NPE Booth W223
Cap-Line These Netstal injection molding machines are specifically pre-configured for manufacturers’ applications. At NPE, Netstal will display a Cap-Line 4500 based on the company’s Elios platform, with an all-electric clamping unit that has a dry cycle time of 1.4 seconds and 506 tons of clamping force. The display is based on a production system used by U.S. contract manufacturer Alltrista Plastics LLC, Greer, S.C., producing 26mm tamper-evident caps for still water. The system features a 128-cavity mold from Z-Moulds GmbH, Dornbirn, Austria, that is as small and light as a 96-cavity mold.
What’s new? A new barrier screw with a design that ensures higher plasticizing performance and better homogenization, and allows the use of a smaller injection unit.
Benefits Optimized production of closures. Netstal said that the production system is the world’s first to break the 2-second mark running a mold with 128 cavities — with a cycle time of 1.9 seconds. The company also said that while running the mold, the Cap-Line 4500 consumes about 12 percent less electricity than competitor machines operating with only 96 cavities. The machine also can be enhanced with options such as the four-key Smart Operation control panel and adaptive system pressure reduction, which can increase energy savings.
Netstal Inc., Hebron, Ky., 859-495-5469, www.netstal.com
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
