An injection molded, threaded cap made from a 3D-printed metal mold insert, right, created on a Mantle P-200 machine. Within reach of you right now are probably five to 10 plastic products, or parts ...

Nylon is one of the most widely used engineering thermoplastics due to its excellent mechanical properties, such as high ...

Today, Built-Rite, located in Lancaster, MA, is the parent company of Reliance Engineering, a molder of thermoplastic and thermoset materials, and LSR Engineering, which performs LSR molding. Four ...

The Role of Innovation in Sustainable Injection Molding Innovation plays a key role in advancing sustainability in injection molding. Emerging technologies and practices are making it easier for ...

Technitool Inc. has begun using a Nissei portable injection unit to give it flexibility to revert to single-shot molding when a two-shot job is finished. Technitool of Berlin, N.J., early this year ...

If you’re interested in learning more about whether 3D printers can be used for injection molding. You might be interested in a series of tests carried out by the CNC Kitchen to explore the ...

When it comes to injection molding efficiency, conventional band heaters are subpar at best, according to Kubi Kara, co-founder of APSX LLC, the Cincinnati-based maker of the APSX-PIM desktop ...

Not long ago I wrote a column about choosing between industrial robots and collaborative robots (co-bots) for various manufacturing applications. While speaking with Ryan Guthrie, senior vice ...

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 ...

While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...