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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2013, 04:22:58 »
New machines, more playmobil for the future.  Sounds good to me.
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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2013, 07:11:17 »
Obviously they're getting things right in some customers' eyes.
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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2013, 15:38:41 »
a 3,200 metric ton machine is over 7 million pounds. What kind of molding machine is that?
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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2013, 18:24:15 »
Interesting
My guess on the large size would either be the big pieces like ship hulls, or multi-part ones that include some assembly like klickies.

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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2013, 18:39:05 »
... I gotta laugh at that the name of that sight.  Plastics and Rubber weekly.  It just oozes excitement.   :lol:

... My guess on the large size would either be the big pieces ...

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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2013, 19:08:08 »
a 3,200 metric ton machine is over 7 million pounds. What kind of molding machine is that?

I would say that this is either a typo or they are using the European convention of commas where we Ammuricans would put a decimal point.  In other words, this may mean 3.200 metric tons or about 7,000 pounds.   :)

Now, having said that, I notice that it says between 6 and 3,200 metric tonnes, so why would the 6 come first as, in my explanation, it would be the larger number.  I don't know what to think, except that I cannot conceive of a machine that weighs 7 million pounds.   ???

In any case, this is a very interesting article, indeed - thanks, Wesley!
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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2013, 19:13:25 »
With so many added moulding machines, perhaps this means they will take older parts back into production again?

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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2013, 21:32:00 »
The tonnage required in the injection moulding process depends on the area of the item being moulded and the nature of the material, sloe flow or high flow, so Tim is probably right, large items such as pirate ship hulls.

Note, too, that the article is not saying that Playmobil is buying an injection moulding machine of 3,200 tonnes, just that they use them, which implies they already have these, not that any of that investment is being spent on them. 

As regards Indianna's suggestion that the comma is being used as decimal point (as is the case in Continental Europe), I don't think this is the case as a decimal point is used in the usual way in the currency figures.
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Re: Playmobil invests £25m in injection moulding kit
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2013, 12:20:53 »
Good to know that things are going well for the Company.
Who knows, maybe this increase in production capabilities might mean that the lines will eventually be released globally so the rest of the world won't have to wait for a year to get the latest assortments.

That or we won't have the problem of regular short sleeves instead of rolled-up sleeves like shown on the boxes because the mold is already over used.

Of course I'm an optimist :)