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Plastic Injection Mold Manufacturer in China Announces To Offer Economical Manufacturing Solution

▲ Auto Mold Making ▲ plastic medical part (MENAFN Editorial) Shenzhen, China; With their great expertise and specialization, Inno Molding Co.,ltd announces plastic mold making service for different clients, engaged in producing a variety of goods. The company has an experienced and resourceful product development and engineering team that is capable of developing precise mold to meet their exact manufacturing requirement. The company is one of the leading plastic injection mold manufacturers China that have the ability to work with different plastic materials, such as PC, PP, PE, PA, PSU, TPU, TPE, silicone and others. This is why Inno Molding Co.,ltd can deliver an incredibly large range of plastic molds suitable for different industrial applications. They have their own factory setup with dozens of plastic injection machines to design and develop plastic molds on a timely basis. The engineers and technicians of the company carefully process each mold developing task and endeavor to supply molds without a delay. According to the company spokesperson, they are one of the ISO certified injection molding manufacturers in China with professional QC inspectors to monitor product quality. These inspectors carry out assembly testing, dimensional measurement and cosmetic inspection to make sure the best quality plastic molds are produced for the clients. They document all the data related to the mold and send the sample to the client for their review and to make sure that the developed mold meets the clients precise specifications. As one of the trustworthy plastic mould manufacturers in China, they carry out the quality analysis before shipping molds to the client. They use high quality PP bags, PET blister, and transparent buffers for packing molds and shipping them to the customers around the world. With the best quality packaging, the molds remain protected from any kind of wear and tear and customers receive exact quality molds for their production purposes. The company is capable of handling the mass production of the mold after the sample approval by the client. One can learn more about their mold making process by visiting the website http://www.mouldingchina.com/. http://menafn.com/1095362945/Plastic-Injection-Mold-Manufacturer-in-China-Announces-To-Offer-Economical-Manufacturing-Solution-for-Industrial-Clients

Ms. Kang 2017-04-07

More modular and efficient: The new generation of LRX small robots from KraussMaffei

▲ The new generation of LRX small robots from KraussMaffei: The progressive design with the decentralized control cabinet concept and free-standing X axis offers greater scope for maintenance and service during production– Progressive design and great flexibility– Significant reduction in secondary process times – New synchronized assembly at the Schwerin location ensures short delivery times and improves services KraussMaffei has optimized its range of linear small robots. The new LRX 50, LRX 100 and LRX 150 have been specifically designed to satisfy the criteria of availability, precision and productivity. Thanks to the numerous new features, the secondary process times and thus the entire cycle times can be considerably reduced. New synchronized assembly ensures fast delivery times For the production of the new small robot series, KraussMaffei Automation uses the new synchronized assembly at the Schwerin location. "We therefore offer our customers fast delivery times, high quality thanks to production from a single source, and fast service and retrofitting service, for example spare part stocking," explains Thomas Marufke, Managing Director of KraussMaffei Automation. The new generation of linear small robots complements the system competence of KraussMaffei in automation, which also includes industrial robots and sprue pickers. The new LRX 50, LRX 100 and LRX 150 can be combined individually with all hydraulic and all-electric injection molding machines with clamping forces from 350 to 6500 kN. Progressive design ensures high availability The modern industrial design of the new generation of small robots was specifically aimed at increasing reliability against failure. The decentralized switching cabinet design thus ensures easy access and flexibility, for example in event of maintenance or when retrofitting sensors or additional media circuits. A revised thermal and protective concept for the electronic components with protection class IP 54 ensures high availability and safety. Furthermore, rack and pinion drives instead of toothed belts result in a high level of precision in rapid axis movements. The media lines and the electronics system are protected on the Y axis by quick-change covers. Furthermore, a central media portal allows fast gripper changing and supports production with frequent product change-overs. Additional powerful components complement the good accessibility and productivity of the new generation of linear small robots. The new axis design thus allows free access for plasticizing and material supply. A new compact design of the servo-driven hand axes makes possible minimal opening strokes, an additional blow-off function after the components are held using a vacuum ensures rapid depositing. "Overall, the secondary process times can be significantly reduced, which, in turn, shortens the total cycle times," says Marufke. Energy-efficient and cost-effective KraussMaffei pays special attention to energy-efficiency and cost-effectiveness in all handling systems. This also applies to the new LRX small robots. For example, the new digital vacuum monitoring system with integrated air-saving function makes it possible to reduce compressed air requirements by up to 90 per cent. The additional function for leakage monitoring reports malfunctions during operation, thus allowing the planned maintenance of the system. With the aim of handling greater loads with smaller devices, the design of the servo-driven hand axes has been revised. The objective was to reduce the device's own weight and thus increase the remaining load capacity of the robot. Thanks to the new lightweight design of the robot's main axes, in addition the mass to be moved by the respective individual axis was reduced. Overall, the work can now be performed with smaller drive units, thus reducing energy consumption.

강민정 2017-03-21

New hot-runner products simplify injection molding process

By: Clare Goldsberry March 08, 2017The new Three Layer Tip, Pressure Block and Thread Safe Kit is the latest innovation from HRSflow (San Polo di Piave, Italy) designed to optimize injection molding processing, while simplifying routine maintenance of hot-runner systems. The Three Layer Tip is a coating-free tip made of three materials, one of which is a copper bushing internal to the flow channel to improve thermal conductivity. The new design provides increased temperature at the gate, thereby improving processing of glass-filled materials, for example. The Pressure Block is made with low-heat conductible materials positioned between the hot runner system and the mold, which increases clamp plate stiffness under load and provides an optimal thermal profile along the whole hot runner system, critical for ensuring the quality of the finished part. The main feature is flexible positioning that won’t negatively affect the thermal profile of the hot runner system, says HRSflow. The new Thread Safe Kit optimizes the injection molding process and simplifies routing maintenance. A special bushing positioned between the nozzle and manifold provides easy nozzle removal without thread damage when processing materials such as PMMA and PC. The new design eliminates thread seizing between the duct and manifold, allowing for simple removal of the nozzle from the manifold for routine maintenance in any condition. https://www.plasticstoday.com/injection-molding/new-hot-runner-products-simplify-injection-molding-process/29282985956446

강민정 2017-03-21

Flexible and scalable: The new KraussMaffei steering wheel mold carrier

– An expanded swivel range of up to 90 degrees enables efficient bleeding of the mold– A modular design increases machine availability – Polyurethane foam discharge into an open mold and fast mold changes▲ A freely adjustable swiveling range of 0 to 90 degrees: the new KraussMaffei steering wheel mold carrier The new steering wheel mold carrier for KraussMaffei Reaction Process Machinery features high flexibility, excellent ergonomics and maximum machine availability. These features are a result of the new ergonomic design and expanded swivel range of up to 90 degrees. The new mold carrier is used in polyurethane encapsulation of steering wheels. Continuously adjustable The mold carrier provides high flexibility plus good operability since the clamp has a tilting option that is continuously and individually adjustable. The swivel range – expanded with the new mold carrier – is between zero and 90 degrees, both for foaming and for reaction process machinery. The 90-degree foam position enables the mold to vent air through the separating half. This means that no additional degassing openings are required. Less waste is produced and the material usage is reduced," explains Wolfgang Frehsdorf, Head of the Foam business unit at KraussMaffei. The machine operator also benefits from the option of tilting because the handling position is freely adjustable in a range from zero to 40 degrees. The new mold carrier for steering wheel encapsulation is easy to scale according to capacity requirements. The modular design provides for this. Each station has its own hydraulic unit and its own proportional controller. Thus the user can arrange multiple units of this kind side-by-side at will and have them run in both individual as well as synchronous cycles, which are programmed using the touch panel. Thanks to this independent control of multiple mold carriers, the system achieves the greatest machine availability. In addition, the greatest flexibility in factory planning is provided by the option of simply shifting each mold carrier from one system to the next. The mold carriers can be quickly installed on site, and the expansion of existing systems is possible without any significant production interruptions. The steering wheel mold carrier can handle both hydraulic and pneumatic mold functions. The clamping forces of the mold are freely adjustable, reach up to ten tonnes and are variable throughout the mold carrier cycle. The customer can personally and conveniently program this cycle using the control system's touch panel. Powerful and user-friendly Like all KraussMaffei FTR mold carriers, the new steering wheel mold carrier features fast clamping movements and high platen parallelism. This guarantees short process times and consistently high component quality. At least one mold fixing platen is swivel-mounted on the new steering wheel mold carrier and can be rotated. The clamping unit is secured to the joining plates in order to build up force. The strength-optimized frame structure of the mold carriers, in combination with a hydraulic locking device, ensures an optimal force flow when closing the mold halves. The minimal warpage of the mold fixing platens even allows non-inherently rigid molds to be used. The FTR mold carriers not only provide access to the mold from three sides, but also allow foam to be discharged into the open mold and molds to be changed quickly.

강민정 2017-03-17

The hybrid is the future of e-mobility

강민정 2017-02-28

New desktop injection molding machine gives competition a run for its money

By: Clare Goldsberry in Injection Molding,Automotive and Mobility, Medical on January 05, 2017 Kubi Kara and his partner, Burak Cevik, never thought they would be in the injection molding business, but as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Kara, a mechanical engineer who has an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, and Cevik, who has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, met while both were attending Xavier’s MBA program. Together they founded Advanced Production Systems (APSX; Blue Ash, OH), developing unique, simple tools for industry and consumers including RFID readers (APSXRFID), aftermarket auto parts and accessories, robotics and consumer electronics, which they sell to customers around the world. APSX-PIM desktop injection molding machineKara and Cevik wanted to design some small plastic components for their automotive aftermarket parts business that had them looking at a better and more cost-effective way to obtain these parts. That’s when the idea of molding these parts themselves took hold. “But mold prices are incredibly high,” Kara told PlasticsToday. “A mold for this small plastic part was $15,000. Investing in an injection molding machine was a minimum of $50,000. So in thinking how can we make this happen more cost effectively, we decided to make our own machine, which we did and we have used it for two years to make our own parts.” Kara soon discovered there was a big demand for desktop injection molding machines. “We found there is a huge market for people like us who want to mold their own plastic parts using their own injection molding machine, but without the large upfront investment,” Kara said. “The APSX-PIM was born as a redesigned and optimized model of the original machine, and purposely designed to make plastic or metal injection molding (MIM) cost effective and easy to apply for prototyping, testing, new product development and low-volume part production.”▲ APSX_PIM ModelThe desktop APSX-PIM (patent pending) is an alternative to desktop 3D printing with a number of benefits that 3D printers do not offer. In addition to being convenient for use in engineering, product development and plastic part design labs, the new APSX-PIM offers repeatability and results in better quality parts. “Injection molding is much better than 3D printing in that you can get the same results every time through the machine settings,” Kara explained. “3D printing repeatability is not there—there’s more variability—and in terms of plastics, the APSX-PIM uses regular resin pellets.” The APSX-PIM includes a 10-in. touch screen to start and stop the machine, adjust settings and monitor progress in real time. In spite of its compact size, the APSX-PIM is a fully automatic, 110-V electric powered machine with a 1200-W heater. It is 4-ft long, 1-ft deep and 1-ft high and weighs 250 lb. The machine features a compression spring, heated barrel with motorized plunger, with a 1.83 cubic inch shot capacity, and it can hold a 6-by-4.8-in. mold base. It works with steel, aluminum or CNC cut inserts and 3D-printed molds, and the machine can mold a variety of plastic resins, including ABS, acetal, HDPE, PP, PS and TPO. Since it uses only air to cool the mold area, there is no need to have a dedicated water supply; while the cycle time is a bit slow, as a result, it is much faster than a 3D printer. “Our typical cycle time is about 60 seconds,” Kara said. “The fan on top of the molding area is controlled electronically. It requires setting the temperature of the mold at a specific degree, and when the fan needs to come on, it will do so automatically and at different speeds, depending on temperature requirements. It’s fully automated so when you push the button to start the machine, it’s basically hands off.” Kara noted that the price of the APSX-PIM is one of the primary differences between their machine and a competitor’s “desktop” molding machine—it is about one-third the price, which makes the APSX-PIM very affordable. APSX’s primary targets for the new molder are full- or part-time CNC machinists, product design studios, high-tech medical equipment manufacturers, engineering and technical schools and DIY hobbyists and inventors. The APSX-PIM will be featured on Kickstarter this month, where Kara and Cevik hope to raise $50,000 “to get things rolling.” It will be made in the USA at the company’s Cincinnati facility. http://www.plasticstoday.com/injection-molding/new-desktop-injection-molding-machine-gives-competition-run-its-money/197116857447241/page/0/1

강민정 2017-01-17

3D Printering: Smartphone Resin Printers Actually Work

Brian Benchoff November 18, 2016 Last spring, the world saw something amazing. It was a device that would revolutionize the planet, save the world, and turn your smartphone into a 3D printer.While filament-based 3D printers are extremely capable and slicing software is only getting better, resin-based printers are able to produce prints of nearly unparalleled quality. If you want high-resolution objects and fine detail, a resin printer is the way to go. These resin printers, however, are a bit more expensive than your traditional filament printers. A few hundred dollars will buy you a serviceable i3 clone, and less than a thousand will get you a real Prusa capable of printing in four colors. The premier desktop resin printer, the Form 2 from Form Labs, starts at $3500 USD.- Video : ONO, the Smart Phone 3D Printer (Click the photo)The ONO (or OLO) changed all of this. Instead of lasers and galvanometers or DLP projectors, this $99 resin-based printer used your smartphone display to shine light on a vat of resin. It was brilliant, according to the backers of the OLO Kickstarter. It is “a boon for democratizing 3D printing technology,” according to one idiotic tech blog. People with more sense questioned the feasibility of a resin printer powered by a phone. For people who are more familiar with 3D printers, there were a few questions concerning the ONO. The Kickstarter campaign showed light-sensitive resin stored in translucent bottles. Control of the Z-axis stage of this printer was apparently through the headphone port. Different models of smartphones have different thicknesses, and there is no documentation how this would affect the distance from the resin tank to the screen. If a print on the OLO takes an hour, you can’t use your phone for an hour. However, the idea of using an LCD to shine light directly onto the bottom of a resin tank is interesting, and at least deserves some experimentation.- Video : LCD 3D Printer (Click the photo) Someone finally did it. In a YouTube video uploaded this week, [Ionel Ciobanuc] demonstrated a homebrew 3D printer that is pretty much what ONO pretends to be. It’s a 5 inch LCD driven by a Raspberry Pi running nanoDLP with a simple motorized Z-axis pulling the print out of the resin. It works. Compared to a Form Labs print, or even a high-quality print off a filament-based machine it doesn’t work terribly well, but it works. In any event, it’s an experiment and proof of concept. However, this experimental 3D printer from [Ionel] shows what can be done with even the most minimal BOM. It’s not unreasonable to think this experiment in resin printing could be built for less than $100, and further experiments could bring that cost down even more. The idea presented by the ONO printer – putting a display at the bottom of a resin tank – actually works. http://hackaday.com/2016/11/18/3d-printering-smartphone-resin-printers-actually-work/

Ms. Kang 2016-11-23

Could 3D printing help tackle poverty and plastic waste?

Startups are turning plastic waste in developing countries into filament for 3D printers while employing local waste pickers A worker washes shredded plastic waste for recycling. Photograph: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty 7 November 2016When Sidhant Pai visited a local rubbish dump in his home city of Pune, India, he was struck by the size and intensity of the operation. Large black crows swooping overhead, roaming pigs, overwhelming odours and groups of waste pickers collecting plastic bottles in large white sacks. There are an estimated 15 million people globally who currently make their living from waste picking and many earn less than a dollar a day. A key problem, says environmental engineer Pai, is that workers only capture a tiny proportion of the value of the waste they collect, separate and transport to scrap dealers. Together with his parents, Suchismita and Jayant Pai, he founded social enterprise Protoprint in 2012, one of a number of organisations trying to address the twin issues of poor conditions for waste pickers and plastic waste pollution. More than 300m tonnes of plastic are produced globally every year, with much ending up in the ocean (one refuse truck’s worth every minute), in landfill, or on city streets. “Our focus was on looking into different ways to add value to the waste, we were agnostic about the specific product,” Pai says. After experimenting with making a few different products, Protoprint settled on making the plastic filament – the “ink” – for 3D printers. “It added a tremendous amount of value to the waste plastic while still being relatively simple to manufacture at the dump.” Protoprint partnered with SWaCH, a Pune-based cooperative wholly owned by waste pickers. Together they have set up a low-cost filament production facility at a local rubbish dump in Pune operated by SWaCH waste pickers to convert plastic waste – specifically high-density polyethylene (HPDE) mostly used for plastic bottles – into 3D printing filament to eventually be sold to Indian or international 3D printing companies. Protoprint waste pickers. Photograph: Protoprint Protoprint buys filament from SwaCH for 300 rupees (£3.50) per kg – if waste pickers sold the plastic waste directly to scrap merchants the pickers would receive around 19 rupees (23p) per kg, says Pai. “After factoring in the costs of production and the various other expenses, there is still a six to eight times multiplier per kilogram of filament,” he says. The market for filament, the majority of which is made from virgin plastic, is growing rapidly. A report by a leading markets analyst predicted the 3D printing materials market would grow by nearly 266% over the next five years, to be worth £1.07bn by 2021. However, most of it is expensive because of production and export costs, says William Hoyle, CEO of TechforTrade. The British charity is working to promote and standardise an ethical way for filament to be made from the plastic collected by waste collectors. Ethical filament will be cheaper to buy than commercial filament, Hoyle says, because waste plastic is free resource and production costs are lower in developing countries. “The ethical filament standard is an open standard,” says Hoyle. “We see the certification process happening in two ways. First, the social, environmental and economic assessment would be done by the waste collection organisation ... Second, the technical quality standard will be assessed by an independent third party and we are in discussion with a specialist assessor that will undertake this task.” Amsterdam-based ReFlow, a social enterprise based in the Netherlands, works with one of TechforTrade’s printing partners in Tanzania, STICLab, on a pilot project in Dar es Salaam. Co-founder Jasper Middendorp compares the potential of 3D printing to the development of mobile banking or solar in Africa, both of which flourished because infrastructure was broken. “Tanzania is highly import dependent and has very little of its own production infrastructure,” he says, and 3D printing decentralises production without a huge capital expense or a great deal of specialised knowledge. This, he says, helps “make countries more self-sufficient instead of importing products from abroad that may not be suited to the local context”. Previously supported by seed funding and the founders’ own money, ReFlow has just closed off a Kickstarter campaign, raising €26,000 (£23,000) and plans to launch the product in Amsterdam in February 2017. However, it is still working on quality control. “We haven’t produced market quality filament yet,” says Middendorp, “but we are hoping to do so within a month.” The quality of the filament made from recycled waste plastic is a challenge for the whole 3D printing industry, says Pai. Protoprint’s pilot unit is currently making filament but is not yet ready to sell to market as there are problems with warping. The company is working with a team of senior polymer scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory to develop an additive for the filament to prevent the warping issue, funded by a government grant. Protoprint says it currently has 4,000kg of pre-orders, mostly from small- and medium-sized distributors based in the US, UK, Germany and India looking to sample and test the filament. “We have not yet started commercial operations and are working on improving our filament quality before we do so,” says Pai. Quality is not necessarily an insurmountable issue, says Thomas Birtchnell, a lecturer at the University of Wollongong and author of 3D Printing for Development in the Global South. Much of the recycled filament is destined for “the open source market for low-end products,” he says, “they may not look glamorous but they are still functional products that can be used in development contexts”. The greatest potential 3D printing offers the developing world is not for the products made, but for “putting the means of production into the hands of the local people”, says Jeremy Faludi, a sustainable design strategy consultant and teacher at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The market for ethical filament is a small one, he adds, but “if the quality can match virgin filament at a similar price point, then it can be a large market. As with all things in sustainability, customers like the story, they’re just not willing to pay more for it.” https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/06/3d-printing-plastic-waste-poverty-development-protoprint-reflow-techfortrade

jennifer 2016-11-16