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Beckhoff is among the winners of the “Ringier Technology Innovation Award for Plastic Industries” 2010

Monday 25. October 2010 - Innovative technologies and solutions for the plastics industry are honored each year with the "Ringier Technology Innovation Award". About 120 representatives and experts from the plastics industry met on 10 August in the Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel in Shanghai, in order to attend the prizegiving ceremony.

Beckhoff is among the 31 winners in 2010 and received the honor in the categories software, control and automation. With the industry-specific Blow Molding Panel PC, EtherCAT as a fast fieldbus and the “TwinCAT Blow Molding Framework” software library, Beckhoff offers a turnkey control solution for blow molding machines with hydraulic, servo-electric or hybrid drive technology. Using standard hardware and software components and innovative technologies such as EtherCAT and TwinSafe, the integrated control solution from Beckhoff replaces traditional hardware concepts with separate PLC, wall thickness controller and temperature controller. Beckhoff’s Ringier Award-winning “all-in-one solution” leads to considerable improvements in the manufacture of plastics in relation to both manufacturing efficiency and product quality, as well as with regard to the saving of energy and environmentally-friendly production.