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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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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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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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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-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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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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Revisiting Some Hot Runner Fundamentals
What exactly does a hot runner do? If you’ve been in the injection molding industry for any length of time, you might think the answer is obvious, but it is not.
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Overcoming Barriers to Automation Integration in Precision Moldmaking
It’s easy to imagine the advantages automation offers the moldmaking process, but it's challenging to change one’s mindset, develop a plan and invest.
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