LIM & LSR Molding

Toyo All-Electric Presses in a Variety of Roles

LSR, medical molding, and custom machine demos. Plus a vertical insert press.

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Automotive LED Optic Parts Run on LSR Plug-n-Play Conversion Kit

Zeiger uses Dowsil liquid silicone rubber and a Milacron-FANUC Roboshot to mold high-performance LED automotive parts.

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Multicomponent

KraussMaffei’s Integrated Molding Cells Focus on Five Technologies

High-speed machines, LSR, composites overmolding, Industry 4.0 and more showcased.

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Really Big Machines Dominate Milacron Booth

The largest machine at this NPE—or any NPE to date—is Milacron’s new 2250-ton Cincinnati machine. Not to mention the massive platen of a 6600-tonner now under construction, also on view.

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Automotive

LSR Headlamp Lens Uses Auto Cavity Balancing

Engel molds complex LSR automotive headlamp lenses with the help of a new valve-gate cold-runner system.

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Injection Molding: At NPE, U.S. Debut of Arburg’s Largest Machine Yet in a Brand-New Design

Besides a brand-new machine design, Arburg will present cells molding automotive composites, medical, LSR, and packaging applications, as well as Industry 4.0 multiprocess integration and Freeformer 3D printing.

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Injection Molding: LSR Auto Cavity Balancing, New Decorating Process & High-Speed Cap Molding at Engel’s NPE Exhibit

Engel’s 9 machine cells at NPE2018 cover medical, packaging, automotive, telectronics, and technical injection molding.

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monitoring

Injection Molding: Industry 4.0 Advances at Fakuma 2017

At October’s Fakuma fair in Germany, several injection machine suppliers will showcase their progress toward Industry 4.0 connectivity.

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Multicomponent

More Multi-Shot Molding Capacity at GW Plastics

New 2K machines will be at the heart of automated assembly cells.

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Automotive

LSR & TPE Summit Highlights Trends And New Materials

Among them: an LSR for 3D printing and low-VOC TPEs for auto interiors.

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Process Cooling
Plastics Size Reduction