• PHI

Manual Compression Presses

Highly versatile, PHI manual compression presses are ideal for short run plastic and rubber moulding, batch testing, materials development and evaluation, briquetting. adhesive bonding, printed circuit board laminating and numerous other laboratory and light production applications. Heavy duty frame columns are wide, solid steel plates structurally joined to the solid steel bolsters. Bolsters are ground and the frame is carefully aligned to insure accurate platen parallelism. The PHI patented, manual high/low pressure pump automatically converts from low pressur/high volume to high pressure/low volume for ease of operation and accurate control throughout the range from 0 lbs to full press capacity. Two-stage PHI decompression and dump valve enables the operator to adjust pressure to laboratory accuracy. Options available are: Low pressure readout gauges; Solid state temperature controllers and indicators; Solid state, adjustable timers; Intermediate platen for increased productivity; Steam heated steel platens; etc.