Company Profile
The current Die-Sep, while vastly different from its seed version, still adheres to the first commitment made by Joe and Louis in 2000. And, it still uses the two basic concepts of the original design and patents, magnets to mount the mold and hydraulics to open, tip and close them.
The company now sells four Standard size machines and custom builds machines of all sizes, depending upon the sizes and types of molds of its customers. The largest Die-Sep in operation today, opens and closes molds weighing 70,000 pounds and is scale-able to 100,000 pounds. The largest tipper tips molds or mold halves of 50,000 pounds and, like the separator, is scale-able to 100,000 pounds.
Most Die-Sep machines are sold with accessories of a table top and core pull accessory that allows technicians to hydraulically activate cores while their molds are sitting in the bay of the Die-Sep. An adjustable/moving or floating floor allows non-supported molds, that is, molds with quick change plates or legs only near the mold bases, but not supported at the parting line to be opened using mechanical supports.
Die-Sep machines can be designed to handle stack molds. About 10% of the Die-Sep machines are sold with a sprue-bar offset on the movable platen.
The Mini Die-Sep, which was introduced at NPE2015, handles molds as small as six inches cubed and weighing up to 3,000 pounds.
The company branched out from selling strictly a mold separator and tipper when it introduced its portable Mold Water Leak Tester. The tester is capable of being used in either the tool room or at a production press where the mold can be tested under pressure. The Mold Water Leak Tester allows technicians to test up to 12 individual circuits time. A thirteenth circuit can be attached to a cam lock fitting to test through a mold’s water manifold.
