Multicolor Spotting Press for Auto Light Molds | Die Spotting Equipment

Creating automotive lighting components often requires complex molds capable of producing parts with multiple colors, materials, or components in a single injection molding process. These molds, including bi-color and tri-color designs for lenses, reflectors, and housings, demand exceptional precision during their manufacturing and testing phases to ensure perfect shut-off lines, material transitions, and cosmetic quality. Our Multicolor Spotting Press is specifically engineered to address these challenges, particularly the complexities introduced by multi-component mold designs and the need for sequential processing or access to different mold sections. Its core innovation lies in the rotating disc type design.

Key Features and Benefits

• Rotating Disc (Turntable) System: The integrated, robust turntable serves as the main working surface. It allows mold halves, inserts, or different components of a multi-cavity mold to be precisely rotated and indexed to various working positions or stations without requiring heavy lifting or complex external manipulation. This systematic movement is essential for the sequential fitting, alignment, and spotting of multi-component or multi-material molds.
• Optimized for Bi-Color & Tri-Color Molds: By facilitating easy and accurate station switching and positioning via the turntable, the press significantly streamlines the complex process of aligning and spotting molds designed for producing parts with multiple colors or materials injected sequentially. It ensures that all interlocks, shut-offs, and core/cavity fits are checked with high precision across different mold configurations required for multi-shot operations.
• Handles Complex Mold Structures: This press is specifically built with the structural stability and control required to handle the weight and intricate designs typical of automotive light molds. These molds often involve multiple slides, lifters, complex cooling channels, and delicate optical surface requirements.
• Precise Mold Fitting and Alignment: The fundamental function is providing high-tonnage clamping force under controlled hydraulic conditions to accurately check the contact surfaces between mold halves and components. This crucial process, known as spotting, is critical for identifying high spots, verifying shut-off lines between different mold sections (essential for preventing flashing or material bleed in multi-color shots), and ensuring perfect alignment, which is vital for part accuracy and mold longevity.
• Enhances Manufacturing Efficiency: The integrated rotating disc design improves workflow efficiency by allowing multiple stages of the mold spotting and fitting process, or work on different mold components, to be conducted within the same machine setup. This reduces the need for mold disassembly, reassembly, and external handling, saving time and minimizing risks of damage.

This equipment is a vital tool for mold makers specializing in the demanding field of automotive lighting, enabling them to produce high-quality, complex multi-component molds reliably, precisely, and efficiently. It is designed to meet the stringent requirements for precision and productivity in manufacturing intricate mold designs for modern vehicle lighting systems.