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The Plastic Tooling Market
Materion Corporation has significant experience in developing high conductivity alloys that can be readily machined and formed into complex mold shapes with outstanding surface finishes that are needed for the injection and blow molding plastic tooling market.
Copper Mold Alloys
We offer a variety of copper mold alloys to fit each customer’s unique needs and maximize their productivity. Our MoldMAX® copper beryllium alloys include MoldMAX HH® (high hardness), MoldMAX LH® (low hardness) and PROTherm® (super conductivity) alloys. We also offer alloys such as MoldMAX XL® and MoldMAX V®.
- MoldMAX HH® is our premier copper mold alloy. This alloy has a hardness and strength comparable to standard tool steels, but its thermal conductivity is four to six times higher. MoldMAX HH® is used for injection mold cores and cavities and blow mold pinch-offs. Its high hardness provides durability in applications where other high conductivity copper alloys fail.
- MoldMAX LH® is a premium copper mold alloy that provides hardness and strength, comparable with standard AISI P-20 tool steel, and a thermal conductivity five times higher. It is used for injection mold cores and cavities where moderate hardness and high toughness and conductivity are required.
- PROTherm®, a high conductivity copper mold alloy with good strength, is used for blow mold cavities, injection mold cores and cavities and hot runners. The alloy has the highest conductivity of any alloy tensile strength in excess of 100,000 psi.
- MoldMAX XL®, a high strength copper mold alloy with good thermal conductivity, is based on our ground-breaking Equacast™ process, a patented method of casting a copper-nickel-tin spinodal alloy, and is available in sections as large as 12 inches thick. The alloy’s hardness is comparable with AISI P-20 tool steel, but its thermal conductivity is two to three times higher.
- MoldMAX XL® is used as injection mold cores and cavities and provides excellent toughness, wear resistance and surface finish. It typically machines faster than tool steels, and with appropriate machine tools, metal removal rates several times higher can be obtained.
- MoldMAX V® is a high conductivity, moderately high strength, copper nickel silicon chromium alloy. Applications include injection mold and blow mold cores and cavities.
Why Materion Corporation?
All MoldMAX® products are high performance alloys specifically designed for the plastic processing market. They offer a unique combination of thermal conductivity and strength, and machinability that provides important benefits for the molding process, including reduced cycle times, lower scrap rates and lower mold costs.
Plastic Tooling for the Industrial and Commercial Aerospace Market
Obtain unique product solutions for your plastic tooling needs, contact Materion Corporation today.
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