Tooling

Production Aluminum Tooling: What's Holding You Back?

It might be time to pursue aluminum molds in applications where traditional P20 steel has been specified without giving serious thought to any alternative.

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processing tips

Benchmarking Simulation Software: How One Molder Did It

Injection mold simulation has become a standard tool for molders and mold designers.

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Drying

News in Auxiliaries & Tooling at Fakuma Show

Late last month, Friedrichshafen, Germany, hosted Fakuma 2011, the largest European plastics show of the year, growing to be second in size and importance to the K show in Dusseldorf.

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Mold Simulation

Do Flow Simulation 'in the Cloud'

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.

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Carr Lane CEO Earl Walker Passes Away at 91

Worked full-time until a week before he died.

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Mold Maintenance Training Eases Molder's Growing Pains

Automation Plastics in Aurora, Ohio (automationplastics.com), is a 32-year-old custom injection molder with 50,500 ft² and 30 presses from 35 to 700 tons.

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Mold Simulation

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do Flow Simulation ‘in the Cloud’

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.

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Micromolding

Novel Molds & Machinery for Medical Molding

The combined MD&M East and Plastec East shows in N.Y.C. in June presented intriguing developments for medical injection molders.

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Hot Runners

World's Smallest Hot-Runner Controller

Measuring 97 x 61 x 30 mm and weighing 135 g, you can hold it in your hand.

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Mold Simulation

Optimize Plug Shape for Thermoforming

Software will adjust the shape to provide more uniform material thickness in the formed part

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Process Cooling