Mold Making Technology

MAY 2, 2024

a global manufacturer of high-volume injection molding solutions, is introducing services in support of adoption of the iMFLUX process — an adaptive technology that injects material into the mold through low constant pressure — in an effort to help customers overcome the challenges of molding recycled materials.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mayer Tool & Engineering (MTE) specializes in designing and building quality injection molds for the plastics industry. From concept to completion, they handle everything from initial mold design and engineering to the final product. Photos Credit, all images: Mayer Tool & Engineering Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Plastek Group is a 68-year-old moldmaker and custom injection molder with facilities in the U.S., The company supports customers in the personal care/beauty, home care, pharmaceutical and food/beverage packaging segments. All facilities offer mold maintenance and repair. Plastek produces 20-30 injection molds/year.

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 14, 2023

This month’s focus is hot runners and mold components. In this technology roundup, discover different hot runner and mold component technologies, services and processes that can help push business to the next level or just solve common problems shops may face on a day-to-day basis.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 9, 2024

Including pocket-cut geometry in the component library ensures consistency across a design team. Whether starting fresh or reorganizing a legacy collection, here are five priorities for building an efficient CAD library to benefit both longtime and newly joining members of a mold design team. Establish a main library.

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AU Manufacturing

MAY 25, 2023

Article by Paul Runyan, VP Sales, Accumold In the world of micro molding, where precision and efficiency are paramount, the concept of boomerang projects can present significant challenges for both customers and micro molders. Well, most obviously as already mentioned, there may need to be design changes.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 22, 2023

Burteck President Pete Burgess stands amidst the shop’s arsenal of work cells essential to designing, engineering and managing plastic injection molds and continuing to grow internal part capacity. Photo Credit, all images: Burteck LLC Burteck is no stranger to increased customer demand.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

Accumold uses automated vision inspection on the press, robots, vision and laser measurement technology and noncontact white light interferometer equipment to measure micro features and surface roughness of molds and parts. This must be analyzed and reviewed early in your supplier selection journey.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 10, 2024

TK Mold & Engineering operates with a team of 25, plus seven CNC machines, multiple lathes and drills, and a five-axis sinker EDM from two facilities totaling 25,800 square feet/2,397 square meters of space in Romeo, Michigan. Photo Credit: TK Mold & Engineering Romeo, Michigan-based TK Mold & Engineering Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 6, 2023

CONFERENCE PRICING: $1,395 (includes admission to the Molding Conference) FULL CONFERENCE PASS INCLUDES: -Full access to all MoldMaking and Molding conference sessions -Networking reception -Complimentary meals and refreshments throughout the event Get the Group Rate! REGISTER TODAY! 3+ people from your shop registering?

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Photo credit, clockwise from top left: Ellwood Specialty Steel, Molder’s World, International Mold Steel and Edro Engineering and Specialty Steels. Servicing mold manufacturers with custom mold bases, unique core and cavity materials and PVD/DLC coatings is something Edro’s team take great pride in.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Photo Credit: CaptureMore LLC CaptureMore LLC , the creators of the CaptureAssets tool tracking app, has released a new feature on its platform to help mold builders get paid on time for tooling. a seamless process.

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Plastics News

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their vast experience in manufacturing injection molded plastic parts enables supply and capacity of over 200 million products annually. improving its molding output). That included a commitment to update its fleet of injection molding machines. “We The company footprint is over 1.3 Quantum had under 200 employees in 2011.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Photo Credit: (top left) DME Company, (top right) PCS Company, (bottom left) American Tool and Mold (Jeremy Scott), (bottom right) Lawrence Mold and Tool In November, MoldMaking Technology dove into an array of subjects, bridging the worlds of 3D scanning, machine monitoring and multi-cavity molds. AMBA) in 2021.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

James is general manager for Triangle Tool and Penn-Erie Tool of The Plastek Group based in Erie, Pennsylvania, managing the tooling team who builds complex injection molds for the packaging industry. Toolroom efficiency and mold procurement are two topics James Jergens is passionate about and is always willing to share his insights on.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 26, 2024

The campus features 4,000 square meters of production space dedicated to early supplier involvement (ESI), design for manufacturability (DFM), Fast-Track pilot tooling, production tool development and enhanced metrology systems. Work is expected to start on phase two in May and be completed in October.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 9, 2023

Article by Aaron Johnson, VP of Marketing and Customer Strategy, Accumold For customers looking to embrace the possibilities that exist through the micro molding of parts or components, there is a given. Micro Molding Micro molding often necessitates the accomplishment of exacting, and sometimes seemingly impossible, tolerances.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2023

Photo credit clockwise, from top left: Wisconsin Engraving, Fisa North America, Custom Etch and St. To provide a little more insight into who our product, equipment or service suppliers are before you arrive at PTXPO, the MMT team put together this special show section* that provides a snapshot of each exhibitor most relevant to moldmaking.

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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 16, 2023

Delta Mold Inc. has manufactured 17,500 unique molds over the last 44 years. With a dedicated repair program, Delta Mold services include on-site evaluations and support, as well as 24-hour repairs and fast parts delivery to keep customer operations moving forward. Photos Credit, all images: Delta Mold Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 5, 2023

NextGen Mold Technologies offers its customers quick and effective turnaround on feasibility, design, mold maintenance, engineering changes, repairs and new tooling. What follows is my recent Q&A with the company: NextGen Mold Technologies Inc. Etienne Blvd. Consistently meets sales targets.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 3, 2024

Source | Hasco Guide Element Program is Expanded To avoid damage to tool inserts and cores when closing an injection mold, Hasco introduces around 2,350 additional guide elements with a snug fit, from the Z00C to the Z11C series.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing designs and builds quality molds on time and at a competitive price. With a worldwide customer base, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, the company strives to develop strategic alliances with customers and suppliers alike. Latin America and India.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

. “How to Achieve the Best Mold Finish” — A look at factors that impact the polishability of tool steels and recommendations for obtaining a high-gloss finish. “Mold Builder Matrix Tool Inc. . “Mold Builder Matrix Tool Inc. What is moldmaking versus mold manufacturing? Case Study.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Photo Credit, all images: PCS Company The most frequently used component of a mold’s ejection system is the ejector pin, which includes variations such as sleeves and blades. However, ejector pins are not truly commodity items because there is no “one pin type fits all” solution.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2022

MoldMaking Technology provides readers a variety of technical, how-to and tip-oriented pieces for an inside look at current moldmaking equipment, services, technologies, strategies and trends, typically through the perspective of industry mold builders, OEMs, suppliers and others. Matrix Tool Inc. Matrix Tool Inc. Midgard Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For a wide range of other industry-related products, make sure to check out October’s “ Moldmaking-Related Technology Highlights ” and “ Product Innovations Pushing the Mold.” EDM EDM Machining Services Supplier Specializes in Precision Component Manufacturing Photo credit: Accu-Prompt Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 25, 2023

This month’s roundup features products, processes and services involved with additive manufacturing, maintenance and repair, mold components and more. The items are available as blanks, with pre-machined counterbores for screws, and they are designed to be cut to length for customization for each unique application.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

A series of color changes were performed at a global closure supplier on a 32-cavity mold using a YUDO Pack ISO hot runner. Photo Credit: Yudo For those struggling with color changes, YUDO recommends switching to its hot runner series designed and manufactured for this purpose. The test included four colors and five changes.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 10, 2023

NextGen Mold Technologies’ ownership is grateful to its industry partners for their support during the shop’s startup, but most importantly is thankful for the team’s unwavering commitment to success. Photo Credit, all images: NextGen Mold Technologies Inc. Who is NextGen Mold Technologies? Etienne Blvd.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

In 1996, I worked with a hot runner company with technology built like a Swiss watch whose intricacies would often fail during the injection molding process. However, these units would frequently fail and the mold would be down, waiting on replacements. My solution was a nozzle tip with integrated cooling in a one-piece design.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 22, 2023

Merit3D has steadily advanced their mass production processes and expanded their capacity, but has always had to compete with Asian manufacturers on cost and the ability to produce in mass with injection molding. For example, the first 50,000 pieces of this order were one design. Merit3D is printing 40,000 of this part per week.

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i4.0 today

APRIL 24, 2023

As a TactoTek licensee, TracXon Solutions will design and build IMSE functional films, integrating TactoTek’s design rules to enable the supply of functional films for the development of next-generation automotive platforms with smart surfaces. TactoTek helps brand owners and suppliers to flourish in the new era of smart surfaces.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 29, 2023

The sheer volume of molds for products the Consumer Division of Johnson & Johnson handles globally demands more and more data management, offering a challenge and opportunity to mold builders and molders. The Coast team, led by President Jerry Sherman, supports OEMs globally with the lifecycle management of molds.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Dürr’s new EcoSupply2 Core is a modular paint supply station that integrates all the necessary components into a compact design. Certified for the European, US, and Asian markets, the EcoSupply2 Core saves integrators and end customers significant time on engineering, assembly, and commissioning.

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

In this context “good quality” refers to them being acceptable to the customer, which may be a higher standard than simply meeting the specification. Consider a molding machine that ejects 10 plastic parts per cycle and runs at 10 cycles per hour. Visual inspection subsequently discovers 3 parts are coated with mold release.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 24, 2023

Photo Credit: Sussex IM Sussex Injection Molding Inc. , a Wisconsin-based custom plastic injection molder, has announced a series of leadership appointments to position the company for its next phase of growth. “Family is a core piece of the culture at Sussex IM and extends to our employees, customers and suppliers.

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Additive Manufacturing

MARCH 13, 2023

Zac Holcomb, CEO & Founder, Additive America Understand Yourself & Your Audience Similar to the entrepreneurial child in the classroom, who sees a target-rich environment interested in customized toys, you too must know your audience. Do you possess engineering knowledge and design capabilities? What are the technology reviews?

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