Tooling

sustainability

Tooling: Compact Identification Stamps

Stamps are available for the standard international food, recycling and CE symbols

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Tooling: Locking Cylinder Features Compact Design

By eliminating the need for side locking of the slides, a new cylinder’s simplified design features fewer components, which saves space and installation/repair time.

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Hot Runners

Hot Runners: Range of Ready-to-Install Single Needle Valves Extended

Ready-to-connect system—including nozzle; all the hot runner and connection components; the clamping, frame and nozzle retainer plate; and also the standard parts—can be directly assembled to the fixed mold plate.

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Fast-Growing Westfall Technik Acquires Two More Molders & a Moldmaker

Three purchases in the first quarter of 2019 add to the group’s focuses on medical and micromolding.

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Injection Molding & 3D Printing Combine to Make ‘Impossible’ Parts

Stereolithography cavity inserts can be injected with thermoplastic, then removed from the mold and dissolved away to leave a complex-shaped part.

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Hot Runners

Hot Runners: Control Features Adjustable Touch Screen

Hasco's H1280 series of controllers come in three sizes, including table top units, operating from 6 to 36 zones. 

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See the Mold Filling on Your Press Control Panel

Arburg embeds flow simulation in its Gestica controller.

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Tooling: Components Target Clean Room Molds

Date plugs and support pillars feature clean-room specific adaptations.

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Mold-Clamping Details for Profit

Taking time to sweat the details of clamping is not much fun, but they do make a difference in a company’s bottom line.

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Mold Maintenance

Tooling: First Mold Cleaner with Only EPA-Exempt VOCs

Slide Products spray-on mold cleaner meets or surpasses EPA and California CARB standards.

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Blending & Dosing