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Mold Materials

Stainless Steel Series Benefits Blow Mold and Vac Form Applications

Molder’s World Inc.’s stainless steel mold material, Vortex is designed to ensure a smooth part with the measured release of gases during the molding process, providing better detail on the part and faster part production.  

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SLA AM System Creates Production-Grade Parts

IMTS 2024: The PSLA 270 is engineered to deliver larger end-use parts more rapidly than similar platforms, bringing advantages for a breadth of industrial and health care applications.

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Machining

Surface Grinders Provide Smooth Table Tracking

IMTS 2024: Okamoto highlights its ACC-SA1 MDI controlled Saddle Type surface grinders, designed with three grinding cycles and a rigid wheelhead assembly to enable high-precision grinding and extended machine life. 

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EOS Expands Materials Portfolio with Moldmakers in Mind

IMTS 2024: EOS North America highlights its latest industrial 3D printing solutions, including its upgraded portfolio of metal additive manufacturing (AM) solutions designed with industrial AM production in mind for industries such as moldmaking.

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Mold Material Enables Additive Manufacturing Capabilities for Tooling

Uddeholm USA features its mold material Corrax as the first additive manufacturing (AM) powder made for tooling. Corrax is a stainless steel made for AM with corrosion resistance and polishability.

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Cutting Tools

QFM Tooling System Offers Solutions for Mold and Die Industry

Cole Carbide Industries Inc. highlights the Quad Force Machining (QFM) tooling system from Millstar to provide maximum flexibility by way of its innovative hybrid geometry to provide a solution for diverse application challenges that face the mold and die industry.

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Machining

Seven-Axis Multifunction Machines Increase Accuracy for Mold Production

IMTS 2024: Cheto Corporation SA highlights its five up to seven-axis multifunction machines to increase accuracy and decrease the costs of complex mold production. 

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Machining

TUDX Head Enables Automatic, Interchangeable Spindle Capabilities

IMTS 2024: FPT North America Inc. highlights its TUDX head as an interchangeable, cost-effective design that includes features such as the bi-rotary axes to stay with the Z-axis RAM and the spindle that automatically interchanges with different applications.

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EDM

EDM-3 Graphite Enables Moldmakers to Meet Strict Precision Requirements

IMTS 2024: Entegris Poco Materials highlights its EDM-3 graphite, known for exceptional strength, wear resistance and fine surface finish characteristics and thus an ideal solution for moldmakers’ most demanding applications.

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IMTS

Zeiss Upgrades CMMs to Support Sustainability

IMTS 2024: Zeiss highlights upgrades to its Prismo family of CMMs, designed to reduce power consumption and support sustainability.

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Mold Materials

Large Aluminum Mold Plate Sizes Enable Machinability for Moldmakers

Vista Metals highlights one of the largest aluminum mold plate sizes available on the market, its Duramold-5 Aluminum Mold Plate produced in super slab sizes for high strength to weight ratios, machinability and a virtually porosity-free structure to meet moldmakers’ critical surface finish requirements.

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Cutting Tools

Big Daishowa Cutting Tools Enable High-Efficiency Machining

IMTS 2024: Big Daishowa highlights its Big-Plus BBT series of diameter cutting tools, with extended length and optimized performance for grooving and shoulder milling.

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