Acrolab has a diverse and comprehensive database consisting of thousands of engineered application solutions that have aided our customers in resolving thermal management processing challenges, increasing their production rates and the bottom line. We work with your team to supply thermal management expertise, along with all the services and components to provide a complete application solution.
For over 70 years, Acrolab has been an industry leader in providing customized thermal management solutions that deal with real-production challenges and concerns surrounding issues affecting production efficiency and effectiveness for a variety of manufacturing processes, such as;
We are focused on industrial processors helping to reduce cycle times & scrap rates while increasing quality & energy efficiency
Acrolab’s applications engineering team can assist you in designing simplified, high effective systems. Our applications specialists will recommend optimum sizing and placement of system components and will provide all the requisite details pertaining to sizes and installation. All engineering drawings, electrical schematics, heating elements, Isobar® Heat Pipes, thermocouples, wiring, terminal boxes, electrical connectors, control cables, and a certified installer are provided.
An experienced, one-stop shop that wants to work with clients to effectively resolve thermal challenges related to many industrial and manufacturing processes worldwide.
Ability to provide a complete and comprehensive solution including all necessary resources and equipment.
Ability to work with any industry on an individual basis including IP transfer using technology licensing opportunities which may be exclusive within defined territories and/or industry sectors.
We focus both internally with new product and process development and externally with client-sponsored research projects. Our trademark products Isobar®, Isoplaten®, and Isomandrel®, to name a few, continue to be refined to improve, enable and enhance current and future production methodologies throughout the world. These, along with other thermal management products, available through Acrolab, combined with our extensive Research and Development knowledge database and proven experience within the manufacturing sector, serve to provide our customers with workable and cost-effective solutions for their unique and proprietary processes.
Provided by our expert team of design and applications engineers, utilizing existing and new technology developments in the area of thermal management to devise new and innovative solutions to unique customer challenges in industrial processing. Acrolab maintains a substantial database of thermally related, technology-focused knowledge and tools and we apply this wealth of data to any and all thermal challenges that our customers bring to the table.
Providing a vast range of thermal electric and auxiliary products that enable customers to have confidence in knowing that we understand their business and are delivering the right product for their application – every time. We stock a wide-array of thermal management related standard products for industrial processors. Acrolab aims to be a “one stop”, reliable full-service supplier that enables our customers to have full confidence in knowing that Acrolab can provide all necessary quality products and, if desired, design and application assistance, as well as installation services.
Integrated technologies including Isobar®/Isoplaten® and Isomandrel® systems, including application review, development of new solutions including concept/design and build of prototype systems, full service offering including all processing component needs including heaters, sensors, controls and other products. Full package Thermal Solutions Provider for any industry processes requiring or improving thermal control
These include; Plastics, Rubber, Composites, Aerospace, Automotive, Agri-Business, Defense, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy, Pulp & Paper, Construction, Advanced Research and Development, and many more.
This requires a research-focused company. Acrolab receives regular requests from our clients to participate in challenging and unique applications. Over the past several years, Acrolab has played an integral role in leading edge material processing developments in composites, plastic injection, rubber injection, magnesium injection, QPF aluminum, advanced thermal products for commercial and industrial electronics, pultrusion and extrusion systems, as well as enhanced thermal solutions for electronics, waste heat recovery and mold heating and cooling.
Over the years, we have completed many Research & Development projects with industry leaders in consumer electronics, medical equipment, automotive applications, aerospace and oil & gas, to name a few. In many cases we have also developed key relationships with other industry partners and brought together a team of specialists focused on delivering a comprehensive solution for the customer.
with mutual non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements keep us from naming customers directly and we are committed to ensuring that our client’s solutions remain proprietary and protected.
For more than 40 years, Acrolab has delivered patented Isobar® technology to the plastics, rubber and composite processing industries to effectively overcome limitations imposed by traditional tool steels used by injection molders, resulting in substantial improvements in processing efficiency, reducing scrap and improving cycle times. Even with recent advances in higher thermal conductivity steel, molders still face challenges with deep draw tool designs and more advanced materials requiring narrower thermal processing windows.
Isobar’s high thermal conductivity allows them to be used to combat long cycle time, poor temperature distribution and mold durability. Additionally, moldmakers using conventional tool steels as well as higher conductivity steels can expect to achieve exceptional results with the use of Isobar Engineered Heat Transfer Systems. Contact Acrolab’s application specialists when dealing with thermal problems and to improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of the process.
Mold heat up can take substantially more time when working with deep draw molds since these molds may require the addition of heaters in the retainer plate. There should be, at minimum, one thermocouple to control each half of the mold. In larger molds, it becomes necessary to have more than one thermocouple in each half of the mold.
Acrolab is typically brought in early in the mold design phase providing thermal engineering support to the design team, as well as to deliver recommendations on heater placement, thermocouple placement, zone configuration and Isobar placement, resulting in greater control and a more uniform mold temperature. Thermocouple placement is critical to the overall success of the thermal design of the mold, Acrolab provides comprehensive support to its clients on all aspects of thermal design, including full heating system designs, electrical schematics, pre-wired mold boxes, cable and control panels.
Our clients range from niche suppliers to large multi-national Tier-1s and OEMs. Typically, Acrolab is contacted to resolve challenges with the manufacturers of complex geometric shapes and forms for composite parts as well as to consult on thermal management solutions for existing and new tooling platforms for composite parts.
