About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

Netstal, at Fakuma 2015 in Germany, showed what company officials said is a world first: Injection/compression molding on a stack mold. During the show, a Netstal Elion press was molding a margarine ...

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 ...

Recently [Stefan] of CNC Kitchen took a gander at using his gaggle of 3D printers to try injection molding (IM). Although the IM process generally requires metal molds and specialized machinery, 3D ...

2008 - PACE Award Winner Webasto AG What: Low Pressure Injection-Compression Process for Panoramic Polycarbonate Roof Module Judge's Citation: OEMs are increasingly eager to substitute polycarbonate ...

Optical components are important in many industrial applications like optical sensors or for lighting purposes. As a part of consumer electronics products, such as cameras or DVD players, they play an ...

While 3D printing has now become easily accessible and cheap, there are still several use cases where you need the advantages offered by injection molding, even for small batch runs. Professional ...

Injection molding is widely used in the manufacture of plastic parts ranging from simple, everyday items to complex products requiring precision tooling and process optimization equipment. During a ...

Many people don’t realize that an injection molding machine is something they can build themselves, even without a machine shop or other extensive setup. The hosts of the Canadian YouTube channel ...

Two of the biggest challenges in thermoplastic-composite molding are the high cost of metal tooling and the long lead times required to produce tools. Aside from the complexity of parts these ...

Friedrichshafen, Germany — Aichach, Germany-based mold maker Deckerform Technologies Toyo GmbH brought a strong focus on sustainability to Fakuma 2023, with several demonstrations of molding recycled ...