Sustainable solutions for the composites and metal industries
More sustainability for your forming processes
Our solutions help you reduce your plant’s CO2 emissions and resource consumption, enabling more climate-friendly and sustainable production.
How CEBRO supports you on your path to greater sustainability:
• Short-stroke presses: Significant energy savings even with high pressing forces
• Adaptive accumulator management: Minimal energy consumption thanks to automatic determination of the exact energy demand
• Variable-speed pump drives: Reduce energy consumption
• LFT-D extruder with demand-driven heating management: Eliminates unnecessary energy consumption during waiting and downtime
• SMC Fibercut: Nesting method and cutting geometries optimize material use
• SMC Fibercut: In-line weight measurement reduces waste while maintaining high component quality
• Fiberforge tape laying system: Minimal waste during the cutting process due to angled cutting
• Fiberforge tape laying system: Optimized material utilization through component-specific laying strategy and combination of different tape widths
• LFT-D plant: In-line recycling of production waste
• Individual customer solutions in cooperation with our Recycling business unit
Discover our sustainable solutions for the composites and metal processing industries
EVORIS as a driving force for energy and material savings
With extensive diagnostic options, the AI-based digitalization platform EVORIS helps to save energy and raw materials. For example, the Reports app provides information on conspicuous consumption of semi-finished products, visualizes the energy consumption of the entire system and shows deviations in a clear and targeted manner. Energy data can be segregated by the component produced. Less efficient production processes can be precisely identified and optimized.
Reduce energy costs with Dieffenbacher short-stroke presses
Dieffenbacher short-stroke presses are designed for minimal energy consumption, high press forces and short cycle times. Presses close via small cylinders with a low oil volume until just before the position where forming takes place. Only then do the forming cylinders act with the corresponding pressing force. This makes it possible to reduce the oil volume by 88% compared with conventional concepts (long-stroke presses). Significant energy savings can thus be achieved, especially with high pressing forces and short cycle times.
Optimize energy consumption with adaptive accumulator management
Dieffenbacher presses with adaptive accumulator management optimize energy consumption and minimize the load on the machine by automatically determining the exact energy requirement for the forming operation for each component during the first strokes of the press. During subsequent production cycles, the hydraulic drive accumulator is charged only to the corresponding required pressure level.
Reduce energy consumption with variable-speed pump drives
Variable-speed pump drives minimize unnecessary energy consumption. The speed of the pumps is adapted to the respective pressing cycle or switched off completely so that only the amount of energy required for the forming process is supplied at precisely the right time.
Demand-driven heating management for LFT-D extruders
During the production of thermoplastic structural components, the heating management system of the LFT-D extruder automatically determines the heating characteristics of the system. By recording the actual heating curves, the heating times are optimized so that unnecessary waiting and downtime at high temperatures in the system are eliminated and no unnecessary energy loss occurs.
SMC Fibercut with material-saving nesting method
Numerous cutting patterns can be created by combining length and width cuts. The intelligent nesting control system automatically determines the desired cutting pattern and optimizes material use. In-line weight measurement of the blanks and automatic weight compensation help you reduce waste while maintaining consistently high component quality.
Minimal waste with nesting and angle cutting with the Fiberforge
With the special nesting method of the Dieffenbacher Fiberforge tape laying system, tapes are cut to the required length and combined into a scrim via a rotary table in a load-oriented manner. The tape ends can be cut at any angle between 0-45°, creating a contour with minimal waste and achieving considerable material savings. In addition, an intelligent, component-specific laying strategy and combination of different tape widths optimizes material utilization. Using these methods, it’s possible to reduce waste to just 6.7% compared to producing the same component from an organic sheet with 50% waste.
Plastics recycling with the Dieffenbacher LFT-D system
The Dieffenbacher LFT-D plant enables efficient series production for manufacturing components from recycled plastic. The special setup of the overall system and the intelligent control of the compounding process make it possible to process a wide variety of input materials and achieve a very high proportion of recycled material. For example, a recycling rate of 40% can be achieved in the production of transport pallets. In addition, production waste, e.g., from the punching process, can be fed directly into the production process, thus reducing waste to a minimum.
