At the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany, Netstal will present what company officials are calling a world's first: injection-compression molding on stack molds. Fakuma is set for Oct. 13-17 in ...

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 ...

Milacron is showing 10 machines at its booth this week, including an injection press featuring a double-turning stack mold with two rotating cubes doing in-mold assembly. Milacron also is rolling out ...

BMB-Spa will unveil its "true” hybrid electric injection molding machine to the U.S. market at NPE2012 (booth #323). BMB will be running a 550-ton high-speed manufacturing cell, producing an ultra ...

A moldmaker said recently that it sometimes takes him up to eight months to validate a large, high-cavity medical mold. Maybe this surprises you, but it doesn’t surprise many OEMs in the medical and ...

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 ...

Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

All-electric molding machines enhance productivity while slashing energy costs. All-electric injection-molding technology is taking hold in the packaging industry because it is usually more productive ...

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 ...