The concept of lean manufacturing is generally reserved for the molding process, but Tradesco Mold Ltd. is working to extend these concepts of waste reduction to the tool. "Increased flexibility in ...

At the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany, Netstal will present what company officials are calling a world's first: injection-compression molding on stack molds. Fakuma is set for Oct. 13-17 in ...

StackTeck announced an unconventional application for a big stack mold with Quick Product Change (QPC) features. This mold runs 2000 tons of production in a 1000-ton injection molding machine, in a ...

Brampton, Ontario — StackTeck Systems Ltd., a manufacturer of multi-cavity, high-volume production molds, says it has developed a new approach for fast mold deliveries that uses automated design ...

SAN POLO DI PIAVE, Italy—HRSflow has developed a special low-height actuator for hot runner valve gate systems, specifically for the construction of stack molds. The firm said the advantage of its ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

The machines create strong, lightweight plastic pallets. Pallateer plastic-pallet-molding systems use stacked molds for higher throughput in a smaller footprint. The PM-2 produces up to 450,000 single ...

Because of their compactness, such molds can be run in smaller presses. For example, a 48+48 stack mold for lightweight bottle caps measures only 285 mm face to face, so it can run in a 200-ton press.