Growing AM's Presence in Moldmaking
Advanced Michigan mold manufacturer advocates for additive manufacturing in moldmaking through collaboration and education.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
High-Pressure Coolant System Line Offers Machine Tool Application Flexibility
The LNS North America ChipBLASTER line has been divided into the B-, F- and V-Series, according to pressure and application for easier selection.
Mold Components Target Route Cooling Lines
Progressive Components offers mold designers more route cooling line options within the tool with Diverting Rods, Seal Cores and O-Rings.
Exchangeable Drills and Tool Steel Holders For Faster Changeovers, Longer Insert life
The i-ONE line from YG-1 offers micro-grain carbide drill inserts, and premium tool steel holders with coolant channels that resist corrosion and wear and ensure body clearance.
Stainless Steel Spiral Cores Issue Homogeneous Conformal Cooling
Hasco’s extended spiral core mold components in stainless steel guarantee efficient heat transfer and homogeneous core cooling for medical and cleanroom technologies.
How to Improve Mold Venting with Metal Additive Manufacturing
Patented 3D-printed mold insert design rapidly evacuates gases while preventing plastic flash-through, eliminates costly maintenance and need for press-side temperature-control units.
Agemaspark Purchases 3D Metal Printing Machine, Improves Efficiency of Mold Tool
The EOS 290 enables manufacturing of mold tools through a conformal cooling technique to produce laser-sintered inserts. The technique improves efficiency of a mold tool by as much as 20%.
Have You Heard of Printing Mold Inserts with Metal Paste?
A lower-cost 3D printing approach extrudes a metal paste to produce a mold insert with the required surface finish and tolerances.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
Stainless Steel Cooling Range Guarantees Reliable, Leak-Proof Temperature Control
Hasco’s cooling range is a clean and reliable temperature control system for effectively cooling injection molds when using hot or cold water or heat-transfer oil.
Cutting Tools and Inserts Deliver High Feed Milling and Versatility
Dormer Pramet’s economical range of high feed cutters and inserts enable productive machining of a variety of materials for die and mold applications.
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.
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.
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.
Moldmaking Technology's Top-Viewed Content: Technology, Additive Tooling, Workforce Development and More
The MoldMaking Technology team has pulled together a list of the top performing items of the last month based on recent pageview analytics. Take a look.
Katelyn Arnold
Digital Assistant Editor, MoldMaking Technology
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.
BIG KAISER Adds New Inserts to Offerings
Big Kaiser Precision Tooling is adding more than 30 pressed-geometry carbide inserts for its tools.
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.
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.
Giving Mold Builders Additive Capabilities, Super Creativity
I saw my first 3D-printed hot runner manifold at K 2019 in Germany, but the system did not have a name yet. Fast forward to 2020 and it not only has a name, but it’s been successfully implemented in a number of applications across Europe. And today, it’s ready for the North American marketplace.
Christina M. Fuges
Editorial Director, MoldMaking Technology
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.
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.
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.
