Axxicon opts for moulds of added value

Visiting a manufacturer of optical discs, e.g. in Spain, it is easy to find with the company Axxicon moulds. Not in vain account with 70 percent of the market share in this country. But Axxicon has more things to tell in other fields. Since then, it is not a builder of molds that settle for little. "As moldistas, not we can look only to the mould".

The ST mold for DVDs, which has already sold 600, achieves cycles of less than 2.5 s in the case of less than 4 s in DVD-R and DVD-9.

Currently Axxicon, headquartered in the Netherlands, 350 employees and a turnover of EUR 70 million, part of the Group Micron Technology Group. It has four production plants, two of them in the Netherlands, one in France and one in the United Kingdom.

In all truth becomes topic Add value to the production chain and it regards itself as an engineering company capable of providing molds for high-performance solutions to companies that operate internationally.

The new SF cast has the disc of stamping in the fixed part of the mold, which simplifies the handling and integration into a system and extends the range of injectors which can be used.

Last year Axxicon built over 500 molds, some standard, other events tailored to the clients. Standard are, for example, the moulds for optical discs, a ground which is considered a world leader, both for CDs and DVDs and other similar. His first CD mold was developed in the 1980s, which explains that, if you buy three CDs in a trade, two of them are probably made in a mold of this company. However, given that the CDs and CD-R are already very 'touched' in the market, Axxicon has been also a position of leader in molds for DVD in all formats and its system for the future system of Blue Ray is already ahead of its customers.

What does it seem clear and this they did know their leaders before this magazine recently, is that they leave the business of simple molds for high-volume. "We believe - they say - sell a mold is increasingly difficult." "We have to sell information and knowledge".

In the data storage sector, also smart cards and the AIM system for test tubes designed to tests performed according to ISO are two fields to highlight. The latter is a mold with interchangeable easily and that you are now ready for application of two components, because they have detected that a standard there is for is technical injection. They are used to obtain data for the Campus database.

Moulds for smart cards of all kinds, reaches tolerances up to 0.02 mm, even in 16 cavity moulds

Moulds for smart cards of all kinds, reaches tolerances up to 0.02 mm, even in 16 cavity moulds. Moreover, they are providing to customers turnkey solutions including the mold, the robot, the fuel transfer and equipment for the recycling of descartes.

In what refers to the moulds to suit customers examples can be very numerous, but there are four in which their presence is perhaps most notorious: Pharmacy, medical devices, disposable products and communication technologies, such as cell phones, electronic agendas, etc.

Always being ahead of emerging technologies is not free. Axxicon has with a company, Future Technology Engineering (FTE), aimed at the design and engineering of new systems. Neither more nor less that eight people, including the person who first designed a mold for CDs, join all day towards new developments.

One of them is truly surprising if we consider that we are talking about a moldista: is the development of a new optical disc replication machine, marketed in conjunction with the Japanese Toyo Machinery & Metal. "It is a unique system - explains FTP responsible, Arie Brouwer - highlights, among others, a shock absorber system which isolates the mold of the fuel transfer and therefore avoids that the same would be affected by dilatations or contractions." "Precision is maximum, because it does not depend on the machine". It is a machine vertical and powered electrically.