Author Archives: Angelika Wobbe

Lecture on “Foam Injection Molding” at the APAC Congress in Shanghai

In the course of the 19th Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Congress APAC in Shanghai, Dr. Hans Wobbe will be holding a lecture about “Lightweight design – new production equipment with up to 50% higher productivity for foam injection molding”. The process of injection molding for foamed components has grown from few molders in the past to a popular process in recent years. With solutions available today to avoid poor surface qualities – the only real disadvantage involved in foam injection molding – this process has grown to be a real alternative to compact injection molding.The key for this lies in…

Prof. Hopmann further expands IKV network in China

China is not only one of the biggest sales markets for German industry and thus also for German plastics companies, it is also one of the most important economic partners in Asia. In order to increase the visibility of IKV on the largest Asian market, Professor Hopmann together with Dr. Hans Wobbe visited several Chinese plastic companies and also established contacts with Chinese universities. The itinerary included the injection molding machine manufacturers, Haitian International, Ningbo, and Yizumi Precision Machinery, Guangdong, as well as Jwell Machinery, Shanghai, which builds extrusion lines. Yizumi Precision Machinery was so convinced of what IKV has…

Lecture on “Combination Technologies” at the 43rd Foundry Colloquium Aachen

As invited speaker at the 43rd Foundry Colloquium, held by the Institute of Foundry, Aachen / Germany, Dr, Hans Wobbe will be holding a lecture on “Combination technologies metal / plastics based on injection molding process”. Driven by the global trends of increasing mobility, declining resources as well as the climate change, the subject of the lightweight construction has emerged as a top topic. One way to develop lightweight design leads from the multi-material systems of combination between metal and plastics. Based on the injection molding process for plastics – suitable for mass-production – the lecture shows the current combination…

WBP and Rogalla Consulting are cooperating as partner

Since summer 2015 Wobbe Bürkle Partner has been cooperating with Rogalla Consulting (www.rogalla-consulting.de) in the field of consulting in plastics processing for the Asian market focusing China and India. As well as Erwin Bürkle and Hans Wobbe, Arno Rogalla has his background in plastics industry. With over 20 years of work experience in different management positions, he set up his own management consultancy in 2009. In recent years, both Dr. Rogalla and Dr. Wobbe have managed a whole series of different projects in India and China. They have thus been able to gain profound knowledge and insights in the domestic…

Yizumi appoints Hans Wobbe as new head of Strategy

Since January 2016 the publicly listed injection moulding machinery producer Yizumi (Foshan City, Guandong / PR China; www.yizumi-group.com.hk) has appointed Hans Wobbe as head of its Strategy division. Wobbe emphasised that he serves in an advisory capacity and is not an employee of Yizumi. He remains an independent advisor within his own consultancy. He also continues to support technology transfer at the Institute of Plastics Processing at the RWTH University Aachen / Germany. Yizumi purports to be China’s second largest injection moulding machinery maker, with sales of about 200 Mio EUR in the section of injection moulding machines. The company…

Trexel appoints Dr. Wobbe as new Strategic Technology Advisor

Trexel appoints Hans Wobbe as the new Strategic Technology Advisor for its company (Trexel Inc., Wilmington, MA, www.trexel.com). In this new role, Dr. Wobbe will assist Traxel in the development of innovative foaming technologies in order to broaden its market reach. “Focused on the continuous development of our innovative foaming technologies, Dr. Wobbe will be an invaluable asset to Trexel. We are so excited to bring someone with Dr. Wobbe’s knowledge, expertise and experience onto the Trexel team”, said Brian Bechard, President and CEO of Trexel. “I am very happy to join the team at Trexel, and eager to help…

Bürkle is leaving our partnership

After 5 years of successful cooperation, Dr.-Ing. Erwin Bürkle is leaving our partnership Wobbe Bürkle Partner. Thanks to our wide and global network, the focal points of our consultancy work, particularly with regard to innovative ideas concerning the plastics technology, will not change. In future, our focus will be even more strongly on the further internationalisation of our business, already initiated some years ago together with our partner Rogalla Consulting. We will operate under the name WOBBE & PARTNER under the familiar address in Hitzacker (p369310.mittwaldserver.info).

Ningbo Foreign Experts Symposium

From 16th to 17th September 2015 the first “Foreign Experts Symposium” was held in Ningbo in East China’s Zhejiang province. The city of Ningbo gathered foreign experts together for giving their opinions on topics such as international industrial cooperation, industrial upgrading and city planning. Dr.-Ing. Hans Wobbe gave a presentation with recommendations how to further develop the industrial region Ningbo within the province Zhejiang. It is planned to build up a coppoeration between the Universtiy of Ningbo and German Plastics Institutes such as the IKV at the RWTH in Aachen. With the “One Thousand Foreign Experts Plan” the Chinese government…