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Build your Hot-Runner System on the Web.


As a sign of a growing trend, Gunther Hot Runner A hot runner is an injection mold component containing a series of channels that distributes molten plastic within a mold to increase molding productivity through reduced waste, as the runners arent wasted each cycle by being ejected, as the plasic stays molten and gets used on the  Systems, West Chicago West Chicago, city (1990 pop. 14,796), Du Page co., NE Ill.; inc. 1906. Mostly residential, the city produces chemicals. , Ill., added to its website (www. gunther-usa.com) a Hot Runner Design Configurator that guides the user through building a virtual hot-runner system online. The CADHOC program aids the user in selecting the correct manifold manifold

In mathematics, a topological space (see topology) with a family of local coordinate systems related to each other by certain classes of coordinate transformations. Manifolds occur in algebraic geometry, differential equations, and classical dynamics.
 and nozzle An orifice in an inkjet print head through which ink is sprayed onto the paper. Print heads with six thousand or more nozzles are common in today's printers.
Nozzle 
 type---either from Gunther's Rapid line, available for two-week delivery, or from the entire catalog of custom systems. Either of these program selections takes 3 to 5 min. The user is then e-mailed a link to a complete 3D model or 2D system drawing that can be integrated into the mold design. Users can also select individual components and receive a 2D or 3D drawing file of that component. Tel: (800) 527-7867 * www.gunther-usa.com
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH Injection Molding
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Feb 1, 2007
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