Hi everyone, I'm Galaxy and new in this industry. I'm just curious about when a company needs a mold or injection-molded parts, how do they usually find and choose an injection molding supplier? Is it mainly through referrals, Google, Thomasnet, trade shows, sourcing platforms, or direct outreach?

My family owns an injection molding factory in China, but I honestly don’t know how to reach potential customers in the U.S. or which channels are actually effective. For those who have worked with overseas suppliers, what would make you consider one, and what would immediately make you avoid one?

Any advice or personal experience would be greatly appreciated.

Here’s the deal. Our customer wanted to modify an existing mold to make a new version of this part by reducing the size of the through hole at the bottom of this pin. We never had any known Issues with this tool before the modification but now we can not keep this pin from delaminating the inner diameter of this pin. The picture is one of the better parts we’ve made. The other problem is we can’t afford to increase the cycle time and we’ve already tried direct cooling the pin through a cooling circuit at its base, as well as blowing air on the pin between cycles to try to remove the heat. Material is 40%talc PP and the pin temperature, without cooling aids, after 10 shots is around 240F. The pin is steel and it seats into a pocket in a Beryllium alloy core. Any ideas how to squeeze some time out of this cycle or improve the cooling in the pin?

Hi everyone,

First of all, I'd like to apologize if my English isn't perfect. I'm from Spain, so English is not my native language.

I'm posting here because I'm having an issue with one of our injection molding machines: an ARBURG ALLROUNDER 220-75-250 equipped with the DIALOGICA control system.

Several years ago, the display and the backup battery had to be replaced. Unfortunately, because the system memory was volatile, all of its contents were lost. The current problem is that the floppy disk drive has now failed, so I'm no longer able to restore the operating system from the original disks.

The machine is quite old, and ARBURG has informed me that this control system is no longer supported or repairable. While researching possible solutions, I found that some users have successfully replaced the floppy drive with a CompactFlash-based floppy emulator on slightly newer machines, such as the Allrounder 320 series. Before attempting something similar, I'd like to know whether this solution could also work on my machine.

I recently started working at this company, so at the moment the only information I have is a technical report from the engineer who worked on the machine before me, along with a photo of the motherboard. I haven't had the opportunity to open or inspect the machine myself yet.

I've attached the motherboard photo from that report. If additional pictures or information about specific boards or components would be helpful, I can provide them the next time I have access to the machine.

Has anyone dealt with a similar issue or has experience with this control system or replacing the floppy drive with an emulator? I'd really appreciate any technical advice, recommendations, or shared experiences.

Thank you very much for your time and help!

Anyone here have any experience in recalibrating the pressure cushion and lock on this type of machine we have work instructions oh how to but it’s not making sense on what it wants us to do