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Mold Craft tool to help showcase Sodick Plustech's new micro molding machine at NPE2012

3/13/2012

Mold Craft Inc. (booth 1295) will showcase a 4-cavity mold for very small parts at NPE2012. The "funnel tip" component for a medical customer of Mold Craft's will run in the new Sodick Plustech LP20EH2 Micro Molding series with a 12-mm diameter plunger. Sodick's booth is #363.

The funnel tip, which was molded of PEEK, has a minimum thin wall section of 0.008 inch. Designed and built by Mold Craft, the tool incorporates the patented MeltFilpper technology from Beaumont Technologies. The part is 1.3 inches long by .054 inch at the top of the funnel and .039 inch at the tip.

According to Jim Liddel, new business development for Mold Craft, the mold started out as a single-cavity tool designed in a larger mold base to accommodate expansion. "To prove out the design, Sodick ran the mold and it worked so well that the mold was then expanded to four cavities," he states. "Eventually, the mold will be an 8-cavity tool."

Mold Craft worked with Beaumont Technologies to verify the mold design using Beaumont's proprietary VeriFlo mold-filling analysis software. Melt Flipper was used in the mold because there was concern about the material flow and being able to fill the cavities evenly using PEEK material. "The mold-filling analysis revealed a number of negative effects from shear," notes Liddel. "The MeltFlipper technology eliminated those concerns."

A mold manufacturer that typically specializes in high-cavitation production molds for the medical, connector, and electrical markets, Mold Craft also creates MIM molds for a variety of industries.

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