The molding machine has vital elements to promote the correct formation of parts from the plastic. These parts include hopper, barrel, screw, heaters, movable platen, nozzle, mold, and mold cavity. In ...

Think you’ve squeezed the maximum weight and cycle time out of your injection-molded design? Users of MuCell microcellular-foam technology beg to differ. They’ve cut part weight 8 to 12% without major ...

Proto Labs has released a book “Injection Molding for Dummies,” written by Tom Tremblay. The group worked with the “For Dummies” people at Wiley & Sons Inc. to create an easy-to-understand guide to ...

Getting early feedback on your CAD model can save you time and money later. Bringing in your supplier early to help review your needs against geometry limitations will prevent surprises and added ...

Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. has introduced the UltraShot injection system, which it describes as a next-generation melt delivery and control system that eliminates the deficiencies of ...

ME 325 teaches injection molding hands-on (NIC FORT/The Stanford Daily). In ME 325: “Making Multiples: Scaled Manufacturing Tooling,” undergraduate and graduate students engage in injection molding, a ...

When it comes to manufacturing, sheet metal and injection molding make the world go ’round. As a manufacturing method, injection molding has its own range of unique design issues and gotchas that are ...

To robustly secure plastic housings for the wheelchair accessory, the part incorporated threaded metal inserts into molded plastic housings to improve strength. Power wheelchair users have the ...