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Mold, Hot Runner, Digitization and Process Monitoring at K 2022

The Barnes Group’s Molding Solutions division companies will highlight new mold and hot runner technologies at its own booth and at several machinery partners during K 2022.

Barnes Opens Customer Technology Center in Germany

Located within portfolio company Foboha’s Haslach facility, the center features an Engel injection machine, Foboha tools and leading technology from other Barnes Group businesses, including Synventive, Gammaflux and Priamus.

Barnes Group Names New Head for Molding Solutions Unit

Jessica Poliner has been named president of the unit, which includes Synventive, Thermoplay, männer, FOBOHA, Priamus, and Gammaflux, replacing Norbert Scheid who retired.

Barnes Group Announces Restructuring

The company, whose portfolio companies include Synventive, Thermoplay, männer, Foboha, Priamus and Gammaflux, will cut approximately 400 jobs globally.

Tooling: Combined K 2019 Booth for Hot Runner, Molds and Process Control Brands

Barnes Group will collocate its Molding Solutions strategic business unit in a combined booth for the first time at K 2019, with FOBOHA, Gammaflux, männer, Priamus, Synventive and Thermoplay sharing a stand.

Barnes Group Acquires Robotics Firm

Private-equity group acquires Gimatic S.r.l.

NPE2018 Tooling: Molds Join the Industry 4.0 Conversation

At NPE2018, multiple companies displayed mold monitors that would allow the tool in an injection molding cell to “talk” to other equipment and remote computers.

Injection Molding: News in Sensors, Quality Monitoring, And Quick Mold Change

Priamus debuts simple on-machine quality monitor plus new styles of cavity sensors and a quick connect for cavity sensors in quick mold changes.

Block Cavities and Keep Molding

It goes against conventional wisdom, but molding with blocked cavities can be done while maintaining quality with the help of appropriate in-cavity sensors and process-control software.

INJECTION MOLDING: New Monitors, Controls, Sensors

New capabilities include the OPC-UA interface for Industry 4.0 communications.

Barnes Group Acquires FOBOHA Molds Business

Moldmaker is now a sister company of mold-sensor and hot-runner suppliers.

Injection Molding at K 2013: Doing More with Less

More productivity with less energy consumption and capital investment; more operations in the machine or manufacturing cell with less time, labor, energy, and capital—these were the common themes of injection molding exhibits at October’s K 2013 show.

News in Injection Molding Control & Monitoring from NPE2012

There were also several interesting developments in injection molding control and monitoring systems at this past April’s NPE2012 exhibition in Orlando, Fla.

Achieve Process Transparency with In-Mold Cavity Sensors

In plastic injection molding, the primary objective is to manufacture dimensionally and structurally consistent parts, independent of the molding machine being used.

Injection Molding: Speed, Automation & Integration

Hot buttons at the show will be multi-component molding, in-mold labeling/decorating (IML/IMD), in-mold assembly, medical molding, liquid silicone rubber (LSR), micro-molding, and high-speed packaging.

Unbalanced? No Shortage of Ways to Fix Uneven Filling of Multi-Cavity Molds

The accepted ground rule for balancing melt flow in multi-cavity injection molds is to achieve equal flow distance from the injection point to each cavity.

Thermoset Molder Closes the Loop On Mold Temperature Control

Vernay Laboratories Inc. of Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a major producer of precision rubber fluid-control components at four plants in the U.S. and Europe. “In rubber molding, the temperature of the mold is the heart of the process, so maintaining a uniform thermal profile across the tool is vital,” says Ankur Maheshwari, program manager at the Griffin, Ga., plant, Vernay’s biggest in North America.The company was having a big problem controlling temperature uniformity in production of a special gasket seal used in printer cartridges.

What to See at NPE 2006: Control and Monitoring

Web-based or wireless monitoring, combined temperature and pressure sensing, cost-saving modularity, and better ways to display and report process and production data are some of the advances in control and monitoring that will be presented at this year’s NPE.One development that could have the broadest implications is Watlow’s new EZ-Zone ST modular “integrated architecture” for temperature control loops.