I have two goals with this newsletter; one to stay in touch with you and the other to present technologies and events that I think are helpful to rotomolders. 

This month, I am featuring a parting line coating and some brief information on the new liquid color. I hope you find this beneficial. As always, your comments are greatly appreciated - e-mail jstout@blue-reed.com.

Julie Stout - Editor
 

One of the presentations was by the charming George Barton of Chem-Trend. With his thick English accent, he touted the benefits of his releases. One product that really caught my attention was his Mono-Coat® 1459.

If you have read any of my newsletters in the past, you'll know that parting line care to a mold maker is like flossing to a dentist. When you don't do it, future repair business is booming.

This product is great for both immaculate molding operations and the not-so perfect where a little powder might remain on the parting lines.  If left to build up, the material wedges the parting line open creating an opportunity for future flash. A little flash leads to a little more trimming, then a little more touch-up, then a little more scrap. Soon you've got a whopping great parting line repair bill and a smiling mold maker.

Mono-Coat® 1459. (A little savior of parting lines.) ensures that, even if the flash is left in place through several cycles,  it will remain easily removable in later cycles, because the product does not thermally degrade, or even creep away from the place where it was initially applied - on the parting line flanges.  Mono-Coat® 1459 has the benefit of being thermoviscosimetrically stable - meaning that it will stay in place through the heat/cool cycling of rotomolding. Applied to mold flanges, it will not migrate on to the main mold surfaces.

Here is a picture taken at the lab molding machine in the Chem-Trend facility.

It was photographed directly after a molding which was produced with a flange deliberately resin-contaminated.  The flash just peeled off using a very light pull with the thumb and forefinger.  No scrapers were needed. Once the edge of the flash had been picked up, it was just a case of peeling it back for removal.

For more information on this product, please contact the charming George Barton - email: GBarton@chemtrend.com

We've been busy.

Greg has found quite an enjoyable line of work... taking those napkin sketches that we're all accustomed to seeing and transforming them into CAD 3-D models and prints. Since our overhead is low, he is able to perform his transformations at prices in a typical Roto-budget. e-mail Greg at gstout@blure-reed.com

Julie, well I just keep on marketing. It's quite exciting.

Both Greg and I are acting as reps for Chroma and calling on our old Roto-friends in Ohio. We're looking forward to setting up some NEW liquid color trials.

We have been approached by a company to source all of their molds, which is an interesting opportunity. 

So if you're in the market for color, design, or just a chit chat - we're here 330-688-1324 or e-mail: info@blue-reed.com.

 Chroma's Liquid Color...

From what we've seen so far, it eliminates dust in your plant from dry color blending.  Since the pigment in the liquid is milled much finer than typical dry color, the color is very, very concentrated. There are two benefits to this, you use much less color which results in much better physical properties in your finished product. In a presentation by Stu Lipsteuer at the SPE RETEC in Cleveland, Stu introduced liquid color as the mid-point between compounded and dry color resin... improved physicals without the compounded cost.
 

To recover from the event's of Rotoplas'02, I strongly recommend you hop on a plane and take a week or two touring Australia. 

At the end of the tour, stop by Melbourne Oct. 19-22 for the Association of Rotational Molders Australasia Trade Fair and Conference. 

For molders outside Asia/Australia, this may be an opportunity to set-up joint ventures, licensees, and develop export markets. Or, it could be just a really fun business trip.

I have an electronic copy of their program and would be more than happy to forward you a copy. jstout@blue-reed.com

Greetings from Sunny Ohio - Julie & Greg.