Milacron will be at Fakuma, in hall B3 – Booth 3203, with Milacron injection moulding machines, Mold-Masters hot runners and control systems, DME mould technology solutions including TIRAD high precision mould bases and Milacron Direct industrial supplies.
Tom Goeke, CEO of Milacron, said: “The Fakuma trade show has a rich history of displaying the plastics industry’s innovative, future now technical advancements. It’s this platform that allows us to present our customers with our most recent technological advances. We always look forward to meeting long-time customers and new prospects and show them how Milacron can assist them in their drive for continuous success.”
Milacron's Fakuma focus will be on automotive, medical, packaging and technical applications, with its Injection Moulding Machinery display featuring a Milacron All-Electric Elektron EVO 110 Injection Moulding Machine, designed for a full range of applications, in a wide variety of sizes and using 60 per cent less energy and 90 per cent less water than hydraulic injection moulding machines, reducing operating costs substantially. Setting the standard for movement repeatability, Elektron’s stroke precision of servo-driven axes is significantly greater than top hydraulic systems, making it the best injection moulding machine for the reliable production of high-precision parts.. Cell Specifics: Elektron EVO 110, 4-cavity Zahoransky medical syringe insert mould, clean room compliant system. Cycle time of 14 seconds.
Milacron Elektron Evo 110
Also showing, a Milacron Magna Toggle Servo 200-970 Injection Moulding Machine, a high-value injection moulding machine combining the advantages of precision and accurate toggle mechanism with advanced user controls. The servo design increases energy efficiency while providing repeatability, accuracy, and precision. The reliable toggle mechanism is optimised for fast cycling and reduced platen deflection and the Magna T can accommodate large and heavy moulds. This platform is an extremely versatile series that offers high reliability, making it an outstanding addition to any fleet. The Magna Toggle product range is from 55 to 550 metric tons. Cell Specifics: Magna Toggle Servo 200, 1-cavity automotive surface sample mould from Wirth Molds with a Mold-Masters TempMaster M1 controller.
Milacron’s Ferromatik machines are designed to meet the needs and demands of the packaging industry with fast cycle times and high injection speeds. Ferromatik machines are available in nine sizes: from 120 to 650 metric tons of clamping force and are pre-configured for easy multi-component, mono-sandwich, cube, and co-injection capability. Customers can also choose from electric, hydraulic, and hybrid drive options to meet their energy and performance requirements. Cell Specifics: Ferromatik 360, Mold-Masters Master-Series hot runner with a fully IMM machine integrated Mold-Masters TempMaster iM2 controller, 4-cavity packaging container mould and in-mould labelling technology from Müller in a 4 second cycle time.
With Hot Runners and Control Systems, Milacron will show its Mold-Masters Summit-Series Hot Runner, a premium Hot Runner for cleanrooms.
The Summit-Series is Mold-Masters’ premium hot runner line. The Summit-Series hot runner nozzle has four times less thermal variation from set point, compared to the typical thermal variation seen in a nozzle with a heater band. The Summit-Series hot runner is built completely from stainless steel, which makes it ideal for moulding shear and temperature-sensitive resins like PC, POM and PBT. The nozzle profile positively affects balance and is especially effective for medical market moulding where precision is paramount and has seen significant adoption in premium packaging and complex automotive applications. The Summit-Series can also be ordered with new servo-controlled valve-gate actuators, which allow for individual speed, time and position control of each valve pin in the mould. The Summit-Series is clean room-ready and is the perfect hot runner solution for any moulder looking to reduce risk and optimize moulding process parameters with minimised variance and strong, repeatable results.
Mold-Masters Summit Series
Milacron’s Mold-Masters product brand has developed new enhanced features in the Fusion G2 Series for automotive and large-part moulding. An extended nozzle length range provides more flexibility while the compound nozzle can be used to avoid interferences with cavity cooling lines, and position nozzles in very tight pockets. Fusion G2 is now available with valve pin open speed control and position monitoring that enables improved surface finishes at the gate of the part. Options for extra-extended gate seals are now also available on the entire Fusion G2 product line. Brand new additions to the Fusion G2 product line that will be on display will include high performance water-cooled gate inserts plus some additional new gating methods designed specifically for certain resins.
Mold-Masters new DURA+ hot runner for lighting applications uses features in the Master-Series and Dura product range. The developments focus on part quality and flexibility for customers. The new smarter angled manifold designs make installations easier and reduce the cost on mould machining. New gating styles and new valve pins with superior flow profile allow for perfect gate quality and the new heater path at main manifolds offer less zones to control without jeopardising the thermal balancing. The new valve pin position sensors fine tune the injection process and dual thermocouples on nozzles to avoid production fails and the proven Fusion G2 actuators that bring repeatability on gate closing, cooling water jackets.
Mold-Masters all-electric E-Multi converts existing injection moulding machine equipment to enable multi-shot and multi-material moulding, expanding operations potential. The proven E-Multi platform is fully compatible with any injection moulder and the ideal solution for precision moulding applications in any industry. The E-Multi has over 2,000 standard possible configurations available ensuring the E-Multi is perfectly sized to applications exact requirements. E-Multi is now available with LSR capabilities.
The Mold-Masters TempMaster control system lineup features the industry’s leading Adaptive Process System (APS) software and algorithms. This APS is at the core of each TempMaster controller. Today’s demanding molding applications require a hot runner controller that you can rely on for precision control, ease of use and day-to-day reliability. Equipment size is also an important issue when trying to maximize shop floor use. Mold-Masters has designed the M-Series range of controllers including the fully integrated iM2, the powerhouse M2, and the economical MT series. TempMaster controllers are available in 2 to 560 zone configurations. All controllers are user-friendly, plug-and-play units allowing for quick start-ups.
Milacron’s Mold-Masters hot runner product brand will showcase its leading closure hot runner, SPRINT, which has launched with Colour Change Tips. The new tips are engineered to far exceed the performance of similar competitive systems. The new SPRINT colour change tip improves colour change by up to 47 per cent against a standard gate tip. These new gating tips are available immediately as a standard package for all SPRINT systems and are compatible with the current tip as replacements. Mold-Masters SPRINT closure hot runners are engineered for speed. SPRINT is available in hot and valve gate solutions engineered for lightning-fast cycles, colour changes, optimal part quality and greater durability for maximum uptime, while dramatically reducing overheads.
TruCool is the new DME line of products designed to help mould makers and moulders with their mould cooling. DME’s Conformal Cooling solutions have a cutting edge, direct metal laser melting 3D printing process to produce highly complex cavities, cores, and components with conformal cooling channels. The process achieves shapes, paths, and channel geometries impossible to obtain with conventional tooling. DME’s TruCool Conformal Cooling solution places cooling channels at the optimal distance from the mould surface, consistently following the geometric shape of any mould insert for any customer part, allowing the mould to maintain a targeted, consistent temperature that allows for complete thermal control, allowing for the total injection moulding cycle time to be reduced by up to 60 per cent. This technology also allows for conformal venting solutions for those hard to reach areas of trapped gases, when requested by the moulder.
TIRAD product lines feature Large Mould Bases with plate lengths up to 1.5 x 2.3 m, increasing the capacity to handle larger, more diverse product moulds. The mould bases are manufactured on the fastest, most powerful machines within their class, and use machining centres that process data faster and more accurately. The premier equipment used to make large mould bases significantly reduces manual polishing and additional rework due to increased consistency in high quality finishes. TIRAD offers high precision climate room production capabilities of plates for plastics injection moulds, especially for multi-cavity systems in accuracy +/- 0.005 mm / 1000 mm. TIRAD’s high precision mould bases are principally used in medical, pharmaceutical, technical, food, beverage and packaging solutions.
Milacron’s eSTORE, launched a year ago, has received positive feedback while processing thousands of customer orders in North America and Europe. The Milacron eSTORE is offered in 15 languages. The e-commerce site is seamlessly integrated with the newly re-designed Milacron.com, offering a one-stop-shop for all Milacron products, including individual parts and assemblies for Milacron injection moulding machines and Mold-Masters hot runners and controllers.
