The concept of lean manufacturing is generally reserved for the molding process, but Tradesco Mold Ltd. is working to extend these concepts of waste reduction to the tool. "Increased flexibility in ...

At the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany, Netstal will present what company officials are calling a world's first: injection-compression molding on stack molds. Fakuma is set for Oct. 13-17 in ...

Brampton, Ontario — StackTeck Systems Ltd., a manufacturer of multi-cavity, high-volume production molds, says it has developed a new approach for fast mold deliveries that uses automated design ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

SAN POLO DI PIAVE, Italy—HRSflow has developed a special low-height actuator for hot runner valve gate systems, specifically for the construction of stack molds. The firm said the advantage of its ...

Based on customer feedback, D-M-E re-engineered assemblies for its new Helical Gear Centering Devices for stack molds in strong but lightweight Aircraft-grade aluminum, easing installation. D-M-E's ...

Because of their compactness, such molds can be run in smaller presses. For example, a 48+48 stack mold for lightweight bottle caps measures only 285 mm face to face, so it can run in a 200-ton press.

The machines create strong, lightweight plastic pallets. Pallateer plastic-pallet-molding systems use stacked molds for higher throughput in a smaller footprint. The PM-2 produces up to 450,000 single ...

“Go faster” and “integrate more functions” look to be the guiding principles of many new injection molding developments to be shown at K 2013 in Dusseldorf this October. Those will certainly be major ...