Oerlikon

  • 18 December 2025

    Oerlikon HRSflow launches a new service centre in Italy

    Covering an area of 1,200 square meters, the new service facility recently inaugurated at the Oerlikon HRSflow plant in San Polo di Pieve (Treviso, Italy) is equipped with advanced machinery and a highly specialized team. It enhances Oerlikon HRSflow’s operational flexibility, enabling the company to deliver...
  • 03 December 2025

    Hot runner system with diaphragm gate

    Unlike conventional designs with axially moving needles, STARgate HRS hot runner technology from Oerlikon HRSflow, featuring a completely redesigned gate unit, uses a diaphragm-like element in the gate plane to manage melt flow into the cavity. Eliminating the need for...
  • 08 August 2025

    New paths towards hot runners efficiency

    At K 2025, Oerlikon HRSflow will showcase its groundbreaking STARgate HRS hot runner technology, which enables precise control of melt injection into the mold cavity through a revolutionary valve gate concept. Another new development is the Glow HRS solution, which allows for...
  • 04 September 2024

    New CFO for the Oerlikon Group

    Oerlikon appoints Markus Richter, currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of its Surface Solutions division, as the new Group CFO and a member of the Executive Committee, effective 1 October 2024. He will succeed Philipp Mueller. Until the planned separation of the...
  • 27 September 2023

    Hot runner systems under the banner of sustainability

    At Fakuma 2023, which will take place from 17 to 21 October in Friedrichshafen (Germany), Oerlikon HRSflow will be focusing on hot runner systems that enable greater sustainability and efficiency in thermoplastic injection moulding. In addition to future-oriented automotive applications, the focus will be on...
  • 23 November 2022

    Optimized hot runner systems for PCR compounds

    Oerlikon HRSflow has developed special hot runner solutions for PCR compounds. Their application possibilities are demonstrated by two examples realized in practice - a fruit crate and a garbage can for composting organic household waste. With these environmentally friendly projects, which...
  • 27 October 2021

    Non-cooled hydraulic cylinder for a wider process window

    With HRScool Evo, Oerlikon HRSflow launches a further development of the HRScool hydraulic cylinder system for hot runner injection moulding, which, thanks to its sophisticated temperature management, does not require active liquid cooling of the actuation unit. Thanks to a further reduction in the heat flow between...
  • 16 June 2021

    Acquisition of INglass successfully closed

    The acquisition of the Italian company INglass and its innovative hot runner systems technology operating under its market-leading HRSflow business by Oerlikon has been successfully closed. The acquisition accelerates Oerlikon’s strategy in diversifying its manmade fibres business...