Tooling

TOOLING: How to Vent Mold Details

Principles to follow in venting bosses, ribs, pins, cores, slides, and lifters.

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best practices

TOOLING: Venting: Where And How Deep?

After last month’s introduction to the subject, let’s get into the details on vent depths, land lengths, and the alternatives to perimeter venting.

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Molds & Tooling

CT Scanning Gives Precision Molder X-Ray Vision of Part Quality

It beats other techniques for measuring critical part dimensions, and it provides unique visibility inside parts, nondestructively. One molder’s experience illustrates the benefits.

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Hot Runners

Milacron’s Mold-Masters Business Marks 10 Years In China With Plans to Double Capacity

By the end of 2016, the Milacron subsidiary will have doubled capacity for hot runners and components in Jiangsu, with total headcount approaching 1000.

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Milan Plast Was Good With Plans To Be Even Better

Big international turnout at the triennial international fair for the plastics and rubber industry, Milan Plast: check out the Plastics Technology slideshow.

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Materials

American Injection Molding Institute: ‘A New Kind of Plastics Education’

Building 'foundational knowledge' and critical thinking skills.

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Compounding

News Highlights from NPE2015

Here鈥檚 a first look at new technology in materials, auxiliaries, and all types of processes.

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Molds & Tooling

TOOLING: Venting: A View From the Trenches

Venting is a prime culprit for molding problems, partly because toolmakers and process techs have different ideas of what’s needed.

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processing tips

TOOLING: Clearing Up the Mysteries Of Mold Texture

It’s a subject not widely understood by molders and it affects more than just part appearance.

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Hot Runners

At NPE: Precise Valve-Gate Programming

Electric drive programs valve-pin movements.

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Blending & Dosing
Process Cooling