Effective finishing cleans up moulds and products

Rubber, plastics and polymer components and the moulds and dies that produce them provide many opportunities for customers to benefit from using highly effective finishing equipment.

Rubber, plastics and polymer components and the moulds and dies that produce them provide many opportunities for customers to benefit from using Guyson finishing equipment.

* Blast finishing - several recent installations of Guyson Euroblast PF machines have been to leading automotive interior manufacturers to improve the bonding of wood veneers, leather, rubber etc to interior superstructure components.

Effective bonding is helped immeasurably with a fine surface etch of the host material, which is often plastic.

These same Euroblast machines - benefiting from their side loader options - are also a preferred industry option for removing solidified and burnt on mould lubricants and similar encrusted deposits from the sensitive surfaces of heavy moulds and extrusion dies without damage or dimensional change.

These cabinets have proved to be particularly versatile in the use of low impact blast cleaning media and have created a wide range of mould and die cleaning opportunities where several new types of soft, non-abrasive media have proved suitable for cleaning the most sensitive surfaces which include chrome plated, aluminium and steel tooling.

On a larger scale Guyson's sister company in America - Guyson Corporation's SP-72 tyre mould cleaner is a world-beater; being installed in many of the major tyre company production sites around the globe.

* Ultrasonics - plastics and rubber manufacturers can also cut reject rates and prolong the working life of their dies and mould tools using Guyson's Kerry ultrasonic cleaning systems.

These systems are suitable for manufacturers of a wide variety of polymer products, ranging from u-PVC doors and windows to hip joints, toothpaste tubes and O-rings.

A simple ultrasonic clean and rinse is normally sufficient for window extrusion dies, whilst more complicated objects such as medical implants and O-rings require the thoroughness of a fully automated clean, two-stage rinse and hot air drying procedure, with high intensity ultrasonics being perfectly suited to the demanding surfaces of mould tools creating a fast, meticulous but gentle cleaning method.

Also considerable success lately has been had with the Kerry Microsolve Co-Solvent units for cleaning moulding gases from mould tools used to manufacture contact lens moulds.

As a result of a considerable lowering in the lens reject rates, increased throughput with lower operating costs have been achieved.

* Free component trials - whether your interest is in blast finishing, spray wash or ultrasonic equipment, Guyson offer free component trials, with no obligation to buy.

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