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Molds & Tooling

Tooling: Rotary Cooling Device for Demolding Rotating Cores

Compact rotary cooling units provide a cost-efficient means to integrate rotating cores into molds, while providing greater cooling for faster cycles.

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Mold Maintenance

Tooling: How to Properly Size, Gates, Runners and Sprues, Part 2

Get the sprue, runner and gate sizes close to ideal the first time around.

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Covid-19 Pushes Manufacturers into Emergency Ventilator Component Supply

The pressing and evolving need for ventilators to help treat the most severe cases of Covid-19 has revealed both the complexity of the supply chain for such machines and the nimbleness of suppliers.

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Tooling Know-How

Part 1: How to Properly Size Gates, Runners and Sprues

Get the sprue, runner and gate sizes close to ideal the first time around—without spending a lot of time on extremely complicated formulas.

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Molds & Tooling

California Moldmaker Remains Open During Coronavirus Shelter in Place Order

M.R. Mold & Engineering, after consulting legal counsel, has determined its work is in support of “critical manufacturing”, which is exempt from the edict.

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Injection Molding: Mold Mover Made More Ergonomic

RUD’s newest Tool Mover reduced the height of the working surface on the smallest model to 595 mm (about 2 ft).

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Molds & Tooling

Tooling: Latch Lock for 3-Plate Molds

An alternative to round- or flat-latch models, this new lock’s simple mechanical function results in a compact design and reduced installation machining.

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industry 4.0

Bigger, Faster, Lower-Cost Robots at K 2019

Three, four, five and six axes; high speed and high payload capacities; low-cost models; and collaborative robots made news at K. There were also QMC systems and AGVs.

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K 2019 Report: More Control, Faster Ordering for Molds, Hot Runners

Online monitoring of existing systems and configuration and ordering of new molds were featured at K 2019, as were numerous advances in valve-gate controls.

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Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling