Product Previews
Addcomp North America Inc.
Booth 1978
PRIEX® coupling agents feature a functional group of maleic anhydride (MAH) grafted onto a polyolefin backbone. Their use enhances the strength of glass-reinforced composites by bonding the polyolefin matrix to the reinforcing strands. Greater coupling increases both tensile and impact strength. Additive solutions incorporating PRIEX coupling agents can facilitate the use of natural-fiber reinforcements by helping the polymer matrix coat the fibers, improving structural properties and reducing moisture absorption. The purity of PRIEX products can reduce emissions of VOCs. Additional environmental benefits could be realized by the use of PRIEX additives to compatibilize dissimilar materials for effective recycling.
Adescor Inc.
Booth 2041
Strapping and Banding Heads designed for integration into a manufacturers packaging line. Adescor offer custom strapping systems for automation of pipe, profile and continuous flow processes typical to extrusion plants and high speed coiling and crating. Adescor will have a working strapping head on demonstration at Plast-ex - booth 2041 - so please visit to talk about your bundling and packaging needs. Well be happy to demonstrate how our system works. Adescor are a downstream equipment automation company specializing in pipe, profile and automation equipment with design and manufacturing located in Exeter Ontario.
Adescor Inc.
Booth 2041
ADESCOR is displaying a thermal fusion strapping head as a standalone unit for integration into your machine. Shown below is our Horizontal strap track model, for surrounding product. The unit can also be setup with vertical and fixed strap tracks. The Adescor strapping head can be configured for various widths and types of plastic banding straps. The Adescor strap head can be purchased with customer supplied controls, or with an Adescor control package using digital commands for interfacing to the customer. Come and see us at Booth 2041
ASACLEAN - Sun Plastech Inc.
Booth 1939
Sun Plastech Inc. features the PX Grade, a new "High Temperature" grade of ASACLEAN Purging Compound at PLAST-EX show. ASACLEAN PX is a glass-filled grade offering a service temperature range of 270°C - 420°C. The PX Grade is suitable to purge "super-engineering resins" such as PEEK, PPS, Ultem, and LCP from thermoplastic injection molding machines and extruders. The PX Grade was specifically designed to provide excellent cleaning at higher processing temperatures while emitting low smoke and odor (which can be common occurrences when purging high-heat resins).
Canadian Plastics Industry Association/CPIA
Web: http://www.plastics.ca
Booth 2124
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) is the voice of the Canadian plastics industry. The CPIA is a dynamic, member-driven organization dedicated to the growth of Canadian plastics businesses and helping the industry reach its full potential. From reputation enhancement to special product issues and post-use recovery, the association is driven to create the right conditions for a vibrant and sustainable Canadian plastics industry.
Control Solutions Inc.
Booth 2177
Gammaflux has introduced software enhancements to its TTC hot runner temperature controllers. The result is reduced hot runner system downtime and improved productivity.
New software enhancements to the Gammaflux TTC line of hot runner temperature controllers include:
-Sequence Start for automated, safe, controlled heat-up of hot runner system to desired setpoint;
-Even Cool for automated, safe, controlled cool-down of hot runner system;
-PDF Viewer for importing any PDF document into controller;
-Programmable PDF Report Generation for up to one year storage of key reports on controller;
-Watt Alarm automatic set point calculation for easier leak detection, and
-Copy Output function for sending the same output from one control zone to additional zones.
Control Solutions Inc.
Booth 2177
PRIAMUS System Technologies is the global leader in automatic melt front detection based process control solutions for thermoplastic and LSR injection molding. PRIAMUS offers new in-cavity material viscosity controls as part of its "Blue Line." Using mold-filling analyses, shear stress and shear rate values can be matched for faster mold start-up. PRIAMUS provides "lights-out" manufacturing capabilities for medical, automotive, packaging, consumer and other applications. Customer benefits include: cycle time reduction, elimination of post- mold inspection, material usage reduction and faster determination of the optimum process operating conditions.
Control Solutions Inc.
Booth 2177
SYSCON-PlantStar is the leading supplier of real-time production and process monitoring systems for the plastics industry. Features include user friendly browser based touch screen interfaces, KanBan scheduling, RJG Interface, User Defined OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), up to 50 process variables per machine, bar code printing, family tool tracking and much more. No system offers as much fault tolerance as PlantStar, giving added protection to your important production and process data. PlantStar's flexible architecture enables you to start small and phase in functionality to optimize your shop floor data gathering.
Datacolor
Booth 2077
Datacolor TOOLS(R) 2.0 Smart Color QC Analysis, Visualization and Communication
Datacolor TOOLS 2.0 a modern, easy to use and feature rich Color-QC application for textile, paint, plastic, ink, paper and cosmetics industries and global textile and automotive supply chain members. It enables customers to analyze, report, communicate and visualize accurate color QC results. All of this in a modern, convenient and flexible way, which results in more efficient processes and greater productivity for colored goods.
Datacolor
Booth 2077
Datacolor 650® High Performance Transmittance and reflectance measurements
The Datacolor 650 is the ultimate flexible spectrophotometer, featuring unparalleled accuracy for both Reflection and transmission - the perfect solution for plastics and dye manufacturers requiring the best results for color matching a wide variety of materials.
Datacolor
Booth 2077
Datacolor Guardian(TM)
Unique Predictive Maintenance Instrument Monitoring Service
Every day, your business and your customers depend on your color management system to perform at the highest, most reliable level possible. Datacolor recognizes that your business is global and needs to run effectively 24/7.
Now Datacolor Guardian offers you comprehensive, ongoing service and support, giving you peace of mind at a very affordable price.
Datacolor
Booth 2077
Datacolor SELECT QC PRECISE AND AFFORDABLE COLOR CONTROL SOLUTION
Datacolor SELECT QC, the accurate and reliable entry-level color QC solution. A variety of industrial applications, including plastic processing, require an easy to use, but precise Color QC solution to monitor and report the accuracy of their daily production. Datacolor SELECT QC combines a very precise, portable Colorimeter and the most intuitive and robust Color QC software on the market today. Precise, objective color control at the price point of a light booth, allows industrial users to achieve accurate and repeatable color control. Internal color quality becomes traceable and operational efficiency improves.
Datacolor
Booth 2077
Datacolor Match® Pigment Intelligent Color Matching Software
Datacolor Match Pigment is an intelligent color formulation solution for paint, plastic, ink and cosmetics industries, which enables you to generate the best formula for your color quickly and easily, resulting in a more efficient process and greater productivity. Customize your matching with many different criteria, and Datacolor Match Pigment
adapts to your workflow.
Dyna-Purge, a Div. of Shuman Plastics Inc.
Booth 2054
Dyna-Purge Division of Shuman Plastics, Inc. officially introduces its New & Improved Dyna-Purge M to the Canadian market at Plast-Ex 2011 in Toronto.
With the addition of the new proprietary additive, Dyna-Purge M offers more cleaning than ever before. Two non-melting but softening ingredients scrub, while a proprietary additive helps to remove contamination without leaving a residue. New & Improved Dyna-Purge M gives you distinct advantages over the competition: Lower scrap rates, less purging compound needed, improved change-over times and the ability to achieve consistent and reliable results. Please visit our website for your free sample today.
Engel Canada Inc.
Web: http://www.engelglobal.com/na
Booth 1913
Fully electric, with a cycle time to meet packaging industry demands, the newly developed ENGEL e-cap machine delivers on packaging market requirements: short cycle times, high flexibility, and low energy consumption. Peak performance and maximum output. This machine series features a new premium quality injection unit, increased ejector force and reinforced clamping drive. Being fully electric, the machine is extremely energy-efficient, has low cooling water requirements and offers an impressive level of availability -- all helping keep running costs at a modest level. Packed in a clean, solid, economical system. ENGEL packaging: securing your productivity.
Inkcups Now Corp.
Booth 1916
ICN-2200PS is a two-color sealed inkcup Pad Printer with a dual-position pneumatic Pad Slide mechanism, geared to industrial speeds/volumes. The Pad Slide enables very fast two-color print cycle, simplifies part fixturing and assures flawless second color registration on plastic housings, injection molded parts, label-free garments etc. The mechanism accommodates large pads and is extremely heavy-duty, surpassing most other designs on the market in capabilities and durability. The membrane touch control makes setup features (pad stroke, pad delay, ink mixing, ink pick up frequency) easily programmable. The XYR micro-adjust plate holder and tool-less quick adjust pad mounts further reduce make-ready time.
Inkcups Now Corp.
Booth 1916
B100 is a heavy-duty single-color tabletop pad printer for Apparel Tag printing directly onto t-shirts, underwear, uniforms - producing softhand, crisp and wash-resistant images on cotton, nylon, fleece, ribbed textiles. The advantages over heat transfer and sewn-in labeling include dramatic cost savings and branding flexibility. The B100 is also perfectly suited for printing plastic parts up to 4.25" high. It has pad compression capability of 120 lbs at 80 PSI and incorporates the patented VersaCup inkcup assembly with two-sided ceramic ring and tool-less setup to support rapid job changeover. The variable inking and print frequency controls allow regulating print opacity.
Inkcups Now Corp.
Booth 1916
B150 Pad Printer is a benchtop industrial-grade single-color printer with 150mm inkcup enabling images up to 140mm in diameter. The compression capability of 779lbs allows for easy handling of large, hard print pads providing highest quality images on plastic housings, injection molded parts, label-free garments, bezels and products up to 5.5" inches high (including fixture). Unlike most competitors' pad printers of a similar size, the B150 features the ability to program variable pad delays (both over the plate and the part), print speed and double print function, which gives the operator complete control over the printing cycle and print opacity.
JDL Technical Services
Booth 2247
PLANTOOL CAPACITY PLANNING / SCHEDULING SOFTWARE developed for moldmakers. Providing reliable delivery dates for tools to customers and keeping the customers updated about the current status of the tool building progress is very important without doubt.
Based on a quotation whether generated in Excel or with Perfect CalCard Quoting Software, PlanTool can calculate the earliest possible delivery date within seconds considering the current workload and capacity in the tool shop and display it in a GANTT chart. Easily follow the current order status while having the ability to change order priorities and see how this affects all other current projects.
JDL Technical Services
Booth 2247
PERFECT CALCARD COST ESTIMATING SOFTWARE allows users to quote molds & parts quickly & accurately. CalCard is completely customizable by easily setting up your own pre-set profiles or templates to reduce many of the redundancies common in the quoting process. Whether you are quoting for different customers, company standards, or multiple locations, simply input part data and pick the appropriate profile developed to quickly and accurately get full tooling or part costs. Easily customizable and user friendly, CalCard is a smart solution for companies of all sizes from moldmakers and custom molders to Tier level suppliers and OEMs allowing a consistent method of quoting company-wide.
JDL Technical Services
Booth 2247
DZynSource - Mold Engineering Calculations Software your plastics industry resource and desktop engineering calculator for mold designers, engineers, processors, etc.
Numerous calculations & tools available to optimize mold cooling, plan for thermal expansion and contraction, specify chillers, cylinders, valves, and pumps, size mold plates appropriately, specify correct components and fasteners, troubleshoot molds and molding processes. Several built-in calculators for production, molding, machining, unscrewing molds, threads, runners vents, etc plus conversions.
Using DZynSource you can build better molds the first time. Over-design is expensive and under-design can be disastrous.
Jesse Garant & Associates - Metrology Center
Booth 2354
The Metrology Center at Jesse Garant & Associates provides Industrial CT Scanning Services. By utilizing our Industrial CT Scanning Inspection Services, clients are able to drastically reduce preproduction inspection costs and analyze internal failures quickly and accurately in 3D without destructive testing. Benefits of Industrial CT Scanning for the medical industry include; delicate and fragile parts can be scanned in a free state environment, internal accuracy can be guaranteed as low as ±0.0002 or ±6 microns, internal complex part features can be precisely measured without destructive testing, and inspection and analysis costs from first article to production are significantly reduced.
Meech Static Eliminators USA
Booth 2079
The new 994-IML generator works in conjunction with the recently introduced Meech Hydra, a miniaturised in-mold labelling pinning system specifically designed for use in situations where small items are being molded. The 994 Hydra systems overcome many of the issues encountered with other commonly used in-mold labelling technologies and because of this the purchase and running costs are reduced significantly. The standard 994 Hydra systems consists of resistively coupled distributors connected in parallel to the new 994 IML generator. The distributors provide independent, spark-free, operation of the pinning heads. The pinning heads are only 15 mm long x 5 mm diameter.
Progressive Components
Web: http://www.procomps.com
Booth 2357
Progressive Components, headquartered near Chicago, Illinois, develops and distributes components for the production tooling industry. At Plast-Ex, Progressive will feature what's new in components and systems for injection moulds, including:
- CVe Monitor: Know the activity of your tools.
- ProtoBridge Tool System: Kit-style components for packaging applications.
- Innovative Components: Expandable Cavities, Lifter Blades, Slide Retainers, etc.
Off-the-shelf standards designed to speed mould building and reduce costs and downtime are provided throughout a network of locations including regional hubs in England and Singapore. Visit Progressive at Plast-Ex in Booth 2357.
Ranger Automation Systems
Booth 1819
NEW RTA-SERIES ROBOTS KEEP PACE WITH THE FASTEST MOLDING APPLICATIONS: The new RTA Robots from Ranger Automation Systems are powered by ultra high speed digital servo drives to handle injection molding cycle times as fast as 5 seconds. The streamlined design features a unique aluminum extrusion strip axis and vertical arm along with externally-mounted traverse drive to minimize the mass of the moving carriage while maintaining rigidity. With available Double-Arm configuration for stack-molds, or Servo-Wrist for more precise rotation of end-of-arm tooling, the RTA Servo Robot is today's best choice for precision molding markets including medical, packaging and electronics.
STANMECH Technologies Inc.
Web: http://www.stanmech.com
Booth 2147
The WELDPLAST S2 hand-held extrusion welder is ergonomically designed with a rotatable handle, 360º rotatable welding shoe and twist-free rod feed design. The revolutionary, maintenance-free motor and low-noise, high-power drive system provide great performance with up to 2.5 kg of output per hour despite the tools small size. During use, the integrated microprocessor monitors the tool, regulates the welding process and provides closed-loop control for plast and pre-heat temperatures. The multi-function, menu driven, illuminated display is suitable for all operating conditions and includes one button settings for common materials. Be sure to stop by our booth to see this tool.
Strouse Corp., The
Booth 2120
Strouse takes complex manufacturing and assembly design problems and engineer them into solutions that fit seamlessly into their customers’ assembly process. It's not just choosing the right 3M material-it's designing a solution that delivers that converted material in the most effective and efficient manner possible.
Strouse provides...
• Team of Engineers
• Rapid prototyping and 'Sample Express’ program
• Extensive material knowledge
• Reduce labor and improve performance, saving time and money.
Teknor Apex Co.
Booth 2153
Apex RE-8003 is a high-impact rigid vinyl compound for profiles that complies with the most rigorous UL-94 classification for flame performance while yielding finely detailed structures and the smooth, clean finish required in many interior applications. The compound has achieved the most stringent UL-94 flammability classification5VAat a test sample thickness lower than for any other rigid profile compound. While the lowest wall thickness thus far has been 1.5 mm, Apex RE-8003 passed the test at 0.9 mm. Teknor Apex recommends the rigid compound for applications in furniture, building products, and retail displays.
Victrex Polymer Solutions
Booth 2272
Victrex Polymer Solutions is exclusively focused on the development, manufacture and sale of high performance polyaryletherketones such as VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, APTIV® Films, VICOTE® Coatings, VICTREX Pipes™, and VICTREX PEEK polymer-based Composites. This advanced polymer product family includes standard pellet and powder grades for extrusion, injection and compression molding, and specialty compounds to meet your application designs and developments. These materials have been used to replace metals and other high performance polymers in aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, industrial, medical, oil and gas, and semiconductor applications. For over 30 years, Victrex has consistently delivered specialty products and services to customers globally.
X-Rite / Pantone
Booth 2170
Color i5 & Color i7 with iMatch Software Color control is tough enough - color measurement shouldn't be. X-Rites benchtop spectrophotometers the Color i7 and Color i5 offer reliable digital workflow and error free measurement on all sizes, shapes, textures and opacity levels - including gloss, optically brightened materials, films, liquids, powders and more. The benchtops give you the speed and flexibility required to meet demanding product schedules. Used in conjunction with Color iMatch, a color formulation software, the package enables quick, accurate color analysis and the capability to optimize every formula for cost and color accuracy.
X-Rite / Pantone
Booth 2170
Automated Closed-Loop Color Control (ACLCC) system
One exciting new technology is the Automated Closed-Loop Color Control (ACLCC) system, an automatic system for controlling color of extruded plastics through the use of X-Rite's VeriColor® high resolution spectrophotometer, a PLC running custom software and a volumetric color feeder. Three years in development, the ACLCC optimizes operator efficiency while ensuring consistent color quality throughout a production run. The system takes over much of the hand and eye work associated with production, providing an automated, in-line control system to eliminate color errors and product waste.
X-Rite Inc.
Booth 2170
The full line of SP Portable Sphere Spectrophotometers offers convenient, cost-efficient solutions designed to provide fast, precise color measurement information on plastic surfaces. The SP Family provide absolute and
difference measurements are displayed for a large number of colorimetric systems. Whether you are approving production samples or finished goods, the SP Family along with Color iQC software adapts to your workflow to make controlling color fast and easy. Color iQC is a job-oriented software solution that removes the guesswork from evaluating colors. It's easily adaptable and available in a variety of configurations to meet specific industry and quality control requirements.
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