Just a year after the mammoth K 2013 show in Dusseldorf, Fakuma 2014 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, presented a substantial crop of new developments in hot runners and tooling. Among these were an unusual "variable-pitch" hot-runner manifold system; a mold controller for all sorts of servo movements—not just valve pins; 3D printed plastic mold inserts; and flexible, conformable cooling channels.
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