Mold Maintenance

Design Your Tools for Moldability ... and Maintenance
Mold Maintenance

Design Your Tools for Moldability ... and Maintenance

In the initial design phase, when considering the structure and elements of the tool, are you designing them to be maintenance friendly? Canon Virginia has used this approach and preventive maintenance to make tool replacement a thing of the past. You can, too. Here’s how.

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NPE

Hot Show for Cold Jet

Dry ice blasting technology supplier Cold Jet has sold two of its show display machines at NPE2024. 

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NPE

In-Booth Mold-Cleaning Demonstrations

NPE2024: iD Additives is also featuring displays of chemical foaming agents, purging compounds, plastic mold cleaners, and water cleaning and maintenance systems.

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Mold Maintenance

American Injection Molding Institute Opens Mold Maintenance Classroom

The Beaumont subsidiary has opened the Mold Maintenance Center of Excellence classroom at its Erie, Pennsylvania, headquarters.

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Mold-Channel Cleaning Equipment Gains North American Distributor

PCS Company is now offering Polish firm FADO Group’s CoolingCare system for automated mold-channel cleaning.

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Mold Maintenance

Pressure Tester Checks Molds for Water Leaks

Globeius is offering the Mouldpro pressure tester for detecting water leaks within an injection mold’s cooling circuit. 

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Mold Maintenance

Mold Maintenance, Tooling Know How

The ability of technicians in an injection molding shop to fix, modify or upgrade a mold has a huge impact on that company’s bottom line. With this collection of content, we’ve bundled some of the very best advice on repairing and maintaining injection molding machines.

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Latest Mold Maintenance News And Updates

Mold Maintenance

AIM Institute Adds Mold Maintenance Training Courses

The American Injection Molding (AIM) Institute, part of the Beaumont Family of Companies, will now offer mold maintenance training courses, following the acquisition of that business from Moldtrax.

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Mold Maintenance

Hot Tip Sprue Cleaner Unclogs Sprue Bushings and Tips

Globeius’ Hot Tip Sprue Cleaner provides a flexible, hand-held tool for melting thermoplastics from plugged sprues and nozzles.

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Descaling Pump Cleans Heating and Cooling Circuits

Mouldpro’s compact and portable descaling pump keeps heating and cooling circuits on molds and molding machines clear of rust and limescale deposits. 

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Postprocessing

Cold Jet Builds New Cincinnati Headquarters

Cold Jet is consolidating two Cincinnati-area facilities into one location.

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High-Performance Universal Lubricant

Nanoplas says MIN-LUBE high-performance grease is designed for severe environments, as well as food and pharmaceutical related spaces.

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Mold Maintenance

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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large tonnage injection molding ROI

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System Offers 'Lights Out' Mold-Channel Cleaning & Diagnostics

New system automatically cleans mold-cooling lines—including conformal channels—removing rust and calcium, among other deposits, while simultaneously testing for leaks, measuring flow rate and applying rust inhibitor.

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best practices

How to Mount an Injection Mold

Five industry pros with more than 200 years of combined molding experience provide step-by-step best practices on mounting a mold in a horizontal injection molding machine.

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Mold Maintenance

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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Mold Maintenance

Heard of Design for Manufacture…How About Design for Maintenance?

Contract manufacturer Canon Virginia (yes, that Canon) used a webinar to introduce what it calls DFM2— Design for Manufacture and Design for Maintenance.

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New Mold Grease Smooths Operations for Troublesome Tool

Switching to a new synthetic grease helped an injection molder keep a difficult die running, eliminating unplanned downtime and cutting scrap.

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Automotive

How to Properly Maintain Aluminum Injection Molds

Aluminum and steel tools have some important differences, but also one key similarity: Routine maintenance will extend the mold’s life and boost the quality of its output.

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