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The Greensboro, N.C.-based plastic products manufacturer has invested more than $1 million in material handling equipment, injection molding presses and its clean room. The firm added two new e-max injection molding presses from ENGEL—a worldwide manufacturer of injection molding machines—to its Class 100,000 clean room in March. The presses are 110 tons and 200 tons.
ENGEL’s e-max molding presses are fully electric, high performance injection units with peak pressures of up to 2,800 bar and up to 450 millimeters per second, according to data from the Austrian firm. The presses join a 60-ton ENGEL e-motion press that Core Technology officials had installed previously in the 1,500 square-foot clean room. ENGEL’s e-motion presses offer shorter dry-cycle times and shorter cycle times compared with hydraulic machines. The presses are available in the clamp force range from 550 kN to 2.800 kN. In the lower clamp range (up to 1500 kN), the machines are tie-barless; in the higher range they have tie-bars.
Core Technology’s investment in its molding equipment and clean room will enable the firm to produce parts for two new programs at Bausch & Lomb Inc. as well as parts for other medical products, Geoff Foster, Core’s president and CEO, said in published reports. Bausch & Lomb is Core’s largest customer; it supplies the eye care giant with parts for cataract and vitreoretinal surgery products.
Core Technology operates 25 molding presses and employs 85 people. The firm serves the medical device, automotive, electronics, industrial and transportation industries, among others. The company does not release earnings reports, though executives have said they expect sales to be 40 percent higher this year compared with 2009.
ENGEL’s e-max molding presses are fully electric, high performance injection units with peak pressures of up to 2,800 bar and up to 450 millimeters per second, according to data from the Austrian firm. The presses join a 60-ton ENGEL e-motion press that Core Technology officials had installed previously in the 1,500 square-foot clean room. ENGEL’s e-motion presses offer shorter dry-cycle times and shorter cycle times compared with hydraulic machines. The presses are available in the clamp force range from 550 kN to 2.800 kN. In the lower clamp range (up to 1500 kN), the machines are tie-barless; in the higher range they have tie-bars.
Core Technology’s investment in its molding equipment and clean room will enable the firm to produce parts for two new programs at Bausch & Lomb Inc. as well as parts for other medical products, Geoff Foster, Core’s president and CEO, said in published reports. Bausch & Lomb is Core’s largest customer; it supplies the eye care giant with parts for cataract and vitreoretinal surgery products.
Core Technology operates 25 molding presses and employs 85 people. The firm serves the medical device, automotive, electronics, industrial and transportation industries, among others. The company does not release earnings reports, though executives have said they expect sales to be 40 percent higher this year compared with 2009.