Plastics - Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Spark Industries LLC and have acquired product lines from Elmhurst, IL-based Fast Heat Inc. These include Fast Heat's ION and Pulse Hot Runner Temperature Controllers, MoldXChecker®, CableXChecker®, SmartMold™, Cables, Service and Repairs.Spark Industries has already launched an application engineering project to upgrade the Pulse Hot Runner Controller HMI to cover applications from 2-180 zones that benefit from I/O integration, VNC viewer control and the standard Fast Heat technologies such as Bake-Out, EvenSoak (zone managed start-up), Zone-Grouping/Mgt, Slaving, Recipe Storage, Constant Tuning PID Algorithm and Active Thermocouple Protection within an industrial grade and simple platform. This is expected to be available by the end of Q1 this year. An advanced display option with OPC/UA is expected Q2-Q3.