For many injection mold companies, electroplating is the way coatings have always been done. Companies in the U.S. have worked since the 1800s to hone electroplating processes and today it’s one of the most popular injection mold coatings available. It increases abrasion resistance and has high hardness when done right. However, you may be missing …
Don’t you hate it when you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on mold design and fabrication, you think through every possible issue and then a part still gets hung up in the tool? We understand. It’s these issues that keep our technical team working late to improve mold coatings. Release coatings are necessary to …
This is part 3 of a 3-part series Part 3: How to Buy a PVD Coating with No Fuss This is Part 3 of Alcadyne’s guide on how to make buying a PVD coating easier. Read Part 2 here and Part 1 here. In part 1 I discussed how buying a PVD coating is different …
Alcadyne’s primary coating process is physical vapor deposition (“PVD”) or PVD coating, a technique that describes a variety of vacuum deposition methods, such as cathodic arc, sputtering, and evaporation. PVD coatings are thin film coatings where a solid material is vaporized in a vacuum chamber and deposited onto a target material. It is used to …
Have you ever gone into surgery and just before they inject the sleepy stuff into your arm you think, “I wonder what color instruments the surgeon will be using on me?” Yeah, me too. I go one step further though – I wonder if the tools are coated with black titanium nitride. It’s all the …
Tale of a worn gate Injection mold components experience remarkable wear and tear as high temperature polymers, often with abrasive and corrosive additives, are injected into the mold. A challenge for many injection mold makers and plastic injection production teams is how to ensure that the mold components will not only last through several million …
