Special manifolds, wired systems and hot halves:

The manufacturing dedicated special manifolds, bi-injection multimaterial, sequential injection, with pneumatic or hydraulic valves, allows Thermoplay to meet the requirements in hot mould construction, applied to automotive, packaging, electronics, medical, electrics, aeronautics, micro-mechanics, hobbies, toys, domestics, etc.

Upon the customer's requirements Thermoplay can supply special hot channels either with the following characteristics:
A. Hot channels inside constraining manifolds (hot-half) which can be directly assembled in the printing plate.
B. Hot channels with electronic and hydraulic wirings, which can be directly assembled in the moulding system, without any further wiring.
C. Special manifolds including nozzles and accessories (ex. injection bushings), not assembled and without wirings.

In case of "special" manifold requirement, the dimensions indicated for the standard manifolds has not to be considered. In case the customer needs these information please contact Thermoplay or its representative for that country.


Standard manifolds with 2, 4, 6 and 8 cavities:

Thermoplay, in accordance with its experience in manufacturing thousands of manifolds for hot runner systems, has developped a complete new series of manifolds designed to provide reduced costs and quick deliveries. This series of "standard manifolds" will be available for 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 drop applications. Over 50 standard manifolds will now be available that can be used with nozzles of different diameters and the design of these manifolds allows the flexibility of different channel sizes so that either our type "D" nozzles or our new type "F" nozzles, in the different diameters, can be used.

The manifolds are fitted with cal rod heaters pressed into place to ensure even heating of the manifold and provide long heater life. Ceramic connectors are used on the heater leads to provide for the customer easy electrical connections as well as excellent insulation. One or more thermocouples are placed in the manifolds at a position suitable to detect and maintain the correct temperature for the material being processed. Since all of the dimensions for the manifolds and related accessories are available in our catalogue, mold design is greatly simplified and projects can be designed immediately thereby reducing the time to project completion.

Thermoplay will also continue to manufacture its current line of manifolds designed to meet customer requirements for "sandwich" molds, 2 materials or 2 colours, vertical injection for different customer defined applications.

Thickness of the following standards manifolds are executed only on this manifold type. special manifolds are manufactured differently and their thickness varies.