On its Sensitive Surface Days in February, Engel demonstrated its leading position when it comes to intelligent electronic plastic products with high-quality surfaces. Plastic processors from as far as Australia and Japan travelled to Austria to spend two days learning about how innovative technologies could be used to operate plastic surfaces with electronic intelligence. The event was attended by more than 140 participants.
Besides car suppliers, the Sensitive Surface Days were mainly attended by companies from the teletronics, white goods, and medical technology industries, and the event offered them a mix of theory and practical experience. Intelligent plastic surfaces, which are replacing mechanical buttons, sliders, and control dials with the help of capacitive electronics, are now being paid plenty of attention in other sectors too, however. The presentations covered new production technologies, market potential, and visions, among other things, before the participants were given the opportunity to watch a production cell in operation live.
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Participants of the Sensitive Surface Days 2013 (photo: Engel)
