Tooling
Take Time to Save Time: Five Steps in Mold Design to Reduce Back-End Troubleshooting
Westminster Tool shares how the one week it typically takes to perform these five steps in the design phase can save three weeks or more in an overall tool build.
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Cooling Geometry and the Reynolds Calculation
The original Turbulent Flow Rate Calculator worked well with a round circuit diameter, such as a drilled passage, but not as well using hydraulic diameters. Here’s how the problem was fixed.
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Vacuum System Gives Molds a Chance to Vent
When the in-house vacuum systems and tooling tricks that NMC Dynaplas usually deploys to deal with trapped gas failed, it turned to a Mold-Vac system and saw reject rates go from 44% to zero.
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Hot Runner Controls Add VPN Remote Access
Spark Industries says the new application provides a secure and easy way to connect to its hot runner controls from a remote PC—that is a device not on the same network as the HMIs.
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50 Years of Headlines … Almost
I was lucky to get an early look at many of the past half-century’s exciting developments in plastics. Here’s a selection.
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Safe and Reliable Cooling Line Coupling
Hasco says its new clean break cooling range of couplers offer one-handed quick-release operation.
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Molders’ Block: Dealing With Foreign Materials in a Hot-Runner System
Understanding plastic flow can help you understand how foreign materials move—or don’t move—through your hot-runner system.
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CPT to Offer Mold-Handling Equipment
Cincinnati Process Technologies (CPT) has partnered with German firm RUD (Aalen) to offer that company’s full line of mold-handling equipment in the U.S. and Canada.
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Clamps Allow Faster Mold Changes
Mouldpro says its Power Sliding Clamp can accommodate a range of different mold back-plate sizes and thicknesses.
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Pyramid’s Relentless Pursuit of Quality
Instilling a culture of quality, and the ability to offer tooling from a sister company, are pushing Pyramid Plastics to new heights.
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