An automotive injection molding company wanted to get more production capacity from their current equipment. In order to do this, they needed to reduce machine downtime or get better cycle time. Their Process Engineer described the problem: “Doing a change from black glass-filled PP to unfilled bisque PP (cosmetic appearance); it takes a lot of [...]
An extrusion blow molding company in Mexico has been using virgin resin to purge their Schütz accumulator heads during color changes for many years. They manufacture all types of polyethylene buckets, bottles, containers and drums. A few months ago a team of process engineers and managers from this plant reached out to us to begin [...]
Many custom molders have the task of trying to run multiple colors from the same mold and with the same processing parameters. Even with the latest and greatest technology of molding machines, and all their bells and whistles, plastic resin is still plastic resin. Whether you are using compounded colors or mixing the colorant into [...]
While visiting a captive injection molding customer in Southern California, I was immediately brought out to the tool room where I was introduced to the Tool Room Manager. He had an injection mold open on the bench, trying to solve a problem. The mold was a PP family mold making four different types of parts. I [...]
Sun Plastech Inc. (Parsippany, NJ), manufacturer of the leading purging compound ASACLEAN™, named Rodney Davenport Technical Sales Representative of the company. Rodney Davenport has been in the injection molding industry for 19 years and he held technical, process engineering and managerial positions. Rodney has a six sigma green belt certification and is well-versed in lean [...]
I have a customer, an automotive molder in Michigan, who I have been working with to reduce machine downtime and scrap. They perform their polypropylene color changes with Asaclean UP Grade, including purging their hot runners (purging through the mold). In most cases, I’m told, after 3-4 shots the manifolds are clean! Recently they introduced [...]
Are you tired of wasting hours (and money) to have your highly-skilled employees pull screws? Do you have injection molding machines or extruders sitting idle while workers franticly try to “put out fires”? Today’s competitive plastics processing market demands faster deliveries on while maintaining stricter product QC. Controlling machine downtime is imperative in order to [...]
“Low-Hanging Fruit”. We have all heard this expression. Are you looking for a quick return on one of your investments? How does an immediate return on your investment sound, all while prolonging the life of your equipment? Using Asaclean purge material is one of the most effective ways to get immediate savings. A large injection [...]
To help reduce scrap rates, a premier injection molding supplier in the south, making well known German interior trim parts, recently evaluated ASACLEAN U Grade Purge Compound on an ABS hot runner color transition, going from black to beige on a 500-ton Krauss Maffei injection molding machine equipped with a Synventive hot runner manifold. For [...]
The president of an electrical components injection molding company in the Northeast recently called in and commended ASACLEAN’s marketing efforts. Their goal was to find a purging compound that didn’t have an offensive smell like their current (acrylic-based) purging compound. He said that his search on the internet quickly led him to ASACLEAN. To be [...]
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