A joint project between three German companies has created a temperature control system in which CO2 replaces H20, according to supplier gwk.

When Weha was looking to eliminate a series of drawbacks involving the manufacture of a sealing ring, the company turned to Heitec Heisskanaltechnik. The experts developed a mould concept using hot runner nozzles for side gating. By Bastian Schreck, Heitec.

Regardless of rapid developments in materials technologies, die and mould makers still rely heavily on tool steel. Rolf Krusenbaum, sales director for plastic mould steels at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke, notes that another type of steel has been expanding its market footprint.

Canada/China – Leading industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, Husky Injection Molding Systems, has been awarded the Ringier 2017 Technology Innovation Award for its Hyper-Sync system.

Mold-Masters says its Iris co-injection system is well-suited to the beverage, caps and closures, food container and medical industries, and the company’s proprietary hot runners play a central role in the technology.

There are high demands for optimisation in cutting manufacturing. Productivity needs to increase and the quality needs to improve or at least stay at the same level with reduced costs. But where in the process chain is the best place to start?

HSB Normalien will showcase among its multiple offerings, the company's locating rings with neck and screw holes, the HSB 100 M and HSB 500 M series.

Germany - Small batches and mass production are somewhat incompatible, because the lower the product price, the more important are high production numbers. While additive processes are not ready for mass production yet, they may be able to mitigate these conflicting interests.

UK - Machining tool steel die nests is a complex operation at the best of times. A particularly intricate job used to be a loss-making operation for a UK-based toolmaking firm. But now the purchase of a 5-axis machine is said to save enough time to make the process profitable.

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