Design engineers face continuous pressure to enhance product performance while driving down costs. For many devices, converting metal components to plastic is an effective way of achieving both goals.

Setting up plastic injection molding processes can seem like a daunting task. After all, there are many different defects that can lead to scrap when a process has been set up incorrectly. The key to ...

In blow molding with non-conformal temperature control, changes in environmental thermal conditions can affect product quality even when machine settings remain unchanged. Conventional studies often ...

Plastic injection molding efficiency is dependent on the ability of a molder to control and reduce unplanned downtime. A chaotic maintenance strategy leads to scheduling failures, erosion of customer ...

Injection molding is one of the technologies that makes the world go round. But what does it actually look like to go through the whole process to get a part made? [Achim Haug] wrote up a blog post ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molded Devices Inc. is adding manufacturing muscle in both the Northeast and China through the purchase of Seitz LLC. The plastics parts maker is significantly increasing injection molding capacity ...