Lumina 2400HE This Wilmington injection molding machine (IMM) has 500 tons of clamping force with an 80-inch-by-70-inch platen. Like the rest of the company’s IMM offerings, it’s equipped with gas-assist capabilities, allowing users to make the switch from high-pressure molds to lower-density structural foam.
What’s new? Optional, updated, more user-friendly controls with a larger, 24-inch touch screen, configurable process graphing, and integrated gas-assist and hot-runner controllers. The machine also features a quick mold-change system. The company offers the machine as part of its general-purpose IMM lineup, and has recently installed a machine in its own lab, where it’s available on a contract basis for customers looking to trial new materials, additives, fillers, compounds or molds, or just to experiment.
Benefits The possibility of making large parts using gas-assisted molding — a lower-pressure process. Also, users of Wilmington IMMs can convert recycled flake directly into parts, avoiding the need for pelletization.
Wilmington Machinery Inc., Wilmington, N.C., 910-452-5090, https://wilmingtonmachinery.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.
