This article continues 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 ...

A new line of valve-gate hot runner systems was designed for applications where zero vestige and cosmetic part surfaces are essential. These systems are suitable for processing both filled and ...

With the switch to Ultrasync-E hot runner, the customer’s resin use dropped by half while cycle time shrank from 16 to 8 sec. The system has run in production for more than 3 million cycles with no ...

A company has designed a material- and timesaving hot runner specifically for injection-molding deep-draw medical device components such as pipettes and syringe barrels. The technology enables parts ...

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 ...

Running purging compound through hot runner channels can remove residual materials while leaving a minimal amount of residue behind. This ensures continued proper and efficient operation of a molding ...