Thin-film heating technology cuts energy consumption during moulding

摘要

The Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg, Germany, has developed thin-film heating technology which claims to reduce energy consumption in injection moulding by as much as 90% compared with conventional practices. This is achieved by heating only the part of the tooling that comes into contact with the plastic melt, or in the case of PIM, the plasticised feedstock.