DLyte TurboFlow This electropolishing technology from DLyte, a brand of GPainnova, uses turbines, air and other flow mechanisms for smoothing out components with complex geometries. Designed to deliver perfect finishes across all dimensions, shapes and weights, it’s appropriate for use by mold makers as well as makers of plastic parts with demanding finish requirements. Targeted sectors include the automotive and aerospace industries.
What’s new? The technology, introduced in November during Formnext in Germany. It incorporates GPainnova’s new EasyFix design, which allows parts to be treated without the need for customized fixturing. With it, components can be processed in bulk using standard racks or crane cables.
Benefits Efficiency and superior finishing results, even when working with large or heavy parts and parts with complex shapes. With the EasyFix design, users can handle any metal, any weight and any size part in bulk, making the DLyte TurboFlow technology appropriate for handling even high-volume, low-value parts. Overall, electropolishing is more efficient and less labor-intensive than alternative techniques, such as abrasive finishing. It rectifies surface imperfections and helps prevent friction, mold damage and corrosion; also, with the mirror finishes it produces, it helps enable easy part release from the mold.
GPainnova America, Sunrise, Fla., 954-530-8277, www.dlyte.com, www.gpainnova.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.
