Hot Runners
How to Use a Conformally Cooled Sprue Bushing to Reduce Cycle Time and Ease Cost Pressures
Use of a new conformally cooled sprue bushing helped solve Midwest Mold Services’ problem with a big sprue that was hard to cool and preventing faster ejection times.
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Additive Tooling Goes Beyond Conformally Cooled Inserts to Simplify the Mold Build Process
Three ways that additive tooling is moving past conformal cooling to bring speed and efficiency to the overall tooling process.
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Only an Educated Buyer Can Reap the Rewards
Choosing the right electrically-actuated hot runner system is important, so is asking the right questions upfront to better understand what you are buying. It’s easy to be sold on all the fantastic benefits you could see, while looking passed the downsides of the system you are choosing.
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Workflow and Quality Count
A recent visit to a hot runner systems and solutions provider proved the importance of workflow and quality to a production facility’s layout.
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How Electric Actuation Benefits the Mold Supply Chain
Hot runner valve gating has always offered pneumatic and hydraulic actuation, but today electric is an alternative to consider.
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Partnership Advances Process Control Using In-Mold Sensors
RJG and HRSflow have partnered up to provide an advanced process control solution, specifically for servo valve gate technology or independent cavity control.
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MMT Readers Top-Viewed Content for October 2019
Looking at all the content MoldMaking Technology has presented in October 2019, here are the top 10 most-viewed features, blogs and videos.
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Throwback Thursday: Hot Runner Supplement 2017
This Throwback Thursday is all hot runner focused, with features from our special supplement issue geared toward helping readers with common challenges.
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K Show Report: Next-Level Efficiency and Control
With a show as big as K 2019 with more than 3,000 exhibitors from 63 nations, you may think that identifying a theme among all the technology would be difficult, but after all is said and done, two words come to mind: efficiency and control.
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Combining Injection Molding and Extrusion Technology for High-Speed Injection
A new nozzle design developed by an Austrian-based mold builder abandons the usual round opening for a wide slit to allow for up to 25% faster cycle times, lower shear and injection pressure.
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