Smart Molding International 1-2024

16 smart_molding international 1/2024 newsfeed Mold-Masters® introduces latest technology at NPE 2024 in Orlando Mold-Masters, a leading developer and supplier of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection, and co-injection systems, will showcase its latest products at NPE 2024: The Plastics Show, held May 6-10 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The new products include hot runner systems, temperature and motion controllers, an auxiliary injection unit, a gate seal, and sustainable processing solutions. The new hot runner systems include the Fusion Series® G3 and the EcoONE-Series™. The Fusion Series G3 hot runner system comes pre-assembled and features the following enhancements: compound nozzles; a heated nozzle flange; quick change headless valve pins; and waterless actuators featuring passive actuator cooling technology. The EcoONE-Series 1-8 drop hot runner system is a highly economical, standardized solution suitable for processing commodity resins for simple, cost-sensitive applications such as consumer goods, small home appliances, basic automotive components, electronic peripherals/accessories, and more. It’s offered with a wide range of standard components including nozzles with a shot range capacity of <5 g up to 3,500 g in lengths ranging from 50 to 300 mm. Manifolds are available with custom pitch ranges. Also on display will be the new TempMaster™ M4 hot runner temperature controller and the M-Ax™ mold motion controller. The TempMaster M4 features Mold-Masters’ new HR-Connect technology, which eliminates conventional mold thermocouple and power cables and replaces them with a single lightweight cable connecting the mold to the control head unit. Featuring an innovative new Mold Direct Mount design, the TempMaster M4 sets a new standard for temperature controller design. The next-generation M-Ax mold motion controller features a simplified user interface with special features, including p r e p r o g r a mm e d m o d e functions and energy and torque monitoring. Energy monitoring allows molders to measure and track the energy consumption of their motion controls, while torque monitoring can be used for a variety of purposes as determined by the user. Additional products featured at the show will include the company’s E-Multi® product line of auxiliary injection units, which now includes the E-Multi mini. A compact, lightweight unit designed for small shot weights, the E-Multi mini is affixed to the mold and can be mounted in nearly any orientation. It also has a pivoting hopper that can move from left to right to accommodate challenging installation positions. The Sprint® APEX gate seal minimizes flow lines, improving environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR) of CSD caps by up to 40% to support light weighting. It is also designed to enhance part quality, improve color change by up to 65% and minimize maintenance costs by eliminating the insulation cap associated with other industry standard gate seal designs. Mold-Masters’ co-injection multi-layer systems maximize the use of recycled content. This technology allows molders to incorporate recycled content up to 50% of total part weight as the core layer positioned between two layers of virgin resin. The co-injection technology is compatible with small to large packaging products and a range of other applications. Mold- Masters offers both complete system solutions and a retrofit package to convert conventional single shot injection machines to co-injection. A system producing 5-gallon pails with recycled cores on a 950t machine will be on display and running live. The company’s various processing solutions for bio-resins and recycled materials, will also be on display at the booth. Mold-Masters www.moldmasters.com Mold-Masters’ new innovative premium Sprint APEX gate seal, designed to serve as the new standard for cap and closure molds (all pictures: Mold-Masters) The most versatile, all electric servo driven, thermoplastic auxiliary injection unit