Molding operations are highly dependent on productivity, efficiency, down time, and scrap levels. Failure in any of these categories can be catastrophic. One of the most critical procedures in any ...

Braunform GmbH helps customers improve efficiency and flexibility in their molding requirements with its latest innovation - a quick-changing system for large, multi-cavity molds. Multi-cavity ...

Mold making pioneer reports significant time and cost efficiencies utilizing this approach for low volume production, enabling molders to quickly change inserts for different products MINNEAPOLIS & ...

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 ...

Chuan Lih Fa (CLF) Machinery Works Co. Ltd, a globally renowned manufacturer of large plastic injection molding machines, is now making quick inroads with its Two Platen Plastic Injection Molding ...

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 ...

Despite the versatility of fluoropolymers in demanding, high-performance applications under harsh environments, many of them have been classified as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and are ...

This white paper provides methods and guidelines for using stereolithography (SLA) 3D printed molds in the injection molding process to lower costs and lead time. Injection molding is one of the ...

Importantly, the molds can be printed out of commonly-used polymers such as PLA, PETG or ABS without any worries about them melting – the system operates at a temperature range of 176 ºF to 410 ºF (80 ...

Rather than mimic the conventional functionality of a tool, something new is in the game: dissolvable molds. The soluble tooling technology uses the same printer but different materials, allowing for ...