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Category Archive: Hotrunners

Plate Cooling

This blog covers the importance of plate cooling as thermal management and calculator you can use to optimize […]

Posted on June 24, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Family Mold – Hot Runner Explained

Learn the basics of family mold and design tips for a family hot runner. This blog explains the […]

Posted on June 21, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Manifold Systems – explained

What is a manifold system? This blog explains the benefits and design tips for a manifold system…..Interested in […]

Posted on June 21, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

How to start a hot runner?

Here are the steps to start a hot runner…a practical guide. Follow these steps to save time and […]

Posted on June 21, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

How to layout a hot runner in a mold?

How to design a mold with hot runner in mind to reduce the cost. Paying attention to hot […]

Posted on June 16, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Advanced Valve Gate-Incoe’s Softgate

Do you want to control the gate opening and closing – slowly, resolve gate quality issue? This blog […]

Posted on June 14, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Valve Gate Controller

How do you control multiple valve gate timing? This blog explains the basics of valve gate controller…

Posted on June 13, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Shear Imbalance in Hot Runners

This blog discusses flow imbalances in hotrunners due to shear, even in a geometrically balanced hotunner. Meltflipper comes […]

Posted on June 12, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Electrical Schematics EXPLAINED

Learn the basic of electrical circuit and how to interpret the hot runner electrical drawing…

Posted on June 11, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Single Cavity hot runners

This blog discuss about single cavity hot runners for low cost economical option….

Posted on June 11, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

How come hot runner cycle is faster?

This blog explains how a hot runner can save cycle time and reasons for the savings…

Posted on June 10, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Stack hot runner – details

Continuation from the Stack intro video, this blog covers more detail on machine specs, hot runner stack design […]

Posted on June 10, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Stack Hot runner – intro

What is a stack hotrunner? Learn the basics in this blog

Posted on June 9, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Color change

Learn about factors that affect color change in hot runners. Design variables are covered in this blog…..

Posted on June 8, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

Shear rate – Explained

Learn what is shear rate, fountain flow and how to design plastics parts with limits of shear rate.

Posted on May 31, 2020December 9, 2024 Hotrunners

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