Tooling

Everything You Wanted to Know About Mold Maintenance

 Welcome to a new column dedicated to improving efficiency in your tool room and the health and performance of your molds.

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Mold Analysis Gets Faster, Easier, Smarter

On Dec. 28, Moldflow Corp. began shipping a major new release of its flagship injection mold simulation software, Moldflow Plastics Insight 6.0.

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Family-Run Molder and Mold Maker Prospers for More Than 50 Years

 How does a small, family-owned custom molder remain competitive for 53 years without multiple plants, offshore clients, a specialized market niche, or unique leading-edge technology?

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Hybrid Prototyping Process Combines Casting and Machining

 A new rapid-prototyping technique combines casting with CNC milling in a novel way to create prototype parts fas ter than conventional rapid prototyping approaches—and it all happens in one machine.

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50 Ideas That Changed Plastics

Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.

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Rapid Tooling: It's Faster in Molding, Too

Rapid tooling technology is not just about speedy moldmaking. Now it also signifies higher productivity in molding. The latest RT technology achieves dramatically faster cooling and stands up to long-run molding, as well.

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Computer Simulation Gives Blow Molder an Edge

Spotting trouble before it starts is ingrained in the company culture at fuel-tank maker Vitec LLC.

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K 2004 Wrap-Up on Injection Molding: Spotlight on Electric And Multi-Component Machines

Molders were treated to a trove of injection machinery introductions geared toward applications from micro-molding to packaging to large parts.

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Know Your Mold Coatings

Nowadays, there's a lot more to mold wear and corrosion protection than just hard chrome and electroless nickel. Some tools need more protection or more lubricity than they can offer. Here's one expert's guide to the newer options.

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Simulation Spots Trouble Before It Starts

Blow molding has been one of the slowest processing sectors to adopt simulation software as a design and troubleshooting tool.

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