BEAD.MACHINEThe innovative lightweight creation for processing plastics

3D-printed tools and peripheral equipment
Innovating improvements

The BEAD.MACHINE unlocks its full potential with 3-D printed particle foam tools. Why is that? Simple: We had the idea for the BEAD.MACHINE after conventional moulding machines failed to fully exploit the enormous potential of our tools produced using additive manufacturing. And so we developed a suitable solution: the BEAD.MACHINE.

This combination of BEAD.MACHINE and 3-D printed tool gets the best out of the system and opens up hitherto unthinkable possibilities in particle foam processing. This is what we’re offering you with the BEAD.MACHINE:

• the ideal tool that includes all peripheral devices.
• From grabbing and extraction devices through to partially and fully automated processes, all from a single source.
• The service offering from the idea creators: training, maintenance agreements and on-site service.

Ideas for creating opportunities
Feather-light particle foam components in injection-moulded quality

With significantly lower density than injection-moulded and spray foam components, the BEAD.MACHINE takes lightweight applications to a new level. The BEAD.MACHINE produces particle-foam components, in injection-moulded quality to boot. This opens up entirely new production possibilities: Thanks to haptics, optics and reproducibility in hitherto unthinkable quality, visual components, for example, made from particle foam offer a genuine alternative to injection moulding.

Ideas for creating material diversity

Thanks to the precisely controllable media routing of the BEAD.MACHINE, it is possible to processes a variety of raw materials using the machine. Alongside conventional materials (EPP, EPS, EPE), the BEAD.MACHINE achieves considerably shorter cycle times when working with ETPU, for example. We are currently testing additional materials.

We are happy to carry out tests on different materials or make test components for you in our technical centre. Convince yourself of the performance of the BEAD.MACHINE yourself on site.