CASE STUDIES
What is conformal cooling?
It is the dream of all toolmakers to have cooling channels running in area of the tool that are unreachable with conventional machining.
Additive manufacturing it makes possible to build complex,spiral,flexible shape cooling channel in molds.
Effective cooling it makes possible to reduce the cooling time in injection molding.Cooling time can take up to %70 of cycle time.The more efficient the cooling is, the shorter the cycle becomes.
Providing very efficient and uniform heat transfer from injected parts not only reduces the cycle time,but also minimises warpages and part deformations that might appear due to uneven temperature distribution.
Benefits of Conformal Cooling
The use of conformal cooling channels brings two main benefits:
– Cycle time decrease up to 30-40 %
– Reduction of part deformation
–Homogeneous thermal process of inserts
–Reduced sink marks
–Reduced hot spot are of plastic parts
Servıces
Contermad combine 3d metal printing with conventional machining for without
finish operation for customer.Our inserts dont need any additional operations in mold.
After 3d metal printing,we can make EDM process,polishing,finishing CNC and another machining process,so our customer can use this insert directly in their mold.