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Article: Tooling innovations for thermoset molding.
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- Plastics Engineering
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The use of cold-runner manifolds, gate-cutting systems, and dielectric monitoring, combined with proven mold design techniques, can give thermoset injection molders the process advantages normally associated with thermoplastic molding.
"Injection molding" is a term used by many of today's design engineers to signify an exclusively thermoplastic processing format. For many years, thermoset processing was restricted to operator-fed and evacuated-compression-and-transfer systems. These processes are still used today with great success. Injection molding, however, dominates high-volume thermoset part production. Hundreds of millions of parts are injection molded annually ...