Article: New ideas and improved standard products from Mold-Masters.(Injection Moulding)

MOLD-MASTERS has applied new thinking to a number of aspects of hot runner production, producing new techniques on the edge of commercialisation.

Colour change time can be halved with a new melt optimising gate--available as a valve gate or a tip gate--which has a symmetrical and pressure balanced design to ensure that the first colour melt is completely and rapidly washed out by the second colour. Incorporation of a pressure chamber in the nozzle is said to overcome problems with cleaning out liquid colorants.

Multi-gating from a single nozzle is improved with the Melt-Disk, which has a heated disc carrying four, six or eight horizontal hot tips for ...

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