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Cutting Tools

Threaded Inserts for Metal Ensure Secure Fit When Repairing, Replacing Worn-Out Threads

E-Z Lock (Solid Wall) threaded inserts by E-Z Lock come in assortment and installation kits, enabling moldmakers to efficiently repair and reinforce threaded holes.  

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NPE

Hot Runner Controller Made to Integrate Into Molding Machines

NPE2024: The MOD24, by Fast Heat by Spark Industries, gives mold builders and toolrooms unlimited plug and play while combining the benefits of independent and integrated hot runner controls.

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Mold Components

Tool Guide System Offers High Precision

NPE2024: Agathon Machine Tools showcases its latest tool guide system, the Guide System Plus, which provides main tool guiding, but also the fine centering between mold halves.

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Cutting Tools

1:4 Speed Multipliers Available to Live Tool Lathes

Distributed through Platinum Tooling, Heimatec speed multipliers are now available in 24,000 max. styles for North American customers.

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NPE

Stack Mold System Combines Fast Injection With High Process Repeatability

NPE2024: Primarily designed for thin-wall packaging applications, the patent-pending mold design by Oerlikon HRSflow brings consistency, simplified maintenance and assembly and a sustainable materials focus.

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Machining

Gundrill Production Cells Boost Precision, Output

The Unisig R-4-2-2 production cell uses a smart conveyor to simultaneously load four barrel blanks into a UNI four-spindle gundrilling machine.

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Mold Materials, 3D Printing Technologies for Next-Gen Moldmaking

As moldmaking advances, so too do the materials and processes involved in their efficient production, including these latest mold materials and 3D printing technologies.  

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3D Printing

Tool Steel Improves the Efficiency of Molds, Injection Molding Using AM

AddUp partners with Swiss Steel Group to introduce Printdur HCT, enabling manufacturers to significantly reduce production cycles using conformal cooling channels.

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Xact Metal, Uddeholm Partner to Offer Corrax Tool Steel Powder

Moldmakers and molders will have access to a mold steel capable of an A1 surface finish post-polishing, supporting the industry’s expansion into metal 3D printing.

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Mold Materials

Tool Steel Alternative to S7-Based Molds

NPE2024: International Mold Steel showcases its DCMX steel as an alternative to S7, providing mold builders uniform hardness for even machinability and clean welds and other benefits.

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