Mold Surface Science & Release Agent Technology

PRIVATE/CHANNEL course (ChemTrend co-delivery): mold fouling and buildup science, release-agent chemistry and selection, mold-surface engineering, and the part-design interaction — the mold's surface as a system.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 1-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Intermediate
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

The mold surface is a system: steel treatment, coating, release agent, and the polymer against it — and fouling is a four-body chemistry problem, not a housekeeping issue. This private/channel seminar (delivered with ChemTrend) teaches mold surface science end-to-end: why buildup forms (deposition chemistry, thermal history, additive migration), release-agent families and their selection logic, mold-surface engineering (texturing, coatings, cleanliness), and the part-design interaction — where draft, depth, and surface area decide whether release works at all.

The format is the co-delivery model validated against the machinery-channel play: ETS teaches the part-design and surface-science frame, ChemTrend teaches release chemistry and product selection — delivered to ChemTrend's processor customers as a value-add that deepens their account relationships. The PFAS-free release-agent transition supplies the market hook: regulations are forcing reformulation across the industry, and processors need the science, not a sales deck.

Open-enrollment courses compete for seats; this one is deliberately private: a channel SKU that makes ChemTrend's customers better engineers while anchoring ETS's relationship with the machinery channel.

Ideal Learner

  • Molding process engineers and supervisors (delivered via ChemTrend channel)
  • Tooling engineers fighting fouling and release issues
  • Quality engineers chasing appearance defects
  • ChemTrend processor customers: molders across automotive, medical, packaging

Learning Objectives

  • Explain fouling mechanisms: deposition chemistry, additive migration, thermal history
  • Select release agents per material, mold surface, and paintability requirement
  • Apply mold-surface engineering: texturing, coatings, cleanliness protocols
  • Identify part-design levers that make release reliable
  • Navigate the PFAS-free transition with a defensible selection process

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Steel, treatment, coating, agent, polymer: five players
  • Fouling mechanisms: deposition chemistry and thermal history
  • Additive migration: slip, stabilizers, colorants as fouling agents
  • Release-agent families and their selection logic
  • Application: dose, frequency, buildup feedback loops
  • Paintability and secondary-operation compatibility
  • The PFAS-free transition: what changes, what's honest about it
  • Texturing and its release consequences
  • Coatings: what they do and when they pay
  • Cleanliness protocols that actually prevent buildup
  • Draft and depth as release variables
  • Surface-area and rib/boss geometry effects
  • Gate location and its surface consequences
  • Workshop: diagnose a fouling/appearance case end-to-end

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