Milacron has launched its latest co-injection moulding machine, with a Kortec hot runner and on-demand co-injection engineering support for advanced integration and run off services.

The seaweed plastics start-up Loliware has launched a grade of its resins for injection molding. The materials have been fashioned into what the company calls the world’s first seaweed-based utensil set. Loliware says its materials can biodegrade as fast as banana peels.

Steve Morris, President Milacron Systems explained: “We have perfected the plastic industry’s first and only co-injection retrofit offering; the Kortec Connect System from Milacron.”

Kortec Connect incorporates a moulder’s existing injection moulding machine using Mold-Masters innovative and proven E-Multi secondary injection unit in combination with a Kortec co-injection hot runner. Milacron has over 30 years of co-injection experience and over 100 systems in the field, 7,000 drops across a variety of market landscapes producing 12 billion parts in 18 countries. No other co-injection technology offering has the same experience.

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We’ve combined the 30 plus years of experience from our Kortec co-injection melt delivery technology and used the highly successful Mold-Masters E-Multi secondary injection unit to offer customers a cost-effective entry into the high growth co-injection moulding market. Kortec Connect can be used on any qualified brand of injection moulding machine, it’s totally machine agnostic, provided it has the required performance specifics to mould the parts. The Kortec Connect offering has been used successfully in moulding coffee cups, caps, closures, personal care items, thinwall and medical parts and it can also be added to a PET monolayer system introducing the ability to mould barrier performs at a fraction of the cost while avoiding an investment in a dedicated PET co-injection press.”

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The Kortec Connect system offers customers Kortec co-injection hot runner designs and combines it with Mold-Masters E-Multi secondary injection unit, allowing moulders a cost-effective entry into co-injection moulding.

Kortec Connect gives co-injection at a lower capital cost with flexibility to move co-injection technology throughout a facility, eliminating the need for a dedicated co-injection work cell.