OFTERING, Austria—Elmet, a manufacturer of equipment for silicone and rubber parts, has released a new, all-electric cold runner for liquid silicone rubber injection molding. The Smartshot E cold ...

Strongsville, Ohio — The North American market for all-electric presses is promising — and it has been for an awfully long time. Hydraulic injection molding machines still account for about half the ...

Cycle time is the primary cost measure of the molding process, and cooling represents about 80% of the molding cycle (see Figure 1). The thicker the part, the longer the cycle time. However, the ...

Lossburg, Germany — Arburg GmbH + Co. KG featured three liquid silicone rubber demonstrations at its annual Technology Days open house. All involved two-component molding, with two LSR/LSR ...

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Milacron Holdings Corp. (NYSE: MCRN), a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry announces vital product offerings that will be ...

Introducing the Mold-Masters ThinPAK-Series hot runner, the most advanced hot runner system specifically engineered for producing exceptionally high-quality thin wall packaging products.

Mold-Masters says its IRIS nozzle is very compact—the same as a normal nozzle—and is very easy to service, allowing replacement of the tip, seal, and thermocouple as in a normal hot-runner nozzle.

This article concludes the Troubleshooter’s Rules of Thumb series. Bob Hatch is manager of technical service and customer support for Prime Alliance, the Des Moines-based resin distributor. Before ...