Page 57 - Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories no. 2/2017

Throughout the process the
THOROUGH DESIGN
AND EVALUATION
Merkad engineering is a perfect
partner for their client’s most chal- committed to create and deliver
lenging projects. The company’s
experienced design team assists
customers with innovative sug-
gestions in product and mould
equipment design. Starting with
engineering team works on every
facet of design, determining
cooling profiles of plungers and
moulds, identifying exhaust holes
in fixed blow moulds, calculat-
ing parison design for press and
blow moulds, obtaining homoge-
neity, glass thickness and ovality
on spinning moulds and reverse
engineering projects by laser
scanning on any surface. After
the mould design details have
been finalized by Merkad, the
company provides 2D and 3D
files to the client for approval.
Merkad’s customers have the
advantage of working with high
a design article and ending with a accuracy mould equipment that
complete set of mould construc- has a longer lifespan than its
tion schematics, the company is competitors and without the need
of extra processing during glass
designs efficiently to achieve suc- production.
cessful glass production. Probable
problems, which may occur during PRODUCTS
production, are simulated using Merkad provides the high-
advanced software programs. est quality mould equipment