In a new video on out Tempco Youtube channel, we talk a further more about a very interesting application for a vulcanization machine that was designed and manufactured by HUREX Suisse in Locarno in collaboration with Tempco and with Giovanni Caschetto, an engineer with a wide experience in the latex sector.

This is in fact an application for latex vulcanization. For the production of mattresses, pillows or any kind of object made in latex, molds are employed to give the desired shape to the product, and then these molds are heated inside autoclaves using steam.

Liquid latex, or the blend containing liquid latex, gets injected inside the molds, and the mold gets heated in order to achieve the expansion of the blend and to obtain the finished object.
Usually, the process was carried inside autoclaves injecting steam, in order to heat the mold. The interesting solution that we have deployed employes instead a warm fluid circulating within the mold, directly heating the product. In a similar way to what happens in the molding of plastic materials.

This solution is indeed very much interesting because it allows to achieve an energy saving of about 50% in terms of thermal power required to heat the mold and accomplish the vulcanization process of the final latex product.

 

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