Products/Services for the Everyday Mold Builder

Photo Credit (clockwise): PFA Inc., Hasco, Creaform Inc., and Boride Engineered Abrasives

Happy New Year! What better way to start a new year than with an MMT technology roundup, featuring new or proven equipment, technologies and services that can better your company and your workforce as a whole?

For those who may not be familiar, MMT compiles a list of products that it has shared online and in print twice a month in these easy-to-read snippets. Don’t miss an opportunity to stay up to date on what’s available especially for mold builders!

This roundup has no particular theme. It covers everything from end mills for cutting aluminum, surface treatment products, increased hydraulic locking cylinder availability and much more. Click each title for the complete release.

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Mounted Abrasive Points for Mold and Die Polishing

Photo Credit: Boride Engineered Abrasives

Boride Engineered Abrasives has added Pink Mounted Points to the company’s complete line of Blue, Red and Premium Purple Points. “Mounted points can be used in many different applications for material removal, roughing, blending, deburring and finishing,” says Lesley Murphy, Boride’s marketing and sales manager.

High-Performance Cartridge Heaters Offered With Longer Connecting Cable

Photo Credit: Hasco

Hasco’s electrical cartridge heaters Z110/ with high specific heating capacity, now available with a longer connecting cable of 1,000 mm, are suitable for a variety of applications. Cartridge heaters are used to bring injection molding tools and machine components to operating temperature and keep them there

Hydraulic Locking Cylinders Come in Additional Standard Strokes

PFA Inc.’s new 70 series “mini” hydraulic locking core pull cylinder, part of the Kor-Lokside action system product line for faster mold builds, is driving more standard strokes for off-the-shelf assembly and next-day delivery.

“We are raising the bar with more stocking options to support increased demand for shorter strokes on the Kor-Lok ‘mini’ model 70 and are extending that to other sizes,” PFA vice president Mark Scanlan says.

Photo Credit: PFA Inc.

Degreaser Tackles Tough Industrial Cleaning Applications

Photo Credit: Madison Chemical

Chemical formulator Madison Chemical introduces ProClean Degreaser, a liquid, moderately alkaline, multipurpose detergent for general purpose cleaning and degreasing in challenging industrial and manufacturing environments. It is ideal for manual cleaning of machinery and equipment, amongst other things, including plastic injection molds.

Portable Metrology-Grade 3D Scanner Ideal for Large, Complex Surfaces

Photo Credit: Creaform

Creaform, a business unit of Ametek Inc. and manufacturer of portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, reveals the latest addition of its flagship HandySCAN 3D lineup, the MAX Series. The handheld line of industrial 3D scanners, designed and manufactured in Canada, offers a scanning area of approximately 1m × 1m and was developed to acquire accurate 3D measurements of any large and complex surfaces up to 15m. It is suitable for large plastic injection molds in particular.

Extended mold plate range increases customer flexibility

Hasco announces the expansion of its mold plate range to around 2,000 variants of undrilled P-plates and drilled K-plates, promoting standardization as well as increasing the flexibility requirements of modern moldmaking. Hascos says its plates offer an optimal combination of simplicity, precision and availability, achieving cost-effectiveness.

Photo Credit: Hasco

Mold Monitoring System Available to North American Customers

Photo Credit: Globeius Inc.

Globeius Inc. is now supplying Mouldpro’s Flosense 1.0, a flexible flow monitoring system that accurately monitors manifold and pressure and temperature on injection molds, to North American customers.

Affordable in addition to being flexible, Flosense 1.0 aims to improve processing control and quality. The system uses sensors to measure the differences in input and output temperatures (Delta T) and pressures (Delta P) as well as total flow rate through the system.

Solid Carbide Cutter Mills Aluminum

Walter USA has unveiled its new MC166 Advance solid carbide milling cutter, which is suitable for all industrial sectors that machine aluminum, copper, brass, bronze and magnesium-based alloys. Aluminum tooling is often used as a low-cost alternative to steel tooling for lower production quantities, making this product applicable for some moldmakers.