German manufacturer Rösler installs automated de-flashing system at US facility to improve production quality and efficiency ...

Engineered Plastic Components Inc., a Grinnell, Iowa-based injection molder, has purchased its second all-electric 3,300-ton injection molding machine. The machine, which was purchased for an ...

Hydraulic injection molding machines remain a popular option on many shop floors, especially for the production of larger parts. Once the dominant machine in the injection molding segment, hydraulic ...

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 ...

An injection molding plant is a type of material-processing plant. Injection molding plants may serve as secondary processors that take raw plastic and form it to create parts for other end ...

AI optimizes injection molding beyond human understanding, creating new challenges for process control and failure recovery.

Anybrid GmbH (Dresden, Germany) is a spin-off from the Institute for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) at TU Dresden. ILK works with industry to develop new lightweight technologies ...

With the miniaturization of many products, manufacturers are streamlining devices to pack more features into smaller packages. For instance, the pitch (spacing) between contacts in electrical ...

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 ...

Injection molding machines are able to form very detailed plastic parts, simply by squirting plastic into a mold. 3D printers squirt plastic. Why no one thought of using a 3D printer extruder to push ...