The demand for hot runner systems has increased with the move toward greater efficiencies, higher productivity, and reduced scrap. That’s pretty much the word from the hot runner systems manufacturers ...

With the switch to Ultrasync-E hot runner, the customer’s resin use dropped by half while cycle time shrank from 16 to 8 sec. The system has run in production for more than 3 million cycles with no ...

This article continues The Troubleshooter’s Rules of Thumb series. Bob Hatch is manager of technical service and customer support for Prime Alliance, the Des Moines-based resin distributor. Before ...

The company has developed integrated hot-runner technology, combining a unitized design with a simple mold-design modification. Injection molders benefit from the integrated approach in several ways: ...