Tag: Post-Production Equipment
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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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IMS Lime Buster

The Original Water System Descaler and Lime Eliminator! 3/2/2023 Use as mold maintenance or when a mold is removed from storage. Descaling mold water passages (channels within the mold through which coolant flows to control the temperature during the molding process) is an essential aspect of mold maintenance in injection molding. Over time, these passages…
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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…
