A UK FIRST AT PDM EVENT 2008 FOR RAPID TEMPERATURE CYCLING (RTC™)
HALL 2 STAND K28 APRIL 15TH TO 17TH

GIWW will be showing control equipment and moulded examples of Rapid Temperature Cycling (RTC™) for the first time in the UK at the Plastics Design and Moulding Event 2008.  The event will be taking place at Telford International Centre form 15th to 17th April and GIWW will be in Hall 2 on stand K28. For directions to the event go to PDM Event Directions.

RTC™ is achieving spectacular benefits of improved surface finish including high gloss and elimination of weld and flow lines.  Filled materials can be moulded with resin rich surfaces of unfilled material quality.  In mould pressures are reduced and flow paths extended. Paint finishing can often become unnecessary.

Raymond Foad, sales director of GIWW Limited, says “RTC™ is possibly the most exciting development in the basic injection moulding process over the last twenty years and positions GIWW Limited as the UK market leader in the technology. We are now able to offer our customers not only world class Gas Assisted Moulding equipment, but with the development of RTC™ technology a new process that enables moulders, for the first time, to produce high gloss weld line free parts straight from the mould tool.”  

GIWW is offering four alternative temperature cycling methods of heating the mould cavity:

▪ Steam at temparatures up to 180°C
▪ Induction Heating of the mould surface internally or externally
▪ Hot Water at temparatures up to 160°C
▪ Hot  Oil at temperatures up to 350°C

The RTC™ version of temperature cycling of moulds has been developed in the UK in collaboration with GIWW’s associated company Oxford Moulding Technology Limited (OMT) which has benefited from technology contributions from the Universities of Oxford and Swansea.