Desma advances CO2 footprint app for rubber moulders
5 Mar 2024
Technology designed to track and document factors that impact on product carbon footprint...
Fridingen, Germany –Desma has introduced a new app that provides a detailed overview of the factors that determine the CO2 footprint of individual moulded rubber articles.
The Desma PCF Navigator Ecos also shows which measures can be used to achieve which reduction effects, says the rubber injection moulding machine maker.
The specially developed app “thus makes an important contribution to understanding the connection between all influencing factors,” according to an article on the Desma website.
The technology, it added, enables quick decisions to be made “on the optimum production process [with information] on the range in which the individual CO2 footprint of the article to be produced will be.”
In addition to the specific data of the respective machine type, the PCF Navigator Ecos contains a database with suggested values for a wide range of elastomer types.
The Desma CoolApp is fully integrated to verify the use of cold runner technology, so that the actual material and cycle time savings can be taken into account as realistically as possible.
Calclulations depend on the selected nest layout and the selected cold runner, said Desma, adding that the additional energy consumption due to both cold runner operation and its production is also taken into account.
Additional input fields for manual data entry are provided in order to take into account any upstream or downstream production steps and their CO2 impact.
