Surface Treatment

Leadership

Protect Your Tooling Investment

Lower your VOC footprint, upgrade manufacturing operations and improve the surface quality of your final products with water-based mold release and cleaning.

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IMTS: Automate Your Way out of the Skilled Labor Shortage

GF Machining Solutions is on a mission this IMTS to help industry overcome the skilled labor shortage and stay competitive at the same time. Their solution is automation.

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FAQ

Understanding Texture Repair

Developing a texture repair plan will help get a damaged mold up and running.

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Taking Polishing to the Next Level

It's called "Mold Polishing Technology 2014" and it aims to kick your polishing skills up a notch with classes for beginner, intermediate and expert mold polishers.

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Leadership

Plating and Maintaining Textured Surfaces

Communication with your texturing and plating sources is key to properly maintaining the mold surface.

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In the Trenches: The Trouble with Troubleshooting

A look at the obstacles to effective troubleshooting.

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Mold Cleaning Done Right Takes a Systematic Approach

Mold cleaning is just one part of a systematic and comprehensive approach to mold maintenance. Here’s one moldmaker’s strategy for injection mold cleaning and an explanation of where and why different techniques are employed.

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Conquering the Complex Task of Tool Optimization

Standard coatings can help, but to achieve really impressive results all the factors must be coordinated with one another—from the base material of the tool to the post treatment of the coating.

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Help Your Customers Reduce the Cost of Making Plastic Parts

How to take advantage of the properties of DLC coatings to design better molds and improve cycle times.

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Cleaning Intricate Molds

A look at non-destructive cleaning processes for complex molds that require the removal of tenacious surface contamination to ensure surface quality and longevity of precision mold and molded part surfaces.

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