KraussMaffei's new AX injection moulding machine series will help slash manufacturing costs in standard applications with up to 60 per cent greater energy efficiency and a 25 per cent smaller footprint for a fully automated, completely enclosed production cell.

The super-slim AX machine features a centrally lubricated, low-maintenance, five-point toggle for the clamp and a moving platen on precision roller bearing guides with friction up to 80 per cent lower than a sliding-support design. The high-precision platen guides guarantee high-platen parallelism, thus helping it to prolong mould service life. The water-cooled converters are regenerative-capable, and harvest braking energy and control the servomotors with high efficiency.