Watlow's high-performance thick film nozzle and manifold heaters provide molders with a low-profile solution with not only performance-related improvements but also process-related cost-savings. Advantages include:
- Increased zone population density
- Reduction in mould-height by eliminating the additional steel required for tubular heater channels
- The ability to run higher cavity molds on smaller machines
- Energy savings due to superior heat transfer
Processors also realize enhanced production efficiencies due to the added hot runner precision of the thermal profile as well as reducing cycle times, material scrap and overall system costs.
Watlow combines over 80 years of thermal system development with expertise in finite element analysis (FEA), allowing molders to optimise the thermal profile of their molds and the internal wattage distribution of heaters to insure that the most favourable patterns are realized.
Regardless of the nozzle or manifold, Watlow has the solution to meet the need.
Hot Runner applications include:
- Transportation
- Packaging
- Building & Construction
- Toys
- Electrical
- Electronics
- Furniture & Furnishings
- Consumer & Institutional
- Industrial & Machinery
- Medical
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In hot runner systems, temperature uniformity is critical to insure balanced melt flow delivery for part-to-part consistency as well as preventing runner obstructions and material degradation.