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System allows cheaper closed moulding.(PROCESSING)

High Performance Plastics, April, 2006

A simplified closed moulding system for the production of FRPs has been devised and introduced by Plastech TT, UK. Called the Monovac, as its name implies it features the use of only one vacuum source.

It is described by the company, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, as an introductory process for production moulders with limited resources, but who would like to enter the field of closed moulding.

The process only requires an inexpensive, moderate vacuum source and does not need meter mix injection equipment. This, the company says, allows it to offer the system at a low start-up price compared with standard closed moulding systems.

The system uses a matched mould set with a resin inlet and vacuum connection. Sealing on the edge of the mould is used...

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