Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V.

Plastics and rubber machines - Compression moulding machines and transfer moulding machines - Safety requirements
 N EN 289

Annotation

This European Standard specifies the essential safety requirements for compression moulding machines and transfer moulding machines for the moulding of plastics and/or rubber with a closing movement more than 6 mm.

In this document a compression moulding machine or transfer moulding machine as described above is designated by the term "press" (see 3.1).

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to presses, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

The safety requirements are specified for the additional hazards arising from:

- shuttle/turn tables used for loading/unloading and/or cooling,

- magnetic clamping systems.

For other ancillary equipment, as defined in 3.7, that is not part of the press, only the requirements for the interaction between presses and ancillary equipment, especially loading and unloading devices are specified.

The following machines or units are excluded:

- pneumatic presses for plastic and rubber;

- injection moulding machines (see EN 201:2009);

- tyre curing machines (see prEN 16474);

- presses for curing inner tubes and curing bags;