The Injection tooling plays a very important role in Aluminum Die Casting. The idea is to get consistency in the shot speed in repeated cycles as desired in the process parameters. All the elements of injection system are very important. It is an interaction between shot sleeve and Plunger tip. It is understood that the injection tooling is the least focused area by Indian die casting industry and mostly cast Iron plunger tip with an average life of one shift or 1000 numbers is in practice. The Time has come for Indian Die Casters to realize that they can save a lot of money by adopting the new technologies in Injection Tooling, where they can get 10-20 times better life of a plunger tip than conventional Cast Iron tip.

Advantages

• Machine Down time saving: As the life of this plunger tip is 10-20 times better than conventional Cl tip. It gives direct 897 minutes saving of plunger changing time in one month considering that only 3 tips will be changed in place of 30. The changeover time for plunger tip is 30 minutes.
• Cost Saving: Huge direct cost saving tooling cost per shot is much lesser.
• Quality improvement: Reduced back flash, reduced plunger seizure and consistence shot velocity.
• Reduced Plunger tip inventory.
• Reduced plunger thread slip.
• Improvement in production: As less cold shots (Oil Shots) are required after plunger change.
• Less Scrap.