Heating & Cooling

Film Extrusion

Air-Ring Upgrade Pumps Up the Output

Film processor Dallas Plastics boosts throughput by as much as 40% by retrofitting a new air ring—without the need for IBC.

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Injection Molding: Nozzle Heaters & Thermocouples: A Case of Wiring Done Wrong

Incorrect placement of wires for these components frustrates molders and costs them money to boot.

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Molds & Tooling

An Inside Look at Turbulent Flow

Years of talk about observing and studying coolant flow in a clear simulated cooling channel finally becomes a reality. Here’s how it all came together, and what it all means.

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Auxiliaries: New Auxiliaries for Blending, Loading, Cooling & Granulating

Wittmann Battenfeld showed a variety of new and modified auxiliary equipment at the Fakuma show.

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Roctool Creates Design Team to Assist Customers’ Product Development

Roctool offers help in developing products using rapid heat/cool injection molding with induction heating.

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Heating/Cooling: Hybrid System Combines Air, Fluid Cooling

The Hybrid Adiabatic Cooling System from AEC, New Berlin, Wisc. promises savings in water, energy, and maintenance while providing process cooling for nearly in any environment.

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Heat/Cool Molding Gets A Workout at Fakuma 2017

KraussMaffei will demonstrate extremely fine mold-surface replication and the wide range of decorative effects possible without secondary processes using RocTool heat/cool molding technology.

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Injection Molding: Industry 4.0 Advances at Fakuma 2017

At October’s Fakuma fair in Germany, several injection machine suppliers will showcase their progress toward Industry 4.0 connectivity.

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Molds & Tooling

Leading-Edge Molding Technology Installed at ORNL

Roctool’s induction-powered heating/cooling equipment to further development of composites.

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Materials: Cycle Time: Science vs. Rules of Thumb—Part 2

Understanding cooling—how a given material develops modulus as it solidifies—requires access to data that provides some insight into the relationship between modulus and temperature. Dynamic mechanical analysis is a helpful tool.

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