Save the Date 2024: Fairs and events

The year 2023 is coming to an end. Therefore we are already in process of preparing the fairs of the upcoming year.

We also would like to help you with your planning process! Therefore you can find here all events for 2024, which you can expect to see and meets us in person:

• Kesterke Technologietag, Cloppenburg, 31.01.2024
• KPA, Ulm, 28.-29.02.2024
• Hein Technologietag, Langenhagen, 29.02.2024
  With presentation by Stefan Hofmann
  
• Kuteno, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, 14.-16.05.2024
• FAKUMA, Friedrichshafen, 15.-19.10.2024

Always up tp date

A practical summary of all events, fairs or webinars can be found anytime on our new page “upcoming events“. This way you can be up to date with a glance.

Also, additional information including regarding free fair tickets, e.g. for the KPA can be found there.

Book your appointment, now!

You would like to plan ahead? Then you can already set up a date with our sales team for the upcoming events.

Just shoot us a quick email with your request at sales@hofmann-impulsgeber.de. We are looking forward to your visit!

Hofmann at the Fakuma 2023 in Friedrichshafen

The trade fair Fakuma 2023 will take place from 17th to 21st of October – and we will be there again! In addition to 1,500 exhibitors from all areas of plastics technologies and processing the annual international trade fair offers an extensive supporting programme, lectures, an exhibitor forum and excellent networking opportunities.

Our trade fair presence

You will find us at the Regloplas joint stand A3-3205 in Hall A3 together with our co-exhibitors Regloplas, SAR, Rehsler and WENZ on generous 340 m². Look forward to innovative plastics technologies and discuss your topics with us in our comfortable lounge while enjoying a light refreshment.

Tip: You can easily find us right next to the Arburg stand.

In addition to news about our particle foam booster BEAD.MACHINE, we have innovations in toolmaking, such as tools for IMSE technologies and our VARIO.THERM temperature control unit. Also on our stand is the digital mould monitoring system Digital Moulds.

Free Fakuma trade fair tickets

This year, for the first time, we can offer you free trade fair tickets for Fakuma 2023!

You can use the code “45N6J-DXKW2” when creating your ticket. Alternatively, simply click on the button below and the code will already be stored for you. All you have to do is register for the trade fair and you will then receive your free ticket for the plastics trade fair.

Arrival and hall plan

You can easily find Fakuma at Messe Friedrichshafen by car, bus or train at the following address:

Neue Messe 1
88046 Friedrichshafen

The fair is also located in the direct vicinity of the airport and is therefore also very easy to reach for international guests.

You can find the current hall plan here.

Günter Hofmann receives Tool and Mould Making Medal of Honour

Our long-standing Managing Director Günter Hofmann was awarded the “Werkzeug & Formenbau Ehrenmedaille” (Tool & Mould Making Medal of Honour) at Moulding Expo 2023.

His decades of commitment to the industry, the continuous filling of honorary positions and the promotion of young talent convinced the independent jury. Not to forget, of course: The strong leadership of our company over several decades.

The medal is awarded by an independent jury consisting of respected personalities from the VDMA, the VDWF – Verband Deutscher Werkzeug- und Formenbauer e.V. (Association of German Tool and Mould Makers) and the WBA Aachener Werkzeugbau Akademie GmbH. With this award, the jury recognises special merits and outstanding contributions to the development of tool and mould making.

The award does not aim to honour a completed life’s work of the honoured, but rather to serve as an incentive to continue to exert a positive influence on the industry and, in particular, to serve as a role model and guide for younger generations.

Medal of Honour at Moulding Expo 2023

The renowned Medal of Honour is awarded every two years for outstanding achievements in the industry at the Moulding Expo, a leading trade fair for the tool moulding industry.

The Moulding Expo offers a diverse supporting programme which focuses on innovations, practical applications, future perspectives and the promotion of young talent. A special highlight of this programme was the presentation of the Tool and Mould Making Medal of Honour. As a firm tradition, this honour takes place every two years as part of Moulding Expo and recognises exceptional services within the industry.

Günter Hofmann took over the family business Siegfried Hofmann GmbH from his father Siegfried Hofmann in 1995. More than two decades later, he handed over the company management to his son Stefan Hofmann in 2018.

During his time as managing director, the company trained over 500 apprentices, opened a new training centre, several new buildings e.g. for the mechanical engineering sector, and a completely new factory plant in Lichtenfels. He also promoted the development of the company as an international, high-tech player in toolmaking as well as the rapid growth of the mechanical engineering division.

More historical highlights can be found in our Milestones.

Images: Fabian Diehr

Unique research and innovation: Patents from Siegfried Hofmann GmbH

Striving for ever better solutions to meet our customers’ requirements is an integral part of our corporate philosophy. The goal: to always provide you with optimal products, technologies and services that are unsurpassable in terms of quality.

To make this possible, every year we invest manpower, time and equity in researching new techniques and processes from which you, our customers, can benefit. May it be new manufacturing processes for plastic and particle foam parts, new mold technologies, or new impulses for temperature control equipment – our efforts to make good things even better extend from mold making to mechanical engineering.

For your success: Our patents

This ambition pays off: Since 2019 alone, over 26 new patents from “Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber” have come into force. As a result, our customers regularly benefit from novel as well as unique technologies from us. Meaning we can even better fulfill their product requirements or implement previously unrealizable demands.

By applying research results, our customers can additionally optimize the quality of their products. Thanks to our patents, they can integrate features and consumer benefits into their products that were previously impossible to implement. This enables special competitive advantages, as the needs of end customers can be met in unique ways – and in ways that no other competitor can.

The latest technology usually goes hand in hand with solutions that are in higher quality, more effective, more efficient and longer lasting. Therefore, due to our patents, you can also save long-term costs in production. These cost savings can in turn be passed on by our customers to the end user.

All patents of “Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber” can be viewed at any time on the website of the German Patent and Trademark Office.

One machine, many patents: BEAD.MACHINE

Our particle molding machine BEAD.MACHINE combines numerous innovative solutions and impressively demonstrates why patents can give you a competitive edge:

For example, thanks to technology protected by “Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber” publication number DE 10 2017 118 960 B4, the BEAD.MACHINE implements even the most filigree details and structures with particle foam: Tiny intricacies and patterns are easily realized thanks to additively manufactured tools. This enables detailed particle foam surfaces in just one manufacturing step – making additional and time-consuming surface treatment such as lasering unnecessary.

Further patents regarding the processing of the particle foam and the filling of an associated mold make the BEAD.MACHINE a particularly resource-saving and economical molding machine, which at the same time shines with unique precision.

Read more: Further information on the BEAD.MACHINE and its advantages.

KUTENO 2023: Meet our experts in plastic

After our first trade show in Southern Germany in 2023, this year’s KUTENO – Kunststofftechnik Nord – is our trade show participation for Northern Germany in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. From May 09 to 11, 2023, we are looking forward to your visit at booth B6 in hall 1.

Over 250 exhibitors will come together as part of the supplier fair for the plastics processing industry. Rounded off by an extensive lecture program, trade visitors can already look forward to interesting discussions and impressions.

Find out more about our focus topics at the trade fair in the KUTENO Community on our Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber profile. If you wish, you can also reserve a discussion slot directly with our experts on site. Simply use the contact option or get in touch with our sales department.

Coupon code for your free trade fair ticket

Save the costs for your fair ticket:
Use the link below to get your KUTENO ticket completely free of charge.

Alternatively, you have the option of purchasing a day ticket for €25 at the box office on site during the trade fair.

Get your free ticket

We are looking forward to your visit!

Save the Date: KUTENO, Moulding Expo & Fakuma

Additionally to our participation at the KPA in Ulm, Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber has three more trade fair dates scheduled for this year:

• KUTENO: 09. – 11. of May 2023 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
• Moulding Expo: 13. – 16. of June in Stuttgart, Germany
• Fakuma: 17. – 21. of October, 2023 in Friedrichshafen, Germany

Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber at KUTENO

KUTENO – Kunststofftechnik Nord – offers three days of input and networking opportunities regarding the entire process chain of the plastics processing industry. You can already find Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber with a lot of information in the KUTENO Community.

Get your free tickets for KUTENO, now:
Simply use the code Qk9xg5Kd during the online visitor registration and receive your free trade fair ticket!

Moulding Expo in Stuttgart

Over four days, all the top manufacturers will meet at the international trade fair for tool, model and mold making – and of course we will be there, too!

With more than 700 exhibitors, the biennial trade show offers excellent networking potential and features an interesting supporting program.

Visitor tickets are already available online.

Your source of inspiration at Fakuma

In October, nearly 1,500 exhibitors come together at the world’s leading trade event for industrial plastics processing – and we’ll be there, naturally! Over the course of five days, this must-attend event offers the ideal opportunity to gather information, discover new trends and connect.
Tickets for Fakuma can be purchased approximately six weeks before the show starts.

Of course, we will keep you up to date with the latest news here, in our website news and on our social media channels LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

FunciFoam: Steamless particle foam technology for new areas of application.

Research is an important pillar for Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber in order to always be able to offer its customers and partners the most innovative and best technologies. This has already been proven, among other things, by the award „Innovativ durch Forschung“ from the Stifterverband.

We are therefore all the more pleased to have successfully completed the “FunciFoam” research project with our research partners, which was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy:

Within the project, the variothermal processing for efficient as well as steamless particle foam welding was analyzed. The process was investigated for established (EPS, EPE and EPP) as well as new technical particle foams, which are difficult to foam by conventional steam welding. The aim was to develop an energy-efficient process using a newly developed variothermal tool that can be used to integrate in-situ functional elements such as metal inserts or electronic elements e.g. LED lightings modules.

Together with the project partners PARAT, FOX Velution, the UVEX Safety Group and Neuen Materialien Bayreuth as well as the supporting partners AUDI and RYGOL Dämmstoffe, the research project was successfully completed by realizing a functional demonstrator in the form of a tool case with in-situ foaming-in of metal inserts and an LED module.

The final case made of mPPE particle foam not only convinces with a weight saving of more than 30 % compared to a previous reference product, but also offers new application possibilities due to the foamed-in elements compared to regular steam-based products.

Are you interested in further information to realize your project via “FunciFoam” or another innovative particle foam technology?

Then please contact our sales department – our experts are looking forward to hearing from you.

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Hofmann starts at the KPA into the exhibition year 2023

From 08th to 09th of March 2023, Hofmann – Ihr Impulsgeber will be kicking off the 2023 trade fair year at the “KPA – Kunststoff Produkte Aktuell” in Ulm. This year, the trade fair in southern Germany is starting with a new trade fair concept including over 130 exhibitors and a varied supporting program.

Take the opportunity to find out about the latest technologies, opportunities and trends in mold technologies, injection molding and plastic components at the Hofmann booth. In hall 6 at booth A23-4 our experts are waiting for you to discuss your concerns: Whether multi-component injection molding, Variotherm®, ColorForm®, SkinForm® or back molding – we will also find a perfectly tailored solution for you from a single source. Of course, completely planned, developed and manufactured at our company headquarters in Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia.

You don’t have a ticket for the KPA 2023 yet?

Then you have the opportunity to secure a free trade fair ticket for one or both KPA trade fair days under the following link:

We are looking forward to your visit!

Hofmann at K 2022

K 2022, the world’s largest plastics trade fair, will take place in Düsseldorf from October 19 – 26. We will be on site with our own booth as well. We are looking forward to welcoming you in hall 13 at booth C10.

We proudly present the BEAD.MACHINE, our miracle of efficiency in particle foam processing. There will also be exclusive insights into the VARIO.THERM, our latest innovation.

Of course, our injection moulding experts will also be there and will be happy to provide advice and share their expertise.

Come and see us!