A moldmaker said recently that it sometimes takes him up to eight months to validate a large, high-cavity medical mold. Maybe this surprises you, but it doesn’t surprise many OEMs in the medical and ...

Today's injection mold manufacturers are much more than 'just moldmakers.' As OEMs - particularly those in the medical and automotive industries - become more and more dependent upon their supply ...

At the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany, Netstal will present what company officials are calling a world's first: injection-compression molding on stack molds. Fakuma is set for Oct. 13-17 in ...

West Babylon, N.Y.-based Micelli Chocolate Mold Co. has acquired Edgewood, N.Y.-based Aztec Tool Co. Inc. to add in-house toolmaking and molding capabilities and it also has plans to eventually ...

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 ...

In the injection molding of plastics, in-mold sensors, as part of a variety of process control packages, have been around for decades. But comparatively recently, similar technology has begun to make ...

The metal molds market for plastic injection molding valuation is predicted to cross USD 6.5 billion by 2032, as reported in a research study by Global Market Insights Inc. The booming healthcare ...

Metal 3D printing has had years of success in the moldmaking sector, where new design possibilities for mold tools have supported better performance in the injection molding process. Two main ...

A joint research project by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (F-ICT, Pfintzal, Germany) and the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research (FPC, London, ON, Canada) has been ...