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5 to 7 seconds cycle time for a 12" vinyl record (from a single stamper set anyway) does not sound realistic to me.

So I think either you have revolutionized the business or don't know what you are talking about – sorry.

maybe removing the disk at a higher temperature and finishing cooling it outside the press This would require the pressing matrices a.k.a. stampers to move with the record while keeping some pressure, right? Otherwise the grooves in the warm compound would not keep their shape, affecting the qualit...

We are installing an industrial heat pump to provide the cooling and raising the waste heat temperature to 80 °C required in the district heating network here. We sell the heat to the city. I have been thinking about replacing steam generator with the industrial heat pump so we could have same unit ...

Interesting idea. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work, although I’m not an expert regarding the fluids. Do realize that this is an industry where zero development has occured during the last 40 years or so, the final one being DMM. Everything regarding pressing is 1970s technology tops, if n...

RPA P-50

https://youtu.be/8qTd72niups https://youtu.be/djVxZDdfSqs

Not the most affordable solution but there you have it.

I think Litetone and steamless were designed exactly for your scenario. I would visit a pressing plant using those first if I were you.

Yes, around 100 kW for steamless heating in addition to the usual extruder, trimmer and hydraulics power requirements. I did consider an electric steam generator but the power requirements to serve two automatic presses requires a very fat cable to the building which is not available everywhere. I’m...