Sollex at Underhållsmässan 2024, Gothenburg

Smart industry, sustainability, new cool technologies and materials

Sollex regularly and continuously visits various trade fairs. This blog post tells about which fairs we plan to visit and are happy to meet customers and suppliers at. If there is a trade fair that you would like to meet us at, feel free to contact us and we will be happy to come.

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2023-03-12

Sollex at Underhållsmässan 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden

Sollex was at Underhållsmässan in Gothenburg and met customers and partners. It was intense few days with everything from stand visits to new lessons about tomorrow's sustainable maintenance.

It felt like the fair was well filled with visitors, exhibitors, and maintenance conferences. The theme of the 2024 Maintenance Fair was sustainability and smart solutions for a sustainable Industry. Many exhibitors were long-term Sollex customers who address the maintenance industry.

The fair arranged a workplace safety conference. Sollex presented Martor's safety knives as a wide range of safety knives for all applications. Especially the new one that is developed for cutting bags.

At Underhållsmässan 2024, Sollex showcased new safety knives from Martor and promoted larger machine knives for recycling.

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2023-11-14

Sollex at Elmia Subcontractor, 14 November 2023, Jönköping Sweden

Elmia Subcontractor is Northern Europe's leading trade fair for suppliers to the process industry. It is a standing visit every year in the Sollex calendar for inspiration and technological advances. A strong commitment to reduce CO2 emissions together with UN’s 17 goals were like a mantra at the Subcontractor trade floor.

Again, from a Sollex perspective, there were many new materials that needed to be cut. At the InnoDex inspiration arena, you could find leather-like material made from seashells, hemp fiber products, packaging in hay, and new foam and board. Several seminars about sustainability were held with some more or less practical tips and tricks on how to get your sustainability audited.

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2021-11-10

Sollex at Elmia Subcontractor, 9-11 November 2021, Jönköping Sweden

The Elmia Subcontractor fair is a yearly fair with loads of new cool stuff for manufacturing companies. Coming trends, developments, and new technologies. 2021 the theme was clear: smart industry and sustainability.

Sollex news about stainless steel 

Product technology news for Sollex included a new supplier who is able to improve our acid-proof stainless steel knives. In addition, our really large stainless steel knives will get improved delivery times.

News about blade coatings 

It is always fascinating to discuss coatings on blades. At Elmia subcontractor 2021 we found some new coatings that we will try and carefully test and evaluate. The tricky thing with coating blades is how to clean the blades and to know exactly which blades and coatings work for different slitting processes. News is interesting but very seldom useful in gemba. We are proud to offer our coated blades with T, K, Z, and X coatings, optimized for slitting different materials. These qualities are proven and guaranteed to work for plastic film manufacturing industries.

However Sollex is capable of coating blades with: TiN, AlCrNAlCrN-based Crosscut Plus, TiAlN, Hardcut Plus, PVD coatings conatining TiSiN, Tetrabond Plus, CVD coatings such as Bernex 29HSA Plus alpha, aluminium oxid, PVD coatings such as DLC, Triobond, PACVD coatings, CrN and ADLC.

But before asking for these type of coatings we ask you to test our T, K, Z, and X coatings. These are well proven and we know they work over time.

New cutting edge materials 

At Elmia Subcontractor 2021 we found tires made of rubber extracted from Dandelions. New biobased sandwich boards that will replace todays sandwich materials. In addition three new materials Dessertom Appleskin, and Bananatex

Desserto – vegan leather made from cactus leaves Desserto is a sustainable, plant-based vegan leather made from the cellulose of cactus leaves. A cruelty-free alternative, without any toxic chemicals, phthalates, or PVC. Desserto is biodegradable and has the technical specifications for the fashion, furniture, and automotive industries. Strong molecular bonding gives high resistance to abrasion, rubbing, and tearing and outstanding durability. It offers competitive features for handling humidity and liquids and is fully breathable.

Appleskin – leather alternative made on apples Appleskin is a leather alternative with a low carbon footprint made on apples. Apple skin consists mostly from organic residues such as stems, seeds, apple peels, and fibers. Firstly, we dry the residues, transfer them to a fine cellulose powder, mix them with a bioplastic, and apply them in layers to a carrier such as cotton. At a temperature of around 130 degrees Celsius, the materials fuse together. A variety of textures and thicknesses are achieved by final embossing or laser processing.

Bananatex – water resistant technical fabric made from Banana plants Bananatex is the world's first technical fabric made purely from Banana plants which are organically cultivated in the Philippine highlands. At once powerful and durable, yet light and flexible, the natural beeswax coating gives it a smooth, water-resistant, viable alternative to the synthetic fabrics that currently dominate the bag industry. Bananatex is an open-source project that encourages use.

We are excited for our first request for blades to cut Desserto, Appleskin, and Banantex.

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2021-09-29

Meet Sollex at the industry and technology fair HI in Herning Denmark.

Take the chance to meet Sollex at HI in Herning, Denmark.

HI takes place 2021-10-05 until 2021-10-07. Sollex representatives will be present and actively engaging with attendees in the aisles. Sollex will be present and will showcase a selection of our extensive range of industrial knives.

The Hi show challenges the mindset with the latest, greatest, and most important in innovation, technology and industry. Visitors include engineers, technicians, department heads, machinists, buyers, CEOs and developers in industries such as research and development, machinery, transport, chemicals, consultancy, energy supply, food, plastics, glass and concrete.

This is the first time that Sollex is visiting the HI fair, but we believe that it can be a great meeting place for customers and interested parties of our great knives, knife blades and industrial razor blades. We are happy to meet customers and stakeholders and would be very grateful if you got in touch so we could arrange a meeting.

More about hi Tech & Industry Expo | 5 - 7 October 2021 | Scandinavian Industry expo - Automastion and Robotics: About hi Tech & Industry Scandinavia | 5-7 October 2021

More than 700 exhibitors and a host of exciting events form hi Tech & Industry Scandinavia. 

When hi takes place again from 5 - 7 October 2021, it is 57 years since hi first took place. Through the years hi has become the meeting place and knowledge hub for the entire industry that gathers for three intense days where network, inspiration and knowledge are in focus. 

The exhibitors are divided between five strong industry sectors:

• AUTOMATION & ROBOTS
• MACHINERY & PRODUCTION OF EQUIPMENT
• INTERNAL LOGISTICS
• SUBSUPPLIERS
• FOOD TECHNOLOGY