Injection molding apparatus and injection molding process for producing multicomponent plastics moldings

An injection molding process for producing a plastics molding comprising a first component, a second component, and a third component by means of an injection molding apparatus which comprises a first mold plate and a second mold plate, wherein the first mold plate has at least three first mold nests, the second mold plate has at least three second mold nests, and the second mold plate in a closed state cooperates with the first mold plate in the production of the plastics molding and in an opened state is rotatable relative to the first mold plate;

• wherein
• the injection molding process comprises injection molding of the first component to fabricate a 1K intermediate, of the second component onto a previously fabricated 1K intermediate, to fabricate a 1K+2K intermediate, and of the third component onto a previously fabricated 1K+2K intermediate to fabricate the plastics molding;
• the injection molding process, between one or more successive closing and opening events of the first mold plate and the second mold plate, comprises a rotating of the second mold plate relative to the first mold plate in an alternately reversing direction of rotation, wherein,
• in a case A), 1K+2K intermediates and plastics moldings are produced alternately in two mold nests of the first mold plate, the two mold nests having identically shaped contour faces, or
• in a case B), 1K intermediates and 1K+2K intermediates are produced alternately in two mold nests of the first mold plate, the two mold nests having identically shaped contour faces.