Are hydraulic machines on their way out for disc moulding?

From: British Plastics & Rubber | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: Smith, Alan | Copyright information

Alan Smith reports from the Replitech optical disc fair in Geneva

THE fully hydraulic injection moulding machine appears to be on its way to being completely superseded in the Optical Disc sector, although, like VHS tape versus DVD, it will probably not fade away altogether for some years yet.

Four of the six machines producing DVD discs on their makers' stands at Replitech were electric models -- Emould, Ferromatik Milacron, newtoms and Sumitomo. Krauss Maffe...

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