NEX-V These Nissei all-electric injection molding machines (IMMs) are equipped with the company’s new Tact5 controller, designed for centralized management of auxiliary equipment, remote maintenance functions and MES support, along with a new standard screw, designed to ensure plasticization stability. Among other products, the machines — which have clamping forces from 33 tons to 397 tons — can be used to make containers and medical goods.
What’s new? The latest-generation NEX IMMs. At NPE, Nissei used an 88-ton NEX80V-9E Type IMM to make combs from a marine biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate-type polymer derived from corn or cassava. The material is prone to flash, but the company used its K-Sapli software, which optimizes clamping force, to prevent that problem. In addition, it used its 397-ton NEX360V-100LE Type IMM equipped with two add-on injection units to mold divided containers that consist of three different parts, each a different color, by injecting PP and PE into a single family mold. Such an application would normally require three IMMs, so the Nissei setup showed how users of the company’s machines can save equipment and energy costs, floor space and labor.
Benefits More efficient molding and the reduction of scrap.
Nissei America Inc., San Antonio, 714-693-3000, www.nisseiamerica.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.
