OFTERING, Austria—Elmet, a manufacturer of equipment for silicone and rubber parts, has released a new, all-electric cold runner for liquid silicone rubber injection molding. The Smartshot E cold ...

Wittmann Battenfeld molded blue medical fittings on an all-electric EcoPower 160/350 machine equipped with a 16-cavity cold runner mold tool from Nexus with Timeshot valve gate control so that amounts ...

Quick Shot systems include a manifold with an insulating plate, hot runner nozzles in 50- or 80-mm lengths, and wiring. A compromise between a complete hot half and an unwired system, the moldmaker ...

Cycle time is the primary cost measure of the molding process, and cooling represents about 80% of the molding cycle (see Figure 1). The thicker the part, the longer the cycle time. However, the ...

Lossburg, Germany — Arburg GmbH + Co. KG featured three liquid silicone rubber demonstrations at its annual Technology Days open house. All involved two-component molding, with two LSR/LSR ...

This article concludes the Troubleshooter’s Rules of Thumb series. Bob Hatch is manager of technical service and customer support for Prime Alliance, the Des Moines-based resin distributor. Before ...