White marker Company
White line
White marker The "5P-Management"
White line
Red marker - current page Products
White line
White marker Industries
White line
White marker Services
White line
White marker Spare parts inquiry       
White line
White marker Contact
White line
White marker DESMA up-to-date
White line
White marker Login
White marker Vertical machines
Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Horizontal machines Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Special series Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Injection units Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Control systems
Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Moulds / Cold runner blocks
   >  Overview technical mould centre
   >  STANDARD cold runners
   >  FlowControl - Hydraulically actuated needle-shaped shut-off cold runner
Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker Turnkey Engineering Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
White line
White marker DESFlex Blue arrow, pointing at the right side
Red marker  

FlowControl

Value-creating novelties for our customers

The patent pending FlowControl cold runner system developed by DESMA demonstrates state-of-the-art technology and maximum flexibility. We are particularly glad of having won the DKG Product Award 2006 in the category machines and equipment for this technology already launched!

DKG Product Award 2006

This breakthrough cold runner technology along with an innovative control of the individual nozzles through the injection moulding machine enables an unequalled arrangement of nozzles and their volume balancing. The cleaning in case of a compound change is also amazingly easy to perform. With a 9-nozzle FlowControl cold runner block with article direct injection (9 different article sizes) combined with the DESMA-patented DESFlex-system, a zero-waste article production will be presented on a horizontal DESMA 969.300 Zv (S1) completed by a highly innovative brushing and demoulding system. This special machine is our bestseller for precision articles within the range of seals.


DESMA FlowControl      Hydraulically actuated needle-shaped shut-off cold runner


Groundbreaking innovations in the CRB

The cold runner block (CRB) system FlowControl developed by DESMA with patent pending shut-off nozzles is - in addition to the article direct injection - more and more used as universal CRB for most various applications. In this context, special attention is not only given to fully avoiding runner waste, but to variable nozzle balancing. Every nozzle is fitted with a separate hydraulic cylinder which in connection with an outside arranged mechanism actuates the closing.
The prime advantage of FlowControl is that only a slight pressure drop occurs compared to customary CRBs with needle-shaped shut-off nozzles. This new shut-off technique along with hydraulic actuation is ideally suited for the use of high-viscosity elastomers, even in case of very high injection pressures. Owing to the separate activation of each individual nozzle combined with a special hydraulic system, any shut-off points are definable by the user via adequate input masks in the control system.

DESMA FlowControl      Hydraulically actuated needle-shaped shut-off cold runner


This technique is optionally available on all DESMA machines equipped with the control generation DRC 1210/2010 with particularly appropriate screen pages. The shut-off points per nozzle can be entered at the machine control unit either via the volume injected (piston position) or time-controlled. Thus, volume balancing through the machine control and storage of the balancing parameters together with the mould data record is possible. After a mould change, with keeping the CRB, the right nozzle balancing is automatically active upon loading the respective data record. Consequently, balancing facilitates the use of standardized CRBs distinctly.

Fields of application of the FlowControl technique are all kinds of elastomer articles, the article production of different sizes in one mould and also the direct injection of large-volume parts with several nozzles. The position of joining spots with large seals can be set in a flexible way.

>> Animated demonstration (Flash file)


>> Press information

>> Further press releases

To view the press information in pfd-format, the Adobe Reader is required.
Just click on the logo stated below to load it down.

Get Adobe Reader



Print page Print page (change to landscape please)
 
DKG Product Award 2006
Logo FlowControl
Klöckner DESMA
Elastomertechnik GmbH
An der Bära
78567 Fridingen
Germany