[Fakuma 2024] Photovoltaics: Wittmann takes the lead

“We are ready!”

Dominique Lahousse, sales and marketing director

Wittmann Battenfeld France

We see direct current (DC) as the future for the industry and we’re ready! Our DC injection cell is a marketable solution today, even if the market is not yet there. But we have a feeling that it will come and that in a few years, all press manufacturers will offer an equivalent in their range. The objective is to maintain the group’s lead in terms of innovation. As in the early 1980s with electric presses or in 2014-2015 with a pioneering presentation of the 4.0 solution and the modernization of our range…
On our stand, the island demonstrated is notably composed of an EcoPower B8X 180/750 DC Insider, an integrated WX142 robot and a Tempro plus D thermoregulator. It produces Harting plug-in connectors specifically designed for direct current and precisely used to connect the thermoregulator. The two-cavity mold is supplied by the German brand.