Injection Molding
KraussMaffei Launches Chinese-Made All-Electric Injection Machines, Twin-Screw Extruders and Robotics Line at Chinaplas 2019
The products, which are targeting the local market and export, will be supported by a new manufacturing site that broke ground in in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in March.
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Five Straight Years of Record Returns for Engel and a Doubling of Production Space for Wintec in China
The Austrian maker of injection molding machines set a new record for sales in its last fiscal year completed in March—Euro 1.6 billion—while announcing a doubling of manufacturing space for its Wintec line of Chinese-made machines at Chinaplas.
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LSR Molders Now Can Tailor Cure Speed, Temperature & Durometer
Elkem’s LSR Select is enabling faster cures at lower temperatures and custom durometer blends. Dosing equipment has caught up with capabilities of this novel material system.
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Robot & Cobot Makers Are Pairing Up
Sepro adds its Visual controls to UR collaborative robots.
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Seeking Better Balance in Medical Molding
Medical injection molding demands shot-to-shot consistency of part and process—a fundamentally challenging task in multicavity molding—is there better path to flow balance?
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Injection Molding: Two-Platen Vertical Press Has Lower Mold Table
Mold table at waist height instead of shoulder height is more ergonomically efficient.
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Injection Molding: New Line of Servohydraulic Toggles, Designed in U.S., Built in China
Calypso Machinery enlisted a Chinese manufacturing partner to build machines for North America.
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Injection Molding: Now Mold Microcellular Foams with a Standard Screw & Barrel
Trexel’s new Tip Dosing Module cuts cost and boosts performance by eliminating the special screw and barrel for MuCell foaming.
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Minding Your P’s and Q’s (and Your I’s and O’s) in Medical Molding
Process validation—including Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ)—is a necessary but time consuming procedure, what if you could speed it up?
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Unusually compact secondary injectors outfit standard presses for multicomponent and sandwich molding.
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