The following is an edited excerpt from The Business of Injection Molding, by Clare Goldsberry. The book is the first title in the IMM Book Club Injection Molding Management Series, published by IMM.

With the miniaturization of many products, manufacturers are streamlining devices to pack more features into smaller packages. For instance, the pitch (spacing) between contacts in electrical ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany—Arburg GmbH and Co. KG is introducing a new multi-component injection molding machine series with larger mold dimensions and ejector strokes and greater distances between the ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

Injection molding is the widely preferred method for shaping plastic medical components, but now a new type of machine promises to slash energy and materials costs. Ultrasion's Sonorous 1G uses ...

Operators already using the technology could say Wittmann Battenfeld Inc. is taking charge when it comes to Industry 4.0, but at NPE2018 visitors will get a chance to see the machinery maker's ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...