A Multi-Metal Additive Approach to Optical Quality Molds
Researchers propose a new approach to producing mold inserts with optical surface quality and no degradation using electroforming, thermal spray, and selective laser melting.
Mold Inserts Ensure Versatile Traceability Solutions
DME is providing customers with mold inserts for date, part and resin identification.
Daters and Center Inserts Provide Continuous Quality and Reliability
CUMSA USA continues to provide continuous reliability and quality with its stainless steel original daters and center insert components.
Drill Head Series Provide Consistent Performance
Sunnen Products Company offers a series of drill heads, inserts and pads that are directly interchangeable with Sandvik deep-hole drilling tools.
Square Shoulder Milling Cutter Improves Roughing Operations and Reduces Power Consumption
Seco Tool introduces its double square shoulder cutter design and inserts for more cost-effective and sustainable production.
Heavy Duty Round Reversible Toolholders Increase Cutting Performance
Thinbit, manufactured by Kaiser Tool Company Inc., introduces a toolholder option that takes advantage of the full line of inserts for grooving, threading, face grooving and custom applications.
Descaling Cart and Solution Cleans, Coats and Prevents Corrosion in Cooling Lines
PCS Company, together with iD Additives, announces the environmentally friendly Eco-Pro 360 Descaler Cart and Solution.
In Automotive, Is Additive Manufacturing an Answer for Die Cast Tooling?
The largest high-pressure die cast tool builder in North America is 3D printing die inserts and water jackets for major automakers. It’s a tough sell, but one company is succeeding — and it’s just getting started.
Brent Donaldson
Senior Editor, Additive Manufacturing Media
BIG KAISER Adds New Inserts to Offerings
Big Kaiser Precision Tooling is adding more than 30 pressed-geometry carbide inserts for its tools.
Expanded Indexable Threading Tools Ensure Minimum Interference
Tungaloy expands its TungThread line of indexable threading tools to include 11ER external threading inserts as well as 8 by 8 mm and 10 by 10 mm square shank holders to accommodate the new inserts.
Mold Builder Learns How to Use Hybrid AM to Build Conformal-Cooled Inserts
It is one thing to understand additive technology, but it is another to know when to invest, who to partner with and how to sell its value.
Couplings Suited for Rapid Coupling of Heating/Cooling Lines
Hasco adds multiple shut-off couplings and nipples to its range especially for high-temperature applications.
E-commerce Available to Purchase CUMSA Center Inserts, Daters with Traceability Components
CUMSA USA has officially announced the launch of its new e-commerce site, www.cumsausa.shop, as of September 30, 2019.
Video: Metal AM Affects Plastics Production via Conformal Cooling
Additive manufacturing allows cooling channels within mold tooling inserts to follow the form of the tool rather than being straight drilled holes. Here’s why this matters.
Additive Tooling Goes Beyond Conformally Cooled Inserts to Simplify the Mold Build Process
Three ways that additive tooling is moving past conformal cooling to bring speed and efficiency to the overall tooling process.
Drill Inserts Provide Greater Stability, Improved Performance
YG-1’s SV-point spade drill inserts provide longer tool life at higher spindle speeds and feeds.
H13 Laser Sintering Process for Robust Tooling
Partnership is the key to developing advanced process parameters for producing robust H13 tooling using laser sintering process.
A Systematic Approach to Laser Sintering
As an early adopter of laser sintering technology, NyproMold uses a very focused, two-step strategy for evaluating when it makes sense to use it.
Hybrid Milling Machine Improves Cycle Times and Part Yields
Custom Mold & Design Expands Services with purchase of a Matsuura Lumex Avance-25 metal laser sintering, hybrid milling machine.
Hybrid Milling Machine Fuses Metal Laser Sintering and High Speed
Matsuura Machinery USA, Inc. will exhibit the Lumex Avance-25 metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine at Amerimold.
Conformal Cooling: Not Just Faster Parts but Better Parts
EVCO Plastics has been offering DMLS conformal-cooled inserts for years and like many shops today, they outsource this work to mold builders who have expertise in DMLS.
VIDEO: Custom Mold & Design Talks Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
Lester Jones, VP of Custom Mold & Design discusses the shop's use of its Matsuura Lumex Avance-25 hybrid AM machine for creating conformal-cooled inserts with MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
Angle Pin Inserts Reduce Setup Times
PCS Company’s angle pin inserts reduce setup time by allowing the moldmaker to machine while doing other flat work.
Capability to 3D Print H13 Delivers Robust Tooling
Direct metal laser sintering H13 material plays a big role in how this company has differentiated itself from the competition.
Tooling: New Safety Couplings for Mold Cooling Lines
Hasco’s new couplings have an automatic safety lock.
How to Improve Melt Distribution with Diffusion-Bonded Manifolds
Diffusion bonding for manifold manufacturing offers design freedom for optimizing hot runner melt distribution, reducing color change-over time, cavity-to-cavity weight variation, peak injection pressures, melt degradation, and resin flow stress.
New LP09 inserts Combine Higher Insert Corner Strength with Dual Cutting Edges
Seco Tools’ new, larger LP09 inserts combine higher insert corner strength with dual cutting edges to speed face milling.
Latch Function on Stamp Prevents Movement on Arrow Inserts
Meusburger says that its stamps have a latch function that fixes the arrow insert into defined positions and guarantees that the arrow remains in a fixed position.
