Husky Injection Molding Systems continues to make significant investments to support the strong growth of its hot runners and controllers customers. The company established its hot runners and controllers business as a strategic priority early in 2013 and is focused on developing innovative products and services that solve customers’ key injection moulding challenges in areas such as gate quality, balance, ease of use and maintainability.

Recent investments in the business will enable Husky to further reduce lead times, increase global capacity, and enhance its global customer support capabilities. Specific investments in 2014 include expanding Husky’s facility in Pudong, China, with new manufacturing equipment and new team members, and commencing hot runner manufacturing at its Chennai, India, facility. This will allow the company to achieve industry-leading lead times in Asia, and benefit customers around the world by streamlining the workload at its other manufacturing facilities in Milton, Vermont, and Dudelange, Luxembourg.

In the next 12 months, investments in the business will include increasing capacity to manufacture hot half plates, and introducing new, more efficient manufacturing technology for manifolds at its Luxembourg facility. To better support customers with fast delivery needs or special technical requirements, Husky is also expanding its custom components manufacturing capacity with state of the art equipment and skilled machinists. A new generation of engineering automation is also being put into place that will greatly improve collaborative engineering with customers. Hand in hand with capital investments, Husky has added more people to its sales support and customer service teams to give customers better support on mould and part design consulting, resin trials, start-up assistance and field troubleshooting.

To support customers with hot runners and controllers for a wider variety of applications, the company has launched a number of products recently. Such products include a Pronto and Ultra Sidegate expansion, and the launch of innovative new products like the Altanium Matrix2 and Altanium Delta3 controllers, and the Unify pre-assembled manifold system.

“Husky’s goal is to be the industry’s first choice for melt delivery systems, and our new Unify manifold system and Alatanium hot runner controllers continue to prove that we are leaders in the industry by continuously driving innovation”, said Gerardo Chiaia, Husky’s president of hot runners. “Customers continue to benefit from our technology with improved gate quality, balance, ease of use and maintainability”.