How should manufacturers decide between plastic vs metal parts when developing a new product? According to a HelloNation ...

One of the greatest disadvantages of plastic materials is their flexibility and relatively low stiffness. One of the greatest advantages of plastic materials is their flexibility and low stiffness.

Injection molded plastics have revolutionized design, innovation, and manufacturing in the 20th century. Before 1950, most products were manufactured in stamped steel, die-cast aluminum, zinc, and ...

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 ...

In the past, these have included an industrial thermometer, equipment for a coating process, and a specialized remote control for TV-editing stations. In our work, we often use the services of the ...

Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

We’ve made hundreds of thousands of molds over the years! With that much experience, it goes with the territory that we’ve seen designs in which injection molding expertise is evident, and other ...

Lightweight parts, energy-saving processing or combining several process steps into one. It can all be summarized under one buzzword: sustainability. A technology that is highly promising is ...

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 ...

Davalor Mold Co. has acquired Industrial Molding Corp. from publicly held NN Inc. in a $16 million all-cash deal. IMC was NN's only plastics products plant, officials with Davalor in Chesterfield, ...

FIFE, Wash.—Molded Dimensions L.L.C. is acquiring GlobalTech Plastics L.L.C. in an injection molding deal. GlobalTech, based in Fife, makes highly engineered injection molded plastic parts for the ...

Researchers have developed a new processing technique that could enable mass production of intricate, high-performance glass objects that cost as little as plastic ones (Science 2021, DOI: ...