Unbeatable duo for practical small series

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Using the Clever Mold System in combination with the small series mould opens up innovative solutions to low-cost small production runs through rapid mould changes on all standard injection moulding machines. Undercuts, core pullers, slides and hot runners can be directly integrated in the CMS and are available as an adaptor solution for all K3600/… small series moulds. Employing this duo, customers are able to consistently make small series moulds in a simplified and reduced form, thus saving time and money from the design stage right through to the application of the mould on the injection moulding machine. This new mould philosophy is based on the clever separation of the clamping system and the mould.

Co-operation with customer on innovative solution

Michael Lundbech, a longstanding Hasco customer, from Lundbech intelligent tooling in Ringsted (Denmark), came up with an idea. Wishing to achieve a more homogeneous temperature distribution in injection moulds, avoid hot spots, reduce the installation space and, not least, achieve time and money savings, he was thinking about a design solution that would allow cooling channels to cross on a single plane. Working together with the team at Hasco, it proved possible to further develop and implement this solution.

The idea behind the Hasco Cool Cross Z99/... had been born. The outcome – a small plastic element that is fitted at the crossing point in the mould – offers the user completely new options for designing the cooling system in the injection mould. Employing the Cool Cross Z99/... it is possible to have independent cooling channels crossing each other flexibly and inexpensively on the same plane without any major manufacturing outlay. A combination of transverse and vertical holes is possible. It is possible to get by with thinner plates and hence fit shorter nozzle, guide and fastening elements, thus achieving cost reductions.

But before this ingenious little part was produced in series, the first step was to manufacture prototypes. In a joint research project that tested standard prototyping methods, the A8500/… and K3600/… duo was able to demonstrate its potential.

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The first Cool Cross prototypes were produced with a combination of the Clever Mold System and the small series mould, in conjunction with interchangeable inserts produced by different methods. The advantage for the customer is the simplicity of the concept. A proven quick-changeable mould, including cooling, guides and all the connections is combined with a comparatively small insert that can be produced in just a short period of time. In this way, the time and cost outlay for modifications or variants can be kept within limits.

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