(MENAFN- Robotics & Automation News) A guy spent $22,000 on a steel mold. Parts came back warped. The wall thickness was wrong. The factory said it was his design. He said it was their fault. Six ...

Precision molded thermoplastic parts are used in everything from catheters and IVD cartridges to drug-delivery systems. In fact, the vast majority of medical devices include precision molded ...

Injection molding is a critical manufacturing process, and has been so for a long time. It still has room to improve in several areas however, and “smart” injection molding equipment is gaining ...

ProMed, a contract manufacturer specializing in liquid silicone rubber (LSR) and highly regulated combination products, has announced new process refinements in the LSR injection molding process ...

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 ...

Figure 1. Pressurized nitrogen gas is injected into a melt to penetrate the part via a network of thicker cross-sectioned gas channels (click to enlarge). Gas-assist injection molding was developed ...

Cincinnati Process Technologies (CPT; Cincinnati, OH), a supplier of machinery, parts, services and technology for the plastics molding industry, recently completed an injection machine retrofit for ...