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ATI Industrial Automation
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
The CGV-900 offers built-in compliance, allowing the unit to compensate for irregularities in part surfaces and maintain contact with a workpiece. The compliance force is adjustable, so users can fine-tune finishing processes in real time.
Dmitry Kalinovsky | Dreamstime
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
Plasma - or laser - cutting achieves clean cuts that require less grinding or deburring in subsequent finishing steps.
acp systems AG
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
The wear-free two-substance ring nozzle generates a pulsed jet. It contains a valve specially developed for this purpose and achieves pulse times as fast as 20 milliseconds.
NW Machine Tool Expo
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Northwest Machine Tool Expo 2023

May 11, 2023 - May 12, 2023
Henkel
Three LOCTITE circular impregnation systems are installed in North America, and two more will be added this year.
Three LOCTITE circular impregnation systems are installed in North America, and two more will be added this year.
Three LOCTITE circular impregnation systems are installed in North America, and two more will be added this year.
Three LOCTITE circular impregnation systems are installed in North America, and two more will be added this year.
Three LOCTITE circular impregnation systems are installed in North America, and two more will be added this year.

Henkel Investing in Environmentally Friendly Impregnation

May 14, 2019
Five-step, vacuum-based porosity-sealing process also delivers water conservation results

Henkel has installed three of its LOCTITE® Circular Impregnation Systems for North American manufacturers seeking sealing for metal parts with an "environmentally friendly" five-step process.

Vacuum impregnation seals defects that form in molten metal as it solidifies during molding, defects that may include microscopic pores and leak paths in casting walls. A resin material fills the cracks or voids without changing a casting’s dimensional or functional characteristics.

Impregnation is particularly important for aluminum alloy castings, and demand for the process has expanded with the increases in production for high-pressure diecastings for automotive applications. Henkel noted the process is also used to seal electronics parts against fluids, gases and other external influences.

Henkel’s Transport & Metals business is part of its Henkel Adhesive Technologies unit, one of three operating in North America for the industrial and consumer products group.  Two of the vacuum-based LOCTITE systems are in place at the Henkel location in Muncie, IN, and a third is installed in Lincolnton, NC. Two more are scheduled to be installed later this year in Franklin Park, IL, and Monterrey, Mexico later this year.

The Circular Impregnation System seals parts using a five-step process that, according to the developer, reduces water usage by extracting and recycling excess resin so that the water can be reused, all while maintaining current productivity rates. Henkel claims it has reduced water usage up 90% (saving on average 6,300 gallons of water/week.)

“Our fully automated impregnation machines enhance quality control, reduce human error and deliver significant environmental and sustainability benefits,” stated Scott Simmons, business development manager. “Through recycling excess resin, we can maintain water quality for a much greater period of time, reducing the amount of water that needs to be sent to water treatment facilities each week.”

In addition to conserving process water, the system makes water-treatment more efficient, reduces production downtime (for changing water), and minimizes the consumption of the resin sealant.