Category: Post-Production Equipment
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How to Size a Desiccant Dryer for Plastic Injection Molding

What is the material? How many pounds per hour do you want to process? Properly drying plastic resin is essential to achieving high-quality molded parts, especially for hygroscopic materials such as nylon, PET, or polycarbonate. At IMS Company, we offer Dri-Air desiccant dryers engineered for efficiency, reliability, and precision. One of the most common questions…
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Mold Cleaners

In Injection Molding 1. Maintain Mold Integrity & Longevity Residue from polymers, release agents, and contaminants can accumulate on mold surfaces. Mold cleaners help remove these, preventing wear and corrosion. Regular cleaning reduces costly mold repairs or replacements, preserving precision tooling. 2. Ensuring Product Quality Contaminants on the mold can lead to defects such as…
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Prepare Your Shop for Winter

Preparing an injection molding shop for the cold winter months requires both practical and strategic measures to ensure the machines and processes run efficiently despite the drop in temperature. Here are suggestions of actions you can take now. 1. Temperature Control Inspect doors, windows, and walls for drafts and seal any gaps to retain heat.…
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Part Diverting Systems

Automatically Sort Bad Parts From Good Parts 3/25/2024 General Description: A part diverter is used to change the direction of a shot of parts, the discharge of a complete cycle or cycles of parts from an injection molding machine. IMS offers two different styles of part diverters (also known as “part discriminators” in the injection…
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Plastic Granulators

Granulators (sometimes referred to as grinders) are machines used to reduce scrap plastic parts or other plastic waste into a reusable form. This material – regrind – is sometimes put right back into the process to create the same parts. Other times it is reprocessed and re-pelletized for reuse. Occasionally material is turned into a…
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Safety First!

June 20, 2022 On November 3, 2021 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported private industry employers documented 2.7 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2020, down from 2.8 million in 2019, a decrease of 5.7 percent. Keep your people safe and your business running smoothly. While it may lack the bells and whistles, Workplace…
