Injection molding is the obvious onward step from 3D printing when the making of a few plastic parts becomes their series manufacture. The problem with injection molding is though, that making a mold ...

Injection molding is the manufacturing process which is mostly used for the plastic items from toys and plastic trinkets to cell phone cases, automotive body parts, containers, water bottles, and more ...

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 ...

Designing plastic parts that can be molded has always been important for traditional injection molding processes, but it’s particularly beneficial for parts about to be rapid injection molded (RIM) to ...

Do you agree? Avery: If you want a basic injection molding machine to do a basic job, yeah. Just to mold something, OK. But if you want to really start to do multimaterial processing, or multiple ...

A two-stage Injection Control Unit (ICU) is said to provide levels of accuracy and reliability until now unavailable to injection molders using reciprocating screw technology. Launched by plastication ...