ELEKTRON Series
500 to 3500 kN

All-Electric Injection Molding for Everyone

The ELEKTRON Series is the product of Milacron's years of innovation in all-electric injection molding technology. The ELEKTRON is designed for a full range of standard applications, and offers outstanding value to manufacturers.

Injection Unit

All-electrics set the standard for movement repeatability. Exact movements are assured by the machines' drive components and robust mechanics. This ensures consistent part quality for the long term. The stroke precision of servo-driven axes is significantly greater than even the best hydraulic systems can provide. All this makes the ELEKTRON ideal for the reliable production of high-precision parts:

• Absolute stroke measurement of all machine axes with precision movements
• Sensors for direct, precise, and repeatable monitoring of the injection and holding pressure
• Fast, repeatable injection movements with parallel independent plasticizing
• Linear guide for injection unit
• Perfect integration of controls and drive components
• All machine axes utilize servomotors, belt drives, and ball screw drives
• Injection unit carriage movement and nozzle-holding force via clean, easily maintained system
• Automatic central lubrication

Clamping Unit

As with accumulator-driven hydraulic machines, ELEKTRON offers parallel movements as a standard feature. The result is excellent machine dynamics:

• All axes can operate in parallel - standard on all machines
• FEM-optimized construction of all moving and stressed parts
• Power- and acceleration-optimized 5-point toggle system - large mold opening strokes in a compact design
• Precise positioning of ejector via electromechanical drive system and ball screw drives
• Platen guides allow for high-speed operation with perfect platen parallelism, even for heavier molds

Tie-bar spacing with a stiff platen and highly sensitive mold safety ensure long-term part-quality and mold life. The mold installation area is easily accessed, allowing for quick mold changes.

ENDURA Controls

The ELEKTRON features ergonomic ENDURA controls by B&R and a 10.4 inch color display. Along with standard setup and operation functions, 22 parameters of the last 150 cycles can be monitored and displayed. ENDURA can store up to 80 mold setups. For optimized process setup and monitoring, injection speed and pressure can be displayed with low, high, and average values, as well as standard deviation via SPC (Statistic Process Control). Three programmable digital inputs and outputs are available for peripheral equipment. Password-protected access levels for 45 different users ensure security.

• High performance controls from B&R
• INTEL processor
• 10.4 inch TFT color display
• Alpha-numeric keypad for note and information entry
• USB-interface for printer or USB storage of mold data, screenshot, and process data
• Ethernet-interface for local area network connection
• Time input with 0.01 second precision
• Set point and actual values represented as absolute values
• Summary of last 1,000 alarms with date and time stamps
• Plausibility testing for input values
• Freely configurable page for up to 30 user-selected parameters
• Menu for configurable input and output (3+3)
• Multi-language support
• Accessible controls menu: no menu is more than two keystrokes away
• Stepped acceleration control of mold opening and closing movement