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Create special effects with color dosing unit.


A new add-on dosing unit allows molders to produce special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques.  by precisely controlling when a colorant col·or·ant  
n.
Something, especially a dye, pigment, ink, or paint, that colors or modifies the hue of something else.

adj.
Of or being a subtractive primary color.
 or additive is introduced during the injection cycle. The result can be controlled layers, streaks, or swirls of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.

See also: Color
 that are not uniformly blended with the base resin. These effects are produced by the AddMix device from AddMix/Almo Ltd. in London, England. The firm is represented in the French Canadian territory, by Lutek in Dorval, Que.

This volumetric volumetric /vol·u·met·ric/ (vol?u-met´rik) pertaining to or accompanied by measurement in volumes.

vol·u·met·ric
adj.
Of or relating to measurement by volume.
 dispensing unit mounts atop an injection press and has a central chamber with four side chambers to hold the colorants or additives. The colorants can be added to the central chamber in precise layers according to colorant recipes stored in the controller. Tel: +44 208 459 8123 * PTDirect: 294FD
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Title Annotation:Injection Molding
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Jul 1, 2004
Words:125
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