But first a question: What do Dale Bohm of Mastercraft Industries and Scott Mackler and Tom Albano of Cleanroom Consulting LLC have in common? All three will present during the "cleanroom injection ...

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 ...

Flextronics International Ltd. is making a big move in injection tooling, both establishing a new operation in Illinois and possibly acquiring existing facilities in Arizona, Florida and Illinois. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making silicone molds seems easy, but there are a lot of missteps to be made along the way that can mean the difference between a great, reusable mold, and one that’s a sad waste of silicone. If ...