El-Exis SP 300 Molds Over 130,000 Precision Caps Per Hour
To open its NPE 2018 exhibit, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery North America, Inc. demonstrated fast-cycle, high-cavitation caps molding on its ultra-high-speed El-Exis SP hybrid. Molding over 130,000 caps per hour, a waterfall of 72 caps is ejected from the z-moulds hot runner mold on a sub 2-second cycle. The HDPE (MFI 7) material for the 1-gram caps was contributed to the demo by NOVA Chemicals. Read more…