Between March 5 to 7, 2003, the most important tyre manufacturers and machine constructors in the world
met at the exhibition grounds in Hamburg, Germany for the Tire Technology Expo 2003. ThyssenKrupp Elastomertechnik
used the opportunity to invite the tire manufacturers to an in-house exhibition. More than 100 guests from the tire industry,
including Bridgestone, Pirelli, Continental, Michelin and Hankook accepted the invitation. As suppliers of control
technology, Beckhoff were represented with an exhibition stand, and presented the latest automation solutions.
ThyssenKrupp Elastomertechnik‘s rubber engineering division, based in Hamburg, offers a comprehensive range of products: processing extruders, extrusion lines, tire construction machines, hot tire presses and complete fabrication installations for the tire industry, along with degassing extruders, shear head equipment, process control systems and production lines for rubber profiles.
During the exhibition, ThyssenKrupp Elastomertechnik presented their skill in the rubber processing industries for all the important procedures from raw-material acceptance and preparation through all the further processing stages up to vulcanization. In addition to new extrusion equipment, hot presses and tire construction machines, a study on the new development of a 24 inch construction machine was also presented.
Joachim Bieber, head of the Beckhoff branch in Hanover, was very pleased with the presentation at the in-house exhibition: “This forum gave us an opportunity to present our many years of experience in the automation of tire construction machines.” And Bieber added that “On top of this we were able to demonstrate the good partnership and co-operation between ThyssenKrupp Elastomertechnik and Beckhoff.”
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