Milacron’s innovative technologies help the auto industry achieve impressive reductions in vehicle weight and fuel consumption.  Total vehicle weight can be further reduced by multi-component parts, thin-walled body panels and dual durometer under-hood components. These advances lower manufacturing costs by reducing the numbers of parts and shortening assembly time.

Product Highlights

Wheel Cover Injection Molding Material: PC/ABS and Valox Technology: High Speed Automotive Machine: POWERLINE NT550 - 41 oz 70mm 30:1 Advantage: 50+% energy savings 15-20% cycle reductions Fast clamping; superior mold protection Highly efficient automated mold changes with magnetic mold clamps Parts continue to get thinner and larger diameter making it difficult to process. All-electric machines make it easy to keep tight tolerances, which is so important for parts requiring plating/painting after the injection molded process.

Side Seat Guard Injection Molding Material: PP and TPE Technology: Multi-component dual durometer Machine: POWERLINE NT935 - 72 oz 70mm 30:1 with second 5.8 oz. electric injection unit perpendicular Advantage: 50-60% energy reduction 20% cycle time savings due to overlapping of electric machine extruder run with second unit filling/packing/recovery Scrap reductions with all-electric repeatability. Enables dual durometer, hard/soft flexible areas within single part.

Under Hood Ducts Blow Molding Material: PP Technology: Parison Suction Machine: UMA 20 SH Industrial Accumulator Head Advantage: Seamless ducts 3 – D Applications Sequential Coextrusion Energy saving Easy deflashing Small clamp force