New Products and Updates from Progressive Components More Options for Holding Side Actions Progressive’s expanded line of SRT Series Slide Retainers gives designers more options for smooth, greaseless and reliable retention of side actions. Benefits include: • Compact design fits in tight spaces in the mold base, or may Color coded SRT’s enable be installed in the wear plates (an industry exclusive). designers to select exactly the • No more tapping of tiny #2-56 threads, SRT bolts range retention force needed. Not too little... Not too much! from #4-48 to #8-32 threads. • Introduced in 2006, proven in thousands of molds with millions of cycles. Dean Frasch of Fabrik Industries said: “Other brands just don’t hold up. They’re poorly constructed, have spring failures and detents would break. Progressive’s SRT’s perform so much better when it comes to selecting the components to match the required retention.” Click HERE for additional information or call 1-800-269-6653 / 1-847-487-1000 to order. Progressive Works EU, Readies for Euromold October 2014 See Progressive At... November 19-20, 2014 Montreal, Canada November 18-21, 2014 Mexico City, Mexico November 25-28, 2014 Frankfurt, Germany Time for a Change! November is near, and that means it’s time to begin the reorder process for date stamp plug and ring changeovers for your tools. Z-Series Locks, CVe Monitor and SRT Slide Retainers were among the innovations featured by Progressive during the recent Equiplast, Interplas and Fakuma trade fairs in Europe. Progressive exhibited with sister companies AST Technology, which featured System Moulding, a program designed to provide molders/OEMs with a customized, structured approach to injection molding, and Roehr Tool, which highlighted its Sub-10mm Dove Tail (DT) Collapsible Core, ideal for molding very small threaded parts, especially in cleanroom applications. Progressive is your one-stop source, offering the industry’s widest selection of styles and sizes, including matches for other brands. Plus, if there’s ever a question about what date marking products are needed, our Tech Team is ready to assist – or use our handy Custom Match Template. Next up is Euromold (Hall 8.0, Stand G22), in Frankfurt Germany, November 25-28. If you are planning to attend, please send us a quick email and we can be sure to connect. Mold Monitoring Integral to Mold Maintenance MoldMaking Technology featured the annual edition of its Mold Maintenance and Repair Supplement, featuring many informative technical articles regarding best practices for the caring for one’s fleet of tools, including one titled “Think Big”. Call 1-800-269-6653 or click HERE to order today! Authored by Tom Knight, system monitoring development engineer at Progressive’s sister company AST Technology, the article discusses how Big Data and real-time mold monitoring can optimize mold performance and profitability. Click HERE to access the article, and join Tom in some Big Thinking! Click HERE to learn how customers are benefitting from unmatched Z-Lock performance. Phone: 1-847-487-1000 / 1-800-269-6653 / Email: sales@procomps.com Entire contents Copyright ©2014 by Progressive Components International Corporation. All rights reserved.