Molds & Tooling
Cycle Counter Line Expands
Progressive Components has introduced its CounterView cycle counter in left- and right-hand orientations, as well as a new high-temperature counter.
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Tool Separator Eases Mold Service and Maintenance
RUD’s Tool Separator is said to require only five minutes and one person to complete the entire mold separation process.
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Injection Molding Simulation Platform Launches
Altair says its Inspire Mold program provides a simulation-driven approach for injection molding design for manufacturing (DFM).
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'10 Things We’re Seeing in Machine Shops Right Now'
Metalworking shops and plastics plants make for interesting comparisons of their responses to the COVID-19 challenge.
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Injection Molding: Updated Mold-Filling Analysis Is 30% Faster
Coretech System of Taiwan says its new Moldex3D 2020 solver averages 30% faster calculations than the preceding R17 version with the same computing hardware.
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Trade in Molds for Plastics Manufacturing: A V-shaped Recovery
U.S. exports of plastics molds in June were 36% above June 2019, and imports were up 4% from a year ago. Both exports and imports of molds are back to pre-COVID-19 levels. This could be an indication that demand from plastics processors has picked up in both domestic and export markets since the lockdown in March.
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Graham Partners Assembles Medical Molding Group
Investment firm has funded a new conglomerate of three medical injection molders.
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Tooling: Back to Basics On Die Springs--Part 2
Follow these steps for proper die-spring selection and installation.
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Injection Molding: Improved Flatness Analysis in Upgraded CAE Molding Simulation Package
More precise and quantitative flatness analysis of injection molded parts is possible with the new version of Moldex3D CAE molding simulation.
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