Tooling

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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Tooling

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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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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Molds & Tooling

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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plant tour

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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Hot Runners

System Checks Hot Runner Heaters, Sensors

Meusburger’s new profiTEMP TM hot runner diagnosis device is especially designed for electrical testing of heaters and sensors, as well as preheating the hot runner.

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High-Temperature, Low-Flow Indicator for Mold-Cooling Applications

Burger & Brown Engineering has released a new high-temperature low-flow indicator to monitor flow inside critical, restricted cooling paths such as those with bubblers or baffles.

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Molds & Tooling

Internally Heated Single-Zone Hot Sprue Bushings

Melt Design says the new Equatemp hot sprue bushings provide better melt flow control for more consistent molding.

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Tooling

Drilled Thermal Insulating Sheets Come Pre-Machined as Standard

Hasco says the the thermal insulating sheets prevent uncontrolled heat dissipation and feature pre-drilled holes for guide pillars and clamp-plate screws, as well as centering and fixing holes.

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Blending & Dosing