Mold Materials
Material Choice Considerations for Mold Venting
A comparison of high-tonnage pressed steel—such as H13, 420 stainless, P20 and pressed porous venting mold steel—and 3D printed tooling.
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Pre-hardened Mold Steel Offers Variety of Benefits for Moldmaking
Finkl Steel highlights its MD Xtra, a pre-hardened, mold steel designed for various applications and uses for moldmakers.
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Large Aluminum Mold Plate Sizes Enable Machinability for Moldmakers
Vista Metals highlights one of the largest aluminum mold plate sizes available on the market, its Duramold-5 Aluminum Mold Plate produced in super slab sizes for high strength to weight ratios, machinability and a virtually porosity-free structure to meet moldmakers’ critical surface finish requirements.
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Micro Mill Steel Enables Quality Tool and Moldmaking Capabilities
Steel 21 offers its 21 Micro Mill for accuracy, flatness and parallelism to enable moldmakers to build a quality tool.
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Stainless Steel Series Benefits Blow Mold and Vac Form Applications
Molder’s World Inc.’s stainless steel mold material, Vortex is designed to ensure a smooth part with the measured release of gases during the molding process, providing better detail on the part and faster part production.
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Mold Material Enables Additive Manufacturing Capabilities for Tooling
Uddeholm USA features its mold material Corrax as the first additive manufacturing (AM) powder made for tooling. Corrax is a stainless steel made for AM with corrosion resistance and polishability.
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N Range Offers Over 3,000 Variants in Different Dimensions and Steel Grades
This extension to the existing range is designed specifically to meet the needs of tool and moldmaking and is an optimum supplement to the extensive Hasco plate portfolio of undrilled P and drilled K plates.
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EDM Graphite Enables Moldmakers to Meet Strict Precision Requirements
Entegris Poco Materials highlights its EDM-3 graphite, known for exceptional strength, wear resistance and fine surface finish characteristics and thus an ideal solution for moldmakers’ most demanding applications.
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EDM Graphite Line for High-End EDM Machining
IMTS 2024: Mersen offers its complete family of EDM graphite, including its ultra-fine DS4 graphite. The graphite is used as the electrode which acts as a “cutting tool” in the sinker EDM, a machining process often used by moldmakers.
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Tool Steel Offers Advantages For Production Efficiency, Component Service Life
Swiss Steel USA’s E 40 K Superclean offers benefits for a more efficient manufacturing processes in terms of production efficiency and component service life.
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