A small scale injection moulding machine with a maximum shot volume of 5 ml is developed by DSM Xplore. It fits easily on your laboratory bench or in a fume cupboard! This remarkable machine is best used in combination with one of our successful twin screw micro-compounders. If there is no need to mix materials in the micro-compounder the micro injection moulding machine can be used as stand-alone. Now you can test and evaluate new and/or expensive materials and formulations in very small amounts.

Our range of micro processing machines offer solutions to all these issues. The core of this laboratory injection moulding machine consists of a temperature controlled mould housing for a conical shaped mould in combination with a heated removable injection nozzle unit. The divisible conical shaped moulds are fitted into the housing in such a way that opening during injection is prevented. As a result flashing of material belongs to the past. Compounded material is injected into the temperature controlled mould, using a plunger powered by compressed air. Holding pressure and time are controllable to avoid shrinkage of the moulded test sample. The mould is then removed from the machine and opened by hand. The injection unit is easily removable and can thus quickly be filled by either compounded material directly from our micro-compounder or manually with powder or granules. Depending on the mould capacity, several injection cycles can be performed with one batch-volume of one of the DSM Xplore micro-compounders. Alternatively separate cavities can be fit into one mould, hence one injection cycle gives different test-samples.