Technology Showcase: Mold Components and Surface Treatment

SelfLube has expanded its customization capability for bronze and steel wear strips, allowing customers to specify custom sizes, shapes, holes and hole patterns, chamfers, pockets, and cutouts.

Meusburger's small E 3300 Slide unit features eccentric guiding and mirrored mounting options that require minimal space inside molds.

Michem Release Agents 4002 and 4003 from Michelman have been formulated specifically for trouble-free release of both metal and ceramic molded parts.

RTC North America manufactures a large variety of couplers, including pneumatic, water, hydraulic and electrical.

Diamond E.N. from Bales Metal Surface Solutions is an electroless nickel coating with nano-sized diamond particles that offers a balance of corrosion and wear resistance, plus lubricity.

Well-suited for small or medium batch sizes, Trumpf's TruMark Station 3000 compact marking station can be used to integrate the marking process into production lines.

Offering both manual and semi-automatic modes of operation, the Model SS-10 SA rotary table wet blast system from Guyson uses abrasive or bead-type media for dustless blast cleaning, descaling, surface preparation and cosmetic finishing of components that may be too damp or oily for dry-blast processing.