Hot Runners for Plastics Production

A hot runner system is an assembly of heated components—hot halves, nozzles and gates and—that inject plastic into the cavities of an injection mold. The system usually includes a heated manifold and a number of heated nozzles.

Advanced Valve Gate Solution for Multicavity Line Saves Time, Optimizes Performance
Injection Molding

Advanced Valve Gate Solution for Multicavity Line Saves Time, Optimizes Performance

Oerlikon HRSflow highlights an advancement for its Multiflow HRS multicavity line, the EYEgate HRS, a valve gate hot runner system solution.  

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ESSENTIAL READING

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Optimizing Pack & Hold Times for Hot-Runner & Valve-Gated Molds

Using scientific procedures will help you put an end to all that time-consuming trial and error. Part 1 of 2.

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color

How to Start a Hot-Runner Mold That Has No Tip Insulators

Here's a method to assist with efficient dark-to-light color changes on hot-runner systems that are hot-tipped.

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Hot Runners: How to Maintain Heaters, Thermocouples, and Controls

I conclude this three-part examination of real-world problems and solutions involving hot runners by focusing on heaters, thermocouples, and controls. Part 3 of 3.

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Hot Runners

Hot Runners: Truths. Myths, Overlooked Areas: Part 2

Here’s a view from the trenches of a tooling manager who, over 30 years, has experienced the joys and pains of using virtually every type of hot runner on the market. Part 2.

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Hot Runners

How to Optimize Pack & Hold Times for Hot-Runner & Valve-Gated Molds

Applying a scientific method to what is typically a trial-and-error process. Part 2 of 2.

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Hot Runners: A View from the Bottom Up

Addressing hot-runner benefits, improvements, and everyday issues from the perspective of decades of experience with probably every brand on the market. Part 1 of 2.

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Latest Hot Runners News And Updates

Packaging

PET Preform Hot Runner System Reduces Stack Height

Mold-Masters has cut the stack height of its PET-Series hot runner system from 300 mm to 260 mm, while maintaining a 3-plate design and the advantages therein.

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Hot Runners

New Hot Runner Temperature Control

Oerlikon HRSflow’s T-Flow HRS control has launched with three models that are configurable to multiples of six zones.

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Hot Runners

3D Printed Hot Runner Nozzles, Pressure Pads Provide Reliable Temperature Handling

NPE2024: Witosa GmbH, through its distributor DMS, brings the Monolith hot runner nozzle and hardened steel Energy Blocker to the U.S., enabling the reduction in time, costs and improvements in product quality.

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NPE

Plug-and-Play Modular Hot Runner Controller

NPE2024: Spark Industries’ patent-pending MOD24 hot runner controller offers unlimited plug-and-play of 6-zone hot runner control modules.

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NPE

Movable Tempering Stamp Can Eliminate Surface Defects

NPE2024: Incoe says Heat-Inject Technology introduces localized heat to remove weld or knit lines, or help melt flow into hinges, thin walls, delicate geometries or microstructures.

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NPE

Hot Runner Temperature and Mold Motion Controllers Debut

NPE2024: Hot runner systems, temperature and motion controllers, an auxiliary injection unit and a gate seal are among Mold-Masters’ show features.

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NPE

Hasco Marks a Century in Mold Components, Mold Bases and Hot Runners with Cake and New Technologies

NPE2024: Cake, drinks and the unveiling of a new North American website providing online ordering in the U.S. and Canada for the first time are just some of the things happening at Hasco’s booth as it brings its year-long centennial celebration to Orlando.

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Hot Runners

How to Start a Hot-Runner Mold That Has No Tip Insulators

Here's a method to assist with efficient dark-to-light color changes on hot-runner systems that are hot-tipped.

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Hot Runners: How to Maintain Heaters, Thermocouples, and Controls

I conclude this three-part examination of real-world problems and solutions involving hot runners by focusing on heaters, thermocouples, and controls. Part 3 of 3.

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Hot Runners: Truths. Myths, Overlooked Areas: Part 2

Here’s a view from the trenches of a tooling manager who, over 30 years, has experienced the joys and pains of using virtually every type of hot runner on the market. Part 2.

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best practices

How to Optimize Pack & Hold Times for Hot-Runner & Valve-Gated Molds

Applying a scientific method to what is typically a trial-and-error process. Part 2 of 2.

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Molds & Tooling

Hot Runners: A View from the Bottom Up

Addressing hot-runner benefits, improvements, and everyday issues from the perspective of decades of experience with probably every brand on the market. Part 1 of 2.

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FAQ: Hot Runners

First, think of it as an extension of the molding machine itself. Its purpose is to keep the plastic molten at a proper temperature on its path to the cavity. So basically it’s just a piece of heated steel with a round channel in it for the melt to flow through. Ideally, this channel would be running at the exact temperature on the controller, free of obstacles such as dead spots or components that could create hangups and cause scrap issues with color changes or contamination.