Husky offers global Altanium production

Husky Injection Molding Systems (Bolton, Ont.) has integrated production of the Altanium line of hot-runner controllers it acquired last summer, with its manufacturing of the hot-runner systems themselves. The Altanium plants in Moore Park, Cal., and in Ireland, have closed, and Altanium manufacturing is now done at Milton, Vt., Luxembourg, and Shenzhen, China.

“We are the only hot-runner manufacturer that also makes its controls on three continents,” says Martin Baumann, marketing and business development manager for hot-runners.

The company is also adding the capability for people to pull up original hot-runner technical drawings from the controls, as opposed to simplified schematics or a generalized graphic of the system. This can be a useful tool in troubleshooting.

Altanium uses ART (Active Reasoning Technology) to control heating elements within a hot-runner system in order to maintain optimal temperatures, eliminating the scrap produced by a traditional runner system. It comes in several configurations, from one to 255 zones of control, with three operator interfaces and four mainframe configurations to choose from.

Husky has also introduced a smaller hot-runner controller that mounts directly onto the moulding machine. It demonstrated this at K -2007 in Germany last fall.

“This means you don’t need a roll-around unit on casters,” Baumann says.

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