Friction Material Compaction Behaviour

Scope and process

Multi-cavity tooling is normal for volume, which makes cavity-to-cavity consistency the central process control problem. A single cavity running cool or under-filled produces parts that pass visual inspection and fail on the dynamometer.

Materials we work with

The blend is abrasive to tooling and often contains fibres that behave anisotropically — orientation induced during charge placement can carry through into the finished part’s wear behaviour.

Tooling support

Heated multi-cavity tooling with even zone control, built for an abrasive compound. Cavity wear is faster than in polymer moulding and is planned for rather than treated as a fault.

Choosing the right option

Specify from total projected area across all cavities for tonnage, section thickness for cure time, and cavity count for the required output rate — then confirm the platen can hold temperature evenly across that cavity spread.

Quality checks and inspection

Density and thickness are checked across the cavity set rather than on a single part, because the failure mode this catches is a single deviant cavity rather than a whole-batch problem.

Commissioning and handover

Establish the cure profile on the customer’s own formulation, and validate across every cavity position rather than the first-off part only.

Export packing and lead time

HEMSUN is a DGFT IEC registered exporter (Government of India). Machines ship knocked down where transport requires it, with erection drawings supplied.

Maintenance and spare parts

Heater and thermocouple integrity plus cavity wear. Because scrap from a single cool cavity is easy to misattribute to the formulation, zone logging pays for itself.

Specifications