Vital Statistics
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Machine cell at NPE |
slim version of an e-mac 1565/310, which produced a bottle tray on a single-cavity mold |
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Injection unit |
1565 |
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Size of screw |
70mm |
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Cycle time |
43.5 seconds |
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Shot weight |
417.5 grams |
e-mac This series of small, all-electric injection molding machines from Engel comes in clamping forces ranging from 55 tons to 420 tons. According to the company, the presses are competitively priced, and a full range of options — including clean-room packages — are available.
What’s new? A line of more-compact versions of all e-mac models, known as the e-mac slim edition. At NPE, Engel will showcase an e-mac 1565/310 slim, which will produce a bottle tray on a single-cavity mold supplied by longtime Engel partner Haidlmair, Nussbach, Austria. Part of a recycling package comprising a melt filter and highly abrasion- and corrosion-resistant screw and a melt filter, the 310-ton machine on exhibit will make the tray from HDPE regrind, rather than repelletized material.
Benefits Up to a 16-percent reduction in overall machine width with no increase in length. As Engel plans to demonstrate, e-mac slim has a smaller footprint, but its generous mold space is unchanged, allowing it to accommodate large molds.
Engel Machinery Inc., York, Pa., 717-764-6818, www.engelglobal.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.
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