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13.11.2017 Education, Student Life

Materials Processing Technology department is a mystery for one and a joy for other. To popularize it among all students of Arcada we decided to talk to staff and students about what concerns and expectations are floating around. RENE HERRMANN, Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences and Composite Materials in Arcada University of Applied Sciences, has agreed to discuss environmental issues and students’ future with PET (Polymer Engineering Technology) Club in…

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“Future or reality?” Or “Welcome to Dusseldorf”

14.11.2016 Student Life

Thursday morning, 7.00, airport. I was waiting for the plane with a total confidence that I have a plan. Or, well, something like a plan. And few hours later we were standing near the entrance to the fair – my confidence was crushed, although there was a little hope that I still do have a plan. But then we went inside… … And at some point I found myself walking…

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K- fair ”Broaden Your Horizons”

31.10.2016 Student Life

There are many ways to find information about a product, but a trade fair will allow you to easily and effectively experience product features and product manufacture. It is only at a trade fair where you can explore the product yourself, ask questions, test and compare its characteristics. Trade fairs are the quickest and most effective way to keep up-to-date with latest innovations. We visited K fair in Düsseldorf for…

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Business in the front, party in the back: Once upon a time in K-fair

28.10.2016 Student Life

Smart suits and business cards all around. Sports bag, hiking boots and cranky mood. I’ll fit in well. Grey clouds covering the sky once I step onto the surroundings of K-fair set a perfect mood. Long and tiring day. Laying down on stairs feels great. Classy, I know. Our slightly nerdy group of engineers finally gathered together and thus our lovely stay in Düsseldorf had started. K-fair is the largest…

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The fourth industrial revolution is on our hands!

26.10.2016 Student Life

A K-fair summary from the two guys who just showed up. So the story here was PET club has a tradition of going to the K-fair the largest trade fair for all plastics-and polymer industry. How does two energy- and environmental engineering students find themselves on a trip to Germany? Well in our case you help out at a kid’s science fair and carry a few chairs, apparently you sometimes…

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Injection molding

21.10.2016 Student Life

For my first day at the k-fair I have located that the injection molding machines are mainly in halls 13 and 15 ad walked around trying to see them all and learn as much as possible. It seems like some injection molding manufacturers are specialized into doing machines for a specific application or with a specific approach on things, like bottle pre-form manufacturing or developing a really advanced robot for…

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Heading to K-fair

20.10.2016 Events, Student Life

Whoa, it’s been a while since I’ve gotten this login to work! Great to see you kids!😃 I was aiming to get into the PET CLUB blog to post about K-fair 2016, but here I am instead! Anyway if you are seeing this you should def keep your eyes peeled for daily updates from the group as we travel to Düsseldorf, Germany for the largest plastics and industry convention of…

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New Year

07.01.2016 Student Life

Pet Club finished the year of 2015 with a trip to Tampere before everything quieted down before the holidays. The landscape was a winter one as Tampere had some snow. We visited Leomuovi where we saw injection molding and compression molding, we had a guided tour in the Material Sciences laboratories of Tampere University of Technology and lastly we visited Asoma were we learned about product design and thermoforming. It…

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3D Printing

16.10.2015 Education, Student Life

It is PET Club here again hello. In our first post we introduced ourselves and our goal. This post will be about other interesting plastics related stuff. Additive manufacturing builds up the product by synthesizing a three dimensional object. A 3D printer builds objects layer by layer mostly from molten plastic according to a 3D model. It is often used for making prototypes and making small series. It saves material…

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The PET Club says hello!

18.09.2015 Projects, Student Life

This is the blog of the PET Club. Most students at Arcada knows us as the people who makes the Cor Cups. But the main purpose of our club is to go to a big plastics fair in Düsseldorf Germany called the K-fair. This fair is organized every third year and the next one is the K-2016 one. The webpage of the fair can be found by clicking the following link…

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