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Look closely at any tonnage on our site and you will find an asterisk next to it. LOG S8 90 Ton*. LOG S8 250 Ton*. It is easy to skim

Ask a buyer about tonnage and they have an answer ready. Ask about injection pressure and the conversation usually stops, which is odd, because pressure is the force that actually

Cycle time is the one specification that compounds. A machine that runs a second faster does not save you a second. It saves you a second on every shot, of

Buyers ask about tonnage. Occasionally they ask about shot size. Almost nobody asks about the screw, which is unfortunate, because the screw is where your material either melts properly or

Tonnage gets all the attention. It is the number on the machine, the number in the model name, the number buyers lead with when they call. And it is only

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a plant when a new machine arrives, the mold is brought over on a forklift, and it becomes apparent that

In the last post we split the shot into two phases and said fill pressure gets the melt to the end of the cavity, while holding pressure keeps the part

Both the S8 and S9 are LOG IMM servo injection molding machines covering 90 to 650 tons. The right choice depends on your specific application requirements, not just the tonnage.

Servo injection molding machines are described as “energy-saving” everywhere. But how much energy do they actually save, where does the saving come from, and when does it matter most for

Too little clamping force causes flash and bad parts. Too much wastes money and stresses the mold. Here is the straightforward method for calculating what you actually need before you