Axel’s Solvent-based Release Agents are a cost-effective solution to the problems that plague users of paste wax.
All manufacturers have the same goals: trim the cost of manufacturing, sell more products, and make more money. Unfortunately while mold release is an essential part of composite manufacturing, the cost and value of mold release products, unlike the costs of resin, reinforcements, is often poorly understood. The fact that many molders refer to all types of mold release simply as “wax”, underscores the fact that purchasing decisions for release products is often simply based on the cost/kilo, and so paste wax is often chosen.
A purchasing decision based solely on a cost/kilo approach, fails to consider many factors that can significantly impact production and actually increase production costs. To truly determine cost and value of mold release, the volume and frequency of application; the time required to prepare and maintain molds; and the effectiveness of release for the specific process, resin and part, should all be considered.
Although paste wax may appear to be more economical than a semi-permanent mold release, we must also consider how many coats of wax need to be applied before beginning to mold, and how frequently molds must be re-waxed. By comparison, a liquid semi-permanent mold release can be applied in a fraction of the time that it takes to apply wax, and a single preparation will yield many easy, perfect de-moldings.
Other equally important factors to consider are how well mold release is performing. Have your molds lost their gloss? Do they have residue from buildup of wax or resin? Do your parts release easily, or are your molds, or parts often damaged in de-molding? If you have any of these problems these add significant costs to your business and are hardly worth the “savings” you may think you are achieving in purchasing “wax”.
AXEL is a company that has manufactured high performance internal and external mold releases for more than 68 years. After great deliberation on the above issues, Axel Plastics Research Laboratories have come up with a series of solvent based release agents for all application processes.
AXEL currently offers the industry’s broadest range of products: long lasting XTE Nowater & solvent-based semi-permanents; easy-to-use MoldWiz® polymeric releases; and convenient PasteWiz® wax.
AXEL’s extensive line of external mold releases provides a wide variety of options to meet the demands of all composite processes including: open molding, vacuum bagging; resin transfer; compression molding; filament winding; cast polymers, SMC/BMC, and RIM.
