Tooling

Durex Industries, a designer and manufacturer of heaters, temperature sensors, and controls, announced an expansion of its custom cartridge heater capabilities with the introduction of its new advanced Magnum family of cartridge heaters.

By threading the nozzles directly into the hot runner manifold, a new hot runner nozzle offers a leak-proof design without critical stack-up dimensions that must be maintained.  The 09E nozzle, for use with Synventive Molding Solutions' line of 'Plug 'n Play' unitized hot runner systems, has thermal- and valve-gate options, including a 9-mm internal flow bore, with 30-mm mold cut-out. Synventive says the nozzle is ideal for medium-sized part applications with maximum shot weights of 250g per nozzle.

By venting all four corners of the mold, extrusion blowmolding toolmaker fhw-moulds GmbH (Bottrop, Germany) says its tooling for a 20-liter jerry can presents a special solution for removing air from extrusion molds, ultimately improving cycle time and surface appearance.

New valve gate hot runner molding technology precisely controls each valve pin's position, acceleration, velocity, and stroke, offering potential benefits to multimaterial applications, sequential/cascading molding, and premium cosmetic surfaces.

Quick-Coupler-type water jumpers from DME Molding Supplies (Madison Heights, MI) can plumb a mold for cooling using significantly less mold space, according to DME. They can either be embedded in the mold itself or run on top of the mold.

What's reported to be one of the smallest manually configurable temperature control and water distribution devices with electronic monitoring on the market has debuted from injection machine builder Engel ( Schwertberg/Austria).

Wabash MPI (Wabash, IN ) has debuted an upper tilting platens for easy mold access on its range of compression molding presses. The tilting platen allows for the mold to be cleaned as needed, in some cases between each cycle, dependent upon the application. Applications needing frequent cleaning may include silicone molding or other molding applications requiring access to intricate mold cavities.

A new surface pressure indicating sheet from Sensor Products Inc. (Madison, NJ) is said to improve yields and reduces defects in the injection molding process by minimizing flash, shorts, and burns, among other defects. The primary purpose of Mold-Align is to indicate mold face planarity. When placed between mold halves that are compressed together, the material instantaneously changes color revealing how pressure is being distributed between the mold faces.

New for the Moldex3D computer assisted engineering software is an interface with Siemens' NX software, that company's flagship digital product development software. Called eDesignSYNC for NX, the new interface serves as the bridge allowing NX users to access Moldex3D/eDesign from within the NX environment.

Why invest in an expensive forklift for handling lifting tasks on the shop floor when the Shop Lift from A&H Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. (Cerritos, CA) can raise tools weighing up to 600 lbs. for an upfront investment of $3350?