Hybrid hot runner system

拟议的设备是一个高度定制的混合热流道系统，将安装在我们的工业规模注塑机上，以生产新型微孔泡沫。它将成为几个研究项目的关键组成部分，例如(i) NSERC战略网络拨款（SNG）的创新塑料材料和制造工艺网络（NIPMMP）， （ii）由加拿大创新基金会前沿基金（CFI-LEF）资助的微孔塑料工业应用中心（CIAMP），以及（iii）蜂窝和微孔塑料联盟（CCMCP）及其20多个工业赞助商。微孔塑料是由非常精细的气泡（小于10微米，细胞数密度大于1e +9细胞/立方厘米）组成的高级聚合物泡沫。与非发泡塑料相比，微孔塑料通常表现出显著优越的机械性能，包括冲击强度、韧性和疲劳特性。它们保持了标准塑料的功能和/或结构特性。它们还提供卓越的隔热、隔音、热稳定性、光学性能和表面质量。研究项目的成功完成将为加拿大的经济和环境做出重大贡献。除了其优越的性能所提供的显著优势，微孔塑料技术，其环保发泡剂，可以减少材料消耗和产品重量。这将使我们的加拿大制造基地在国际市场上具有巨大的竞争优势，这将带来可持续的就业机会，减少汽车燃料消耗，并取代危险的发泡剂。

The proposed equipment is a highly customized hybrid hot runner system that will be mounted on our industry-scale injection molding machine to produce novel microcellular foams. It will be a key component in several research programs, such as (i) the Network for Innovative Plastic Materials and Manufacturing Processes (NIPMMP) of the NSERC Strategic Network Grant (SNG), (ii) the Centre for Industrial Applications of Microcellular Plastics (CIAMP) that was funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Leading Edge Fund (CFI-LEF), and (iii) the Consortium for Cellular and Micro-Cellular Plastics (CCMCP) with its 20+ industrial sponsors. Microcellular plastics are advanced polymer foams consisting of very fine bubbles (smaller than 10 microns and with a cell number density larger than 1 E+9 cells/cc). Compared with their unfoamed counterparts, microcellular plastics typically exhibit substantially superior mechanical properties that include impact strength, toughness, and fatigue features. And they maintain the desired functionality and/or structural properties that characterize standard plastics. They also offer exceptional heat insulation, sound dampening, thermal stability, optical properties, and surface quality. Successful completion of the research programs will result in significant economic and environmental contributions to Canada. In addition to the noted advantages provided by its superior properties, microcellular plastics technology, with its environmentally-friendly blowing agents, can reduce material consumption and product weight. This will give our Canadian manufacturing base a tremendous competitive advantage in the international marketplace, which will lead to sustainable job creation, the reduction of automobile fuel consumption, and the replacement of hazardous blowing agents.