a background in plastic granulation technology. Someone at Carl Zeiss who is very important to me persuaded me that measuring technology had a lot of potential for improvement and that I would be able to employ my additional MBA knowledge there very successfully. The result is a 10-year restructuring of the product portfolio for Zeiss autobody measurement technology and the introduction of holistic optical measuring technology. Planning in the industrial computer tomography sector with the exciting growth and introduction to the market of the Metrotom family of products in 2006 and the utilisation of plastic components - in retrospect, I can see all of this as being my "masterpiece". I wanted to see this cherished baby of mine in use every day and subsequently help to measure plastic products, assess them and provide correction support. This helped us to launch in October 2008 with a computer tomographer and three plastics and tooling experts.

Which services does you company offer for tool and mould-makers?

We provide rapid and holistic information and scan data from the plastic components that are patterned first, and compare them with the product's CAD data within 48 hours of the component arriving. We allow mould-makers to holistically appraise their component; the resulting data serves as a transparent basis for effective and efficient decisions as part of the correction process.

How, in your opinion, does the measuring technology sector look nowadays in typical mould and toolmaking companies?

Our mould-makers never cease to amaze me. You need the best for the moulds' complexity: mechanics, machining experts, CAD/CAM knowledge, everything for steel and experts on everything for when there is a skills shortage.

It goes without saying that it is often difficult for measuring technology in mould-making companies as the core skill is the field of steel moulding. In many cases, measurements are only taken tactilely for the internal measurement of the electrodes, and in urgent situations, initial sample measurements are taken alongside this.

Which problems do you feel arise most frequently when using "traditional measuring methods"?

Tools produced nowadays in Germany for injection moulding with increasingly complex multifunctional components are always extremely intricate and time-sensitive. Traditional tactile and optical measurements are excellent for measuring simple components and for overseeing batch production as part of plastic injection moulding: Level - circle - line - point.

Complex parts often have 200 features on drawing, shape and position tolerances, which are generally no longer possible for tactilely measurement.

Over the course of initial sampling, mould-makers usually take a deep breath – until the first parts drop and the steel is fine. But at this point, the "excellent plastic part" project has only started! Supervision is, in the true meaning of the word, "an art form" that starts with the feedback of the measurements. In mould-making, the initial assessment often takes several weeks with measurement results taken from a variety of different sources. This leads to the waste of valuable resources, manpower and money as early as the first loop.

Which measuring methods do you use?

We measure quickly and holistically. For measuring the initial sample of the plastic components, we use Carl Zeiss and General Electric computer tomography. We also use ATOS optical scanning measuring technology from GOM.

Which data do you supply your customers with?

The most important thing is all of the surface points for the plastic components. That is key, initially. We visualise this in the correct orientation with a comparison of the target and actual states in our myVGL 3.0 data viewer.

The scan data is then also sent to our mould-making customers as *.stl data.

What is the advantage of tasking an external company with measurement?

Firstly, effectively using the hard-to-come-by, highly valuable mould-making expert and the time constraints up to assessing the initial sample, some 48 hours after the first component's been dropped; secondly, doing so with data from the whole component instead of the Excel table that has been tactically created, assessing the production drawings.

Where do you normally find reservations on the part of customers? How do you handle problems of trust?

Trusting in people and technology is actually the essence and fuel of our work. Each and every day, as part of every action, telephone call and measurement service, we develop this trust in effective and efficient implementation time and time again. This starts on the level of individual employees: our mechanical engineers, our team effort in Dornstetten and Neuenburg, our joint excellence together with our customers. The best thing is, this gives us a chance to grow each day.

You are going to be an exhibitor at Fakuma in October. How important are trade fairs, such as the Moulding Expo, for your company?

Fakuma and the Moulding Expo are excellent locations, both for me and us at Proplas, to get to know our mould-makers and plastics firms on an individual basis. Understanding people and technology and experiencing innovation.

These personal encounters allow us to learn, to improve and also to impress our customers again and again. 

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// Upper Westphalian Economy Bielefeld // IHK - Magazine // December 2016

First "plastic Oscar" awarded

Verein Kunststoffe in OWL meets in FH Bielefeld and records changes in plastics technology.

At this year's, the eighth annual conference of the "Kunststoffe in OWL" association, the "Plastics Innovation Award 2016" was presented for the first time to around 70 participants at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld. The "Plastic Oscar" recognizes lasting changes in plastics technology. This also includes new processes and material combinations, through which the use of plastics experiences completely new product possibilities, according to the association. Bachelor graduate Phillip Kriener from the University of Applied Sciences OWL was honored for his thesis on the "flow behavior of blown film" in the category "junior". The main prize went to the Krallmann Group from Hiddenhausen. The jury of professors from the University of Paderborn, the University of Applied Sciences OWL, the FH Bielefeld and representatives of industry honored Krallmann's development of the so-called PVSG process. This method makes it possible to produce Styrofoam molded parts with thermoplastic fasteners, for example, the use of threaded connector for fixing in assemblies. According to the jury, the jury was surprised by the procedure, because despite the low density, Styrofoam is not automatically used in lightweight construction. Therefore, it is necessary to refer to such developments with an award and thus give the developers of components a new food for thought, it continues in the press release for the award. The prize was awarded to Krallmann CEO Dr. Ing. Michael Späth.

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// City Councillors visit PROPLAS in Dornstetten // March 2016

Stephan Klumpp was delighted to show the mayor of Dornstetten Bernhard Haas and business promoter Carolin Baier around the company of PROPLAS.

 The Managing Director presented the company to representatives of the city, in which PROPLAS has established itself as a highly flexible measuring service provider on the market. "Our customers appreciate in particular the speed of the company", said Klumpp. Accurate results based on the time-saving computer tomography methods and thanks to the flexible employees are guaranteed within 48 hours. Mayor Haas was fascinated by the diversity: "From automotive suppliers to the medical device manufacturers or of everyday objects such as accessories for alarm clock or tooth brushes, ProPlas serves many renowned companies. This is very impressive and demonstrates the versatility of your area. "Klumpp is convinced that Dornstetten is the perfect site for his business and stated, "We rely on high-speed Internet." That way, we can impress our customers worldwide with our speed in which we complete their demands. A trouble-free transfer of large amounts of data is important for us to survive.

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ProPlas now in Neuenburg

In April 2015, the new location in Neuenburg, Germany, opened.

One week later the first trade fair for machine tools, models and moulds was launched: an ambitious program for the PROPLAS team but fully paid off. Hundreds of visitors, interesting conversations, the first test orders for enthusiastic new customers - PROPLAS starts highly motivated in the second half of 2015.

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// More CT excellence, more measured spectrum in Neuenburg, Germany

With the new location PROPLAS has even more to offer in our core areas, we are even faster and you can expect even more CT excellence and more measured spectrum. The official opening took place on 28.04.2016

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// Save time in the plastics technology development phase

The industrial computer tomography is not only an issue for large companies which can afford high-tech. Even small companies are able to benefit from this technology - with support from services like PROPLAS from Dornstetten.

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// EUROMOULD 2008 article in FORM WORK Magazine

The Industrial Computer Tomography (ICT), with its X-ray tomography, is growing in popularity in the plastics, tools and also the moulding industry. The company PROPLAS was founded by a former ZEISS employee, and offers ICT as a service.

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// PROPLAS: pioneer in the field of computed tomography

The trade magazine ECONO judges: with developers and manufacturers of plastic components PROPLAS is a competent partner for the development of molds and plastic components as well as quality assurance support. The service company which has been newly established in Dornstetten near Freudenstadt, in Germany specializes in the initial sample report creation and tool offset with metrotomography.

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// PROPLAS: entrepreneurship in crisis times

Stephan Klumpp, CEO of PROPLAS GmbH from Dornstetten, dared to start his own business using a modern outstanding technology. With success! Eight years later he runs an established business with more than ten employees, and a second location in Neuenburg, Germany, which opened in 2015.

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// Ceramic excellence in developing and applicating

"Development of Excellence in the ceramics industry" was the theme at the 3rd Workshop of Development Excellence PROPLAS GmbH with its partner Kläger from Dornstetten. Leading engineers and technicians from various sectors came together to discuss the experiences and possibilities of industrial computed tomography and ceramic injection molding. More...

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// Key points Robert Bosch GmbH excellence

"Which technology saves 50%? How do you manage to go from 100 to 50 hours to working time?"  With the industrial computer tomography, according to Dietmar Heinz and Roland Kehl, Bosch. A classic example: a 200-pin connector. "Before we can even start measuring, with an employee sawing for 40 hours – and hasn’t even taken a single measurement!" With the computer tomography Bosch can do the complete measurement in 40 hours. More...

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