Tool Steel
Materials Prices: Short-Term Pain May Result in Long-Term Gain
At first glance, the accompanying chart of steel prices tells a disturbing story.
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Choose the Right Cutting Tool Strategy to Machine Efficiently and Affordably
A look at a couple current cutting tool technology trends: aluminum machining: face milling and mold steel machining: high-feed milling.
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Mold Base Tooling Improved with Stainless Holder Steel Development
In the early 1980s, leading mold base manufacturing companies challenged the specialty steel suppliers to develop an improved pre-hardened stainless holder steel for use in mold base tooling.
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New Developments in P/M Steels for Moldmaking
Highly alloyed steels are difficult to manufacture using conventional steel melting methods.
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Laser Welding Improves Surface Finish and Yields Less Rework
With laser welding, the tool steel doesn't harden, soften or crack the area. It keeps distortion and weld sink down.
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Prehardened Stainless Mold Steel Optimized by Nitrogen Alloying
To prevent the negative effects of microstructural inhomogenities in some tool steel—such as on machinability, polishability, corrosion resistance and mechanical properties—a new alloy has been created with a more homogeneous microstructure.
Read MoreHow Stable Are the Processes in Your Plant?
RJG, Inc. (Traverse City, MI) has assembled the Process Stability Dashboard to manage quality for all molds that run in your plant whether they have in-cavity sensors or not.
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Mold Design Tips for Automation
Automation suppliers can assist mold manufacturers with proper mold design and engineering before cutting steel for new molds. Hot runner molds, cold runner molds, box filling, insert molding, stack molds and multi-component molding are areas that can be built and managed more inexpensively, reliably and simpler.
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Development of a New Mold Base Stainless Steel
Due to the intensive machining practices that must be performed on mold bases, if machining time and costs can be reduced, significant savings can be realized. A premuim free machining stainless holder steel has been developed that has optimized chemistry and processing, which lead to greatly improved machinability as well as other important properties.
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Steel-Supported, Aluminum Injection Mold Frame Exhibits Durability, Strength
A mold frame that incorporates steel support pillars has all of the thermal benefits of aluminum matched with the durability of a steel mold.
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