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Custom Injection Mold Maker

History of HYX MOLD Company
Founded in 1999, HYX MOLD Plastics, Inc. is a custom injection mold maker that produces quality plastics products for home and industry. Our Mission is to offer the highest level quality and service in our market. We accomplish this through sound strategic planning, competitive pricing, effective communication with suppliers, employees, and customers, and a total commitment to the shipment of first quality goods, on time.

Facility

67,000-square feet, brick building, 18′ ceilings, located on a 7 acre industrial site
Five raised docks, two ground level docks
Two miles west of Interstate 40 on a major thoroughfare
Easily accessible and centrally located in the Piedmont Triad area of NorthCarolina. Fifteen minutes from Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI.)

In 2008, HYX MOLD acquired the assets of ST Mold and Design which had been building tools for Fortune 500 companies for more than 20 years.  Fred Davis, the former owner, joined HYX MOLD at that time to bring expertise in mold design and maintenance for customers of HYX MOLD Plastics.

Custom Injection Mold Maker
Custom Injection Mold Maker

Currently, HYX MOLD repairs and maintains 400+ tools for more than 50 customers.  Our equipment includes:

(1) 6 x 18 SUPER PRECISION surface grinder

(1) 6 x 12 surface grinder

(1) CNC  vertical milling machine

(1) Bridgeport milling machine with Rotary-head attachment

(2) EDM machines with DRO and program-able depth control

(1) Hardinge  precision tool-room lathe

(1) Miller micro-welder

(1) horizontal saw

(1) Rockwell tester

Gages and support equipment.

Quality Assurance
HYX MOLD’s Quality Assurance Department and Lab is dedicated to the manufacture and shipment of first quality goods only. This is accomplished through the application of policies and procedures as outlined in our comprehensive Quality Manual.

Founder & CEO

Steve has served the plastics industry for over 35 years. Prior to starting HYX MOLD Plastics, he worked at Rubbermaid for 12 years where he directed Engineering, Computer Systems Development, and Purchasing.  He left Rubbermaid in 1987 to start HYX MOLD Plastics.  Steve has a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA in Finance, both from Virginia Tech.

Out international team

Kirk Sparks

President

Kirk joined HYX MOLD Plastics in 2001 and became a full partner in 2002. Kirk has over 30 years experience in marketing products for the industrial marketplace. He spent nine years in management with General Electric working in several U.S. locations, as well as countries in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East. Kirk has helped manage three businesses through turnaround situations. He is a graduate of N.C. State with degrees in Business and Economics.

Todd Poteat

VP Manufacturing

Todd Poteat joined HYX MOLD Plastics in February 2012.  Todd has been involved in the plastics industry for 24 plus years.  Prior to joining HYX MOLD Plastics, he was Site Leader of an injection molding facility for a large consumer product manufacturer. Todd has proven management and technical expertise focused on continuous improvement and problem solving.  He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from NC State and an MBA from Western Carolina University.

Joe Vest

VP of Engineering and Logistics

Joe has been at HYX MOLD since 1998. He came to us from TYCO where he was Plant Manager for their A&E Products operation in Forest City, NC. Joe has excellent leadership and management skills, having served in the Army as an artillery officer. A graduate of West Point in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Joe’s leadership, innovation and technical skills are valuable assets at HYX MOLD Plastics.

Kate Bryant

Manager of Quality and Training

Kate joined HYX MOLD in June 2012, with over 34 years of plastic molding manufacturing experience. For the last seven years, she was the VP of Quality for Avgol Nonwovens.  Trained as a Master Auditor by Procter and Gamble, Kate has excellent auditing, and quality management skills. Previously, Kate worked at Microfibres as a Product Development manager focused on innovative ideas for fabric applications in furniture.  In 25 years at Burlington Industries, Kate served in a variety of roles including Senior Technical Manager, Asset manager, and Manager for all laboratories in the Klopman Division.  At HYX MOLD, Kate’s focus is on leadership, quality, auditing, continuous improvement and problem-solving.  Kate is a graduate of James Madison University with a dual major in Chemistry and Physics, and a minor in mathematics.

Jeff Larrimore

Controller

Jeff Larrimore joined the team at HYX MOLD Plastics in July 2014. Jeff has 36 years of manufacturing accounting experience working for both private and public companies. He has assisted family owned companies that have doubled and tripled in size during his tenure. His expertise includes setting up benefit and 401K plans as well as upgrading ERP systems to ensure efficient and profitable processes. He holds a BS in Accounting from the Kenan Flagler School of Business at UNC Chapel Hill.

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CAD-CAM Progrom

Tutorial CD-ROM Introduces Merits of CAD/CAM Program

SINCERE TECH plastic mold Company. is offering a free tutorial CD-ROM for its ST CAD/CAM software. The CD, first in a new “Getting Started” video series, is designed to take a user step by step through the construction of a single product. This first CD covers fundamentals such as program navigation, initial hybrid 3D models, automated drawing, layout, and dimensioning as well as “power user” hints.


SINCERE TECH MOLD Corp. is making its CAD/CAM software easier to learn through a series of “Quick Start” tutorials available on-line and on CD-ROM. The tutorials feature a presentation by a ST expert who guides the new user through the design of a single product. Each video segment includes a step-by-step “live action” sequence of menu picks and on-screen results, followed by a single-screen summary of the steps, as shown here.

long the way, users learn about the time-saving benefits of seamless hybrid mixing of solids and surfaces to build components quickly. A variety of surfacing operations create an ergonomic, aesthetically pleasing TV remote control complete with Class A surfaces. Other video segments guide a user through shelling and mold tools, including the automatic calculation of parting lines and separation into plastic mold cavities, as well as easy updating of components through the ST history and rules manager.

Mecof Well Situated to Serve International Markets

cnm tech. is a long-established company that started as a manufacturer of radial drilling machines in 1947. In the succeeding decades, the company developed a leading role in the manufacture of high-speed and high-accuracy milling and boring machines. this service is normally for plastic mold company

Plastic Molds & dies
Plastic Molds & Dies

Now, the Mecof Group has a personnel roster of approximately 500 spread throughout Europe and the United States. Sales and services offices are located in Germany, France, Russia, and the United States. The headquarters operation, CNM is responsible for the design, manufacture, assembly, sales and service. Salvadeo Srl handles the assembly of the Unica line and retrofitting activity while Spaziosystem Srl is the software house. There are as well two general engineering workshop organizations, Meccanica UNO Srl and Mecof Hungary Kft.

A newly developed production range draws on the power of HSC. The high accuracy of the Mecof machines offer a decrease in machining time from 40% to 70% for plastic molds and dies, and reduced time for finishing.

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Plastic Injection Molding

Plastic injection molding

Plastic injection molding is the process of injecting melted plastic resin, then forcing it under pressure into a plastic mold, where it cools and hardens.  The plastic mold is then opened, and the part is removed or “ejected”, usually automatically by “ejector pins”, long thin metal rods inside the mould that push through the cavity forcing the plastic part out of the mold cavity automatically as the molding machine opens the mold.

The plastic mold must have a very heavy wall thickness to keep the mold cavity from bulging since the plastic resin, is injected with as much as 20,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. And for the same reason molding machines must be able to clamp the mold shut with tremendous force.

On the top of the molding machine there is usually a hopper which is filled with the plastic resin to be molded, usually in the form of small pellets about 1/3 the size of a grain of rice.  The hopper feeds the pellets into the “barrel” of the machine.

The barrel has a long screw or auger inside, that rotates, forcing the pellets toward the front of the barrel.  The process of auguring the pellets produces a lot of heat, that melts the pellets. Additional heat is supplied to the barrel through the use of heating bands, electric resistance heating elements that wrap around the barrel.

At the end of the barrel there is a nozzle from which the melted plastic resin is ejected into the mold. The nozzle also has electric resistance heating bands wrapped around it.  The temperature of the nozzle is very important, and the temperature is monitored and controlled at the operator control panel.

If the nozzle temperature is not hot enough the plastic can “freeze off”, forming a solid plug that has to be removed before plastic can be injected into the mold.  If the nozzle is too hot, it can burn the resin destroying the plastic before it makes it into the mold.

Most injection molding machines can be run in either manual mode, or automatic mode.  In the manual mode, an operator slides open a door providing access to the mold itself. The operator reaches in and pulls the part out of the mold, then closes the door, and the mold closes, is filled with plastic, cools of for a few moments, and then opens up again. At that point the operator opens the door again, and the whole process repeats.

In automatic operation there is no operator.  The machine just hums along by itself, automatically ejecting the part or parts when the mold opens, and then re closing the mold, injecting the plastic etc.

Plastic injection molds can become quite complex. They usually require water lines to be built into the mold to cool of the melted plastic resin and harden the part, and they have ejector pins that push into the mold cavity as the mold opens, to eject the part out of the cavity.  Often the molded part requires moving metal pieces called “slides” that must pull metal cores out of areas of the part where there is no plastic such as the inside of pipe fittings etc.

There are many different brands and types of plastic injection molding machines that vary in the way they clamp the mold shut and other differences as well. What I’ve talked about is very very basic.

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Plastic Injection Mold Manufacturer

Plastic Injection Mold Manufacturer

1, Core and cavity have three-dimensional surface.

Plastic products external and internal shapes are depend on core and cavity and it is very difficult to process this complex three-dimensional surface, especially the process of blind hole. If we use traditional process, it not only requires high technical level of work，but also need long period of processing .

2,High accuracy and surface quality requirement, long service time.

Presently, the plastic products size accuracy requirement is about IT6-7, surface roughness is Ra0.2-0.1μm, while injection mould fitting size accuracy requirement should be achieve to IT5-6 and surface roughness lower than Ra0.1μm. Plastic injection molds long-life for is essential improving efficiency and reducing costs

plastic injection molds

plastic injection molds

If you want to improve efficiency and reduce cost, I think you need a long life injection mould. Currently, the general useful time of injection mould is more than 100 million.Precision injection molds need a big stiffness mould frame, heavy template, and many support column or cone positioning device in order to prevent the deformation of the mold. The ejection equipment will affect the products’ deform and size accuracy, so we should choose the best ejection point, then guarantee the even demould.

For the structural design, most of high accuracy injection moulds choose mosaics structure; it will improve the processing accuracy and the interchange ability of mould part.

3, Long process, tight manufacture time.

A complete product always consists of injection product and part components supporting. Because of high requirement for products shape or size accuracy and because there are many characteristics of resin material, so after finishing the mould’s manufacture, we should test and modify the mould repeatedly, reducing developing and delivery time.

4, Remote design and off-site manufacture

Mould manufacture is not the finally destination, mould manufacture’s destination is appeal to customer’s requirement. Ordinarily, customer brings forward finally design, according to the customer’s requirement, mould manufacturer start to produce.

5, Specialize division, dynamic combination

Generally, mould production is always single, but there are many standard elements, such as mould frame and ejection pin. These can’t be finished in one manufacturing process.

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