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 ...

Injection overmolding of unidirectional fibers and preforms is an attractive process for many good reasons. It’s fast, consistent and repeatable, and it can be performed with a machine that is ...

Injection molding is widely used in the manufacture of plastic parts ranging from simple, everyday items to complex products requiring precision tooling and process optimization equipment. During a ...

Wittmann Battenfeld will show its newly developed injection-compression process called Hi-Q shaping in a demonstration of micro molding at the Medtec show in Stuttgart (Feb. 26 to 28). One of the ...

The injection molding process begins with the user pouring a liquid elastomer mixture into the injection chamber. Saltgator offers its own system-specific SoftGel material, although the company is ...

Optical components are important in many industrial applications like optical sensors or for lighting purposes. As a part of consumer electronics products, such as cameras or DVD players, they play an ...

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 ...

The conversation around 3D printing and traditional manufacturing methods like injection molding or thermoforming is often oppositional, but it’s not always a question of one versus the other. In ...

In 2016, ANSYS achieved annual revenue of over $1 billion. This revenue scale not only surpasses most CAD/CAM software companies but also officially declares the era of CAE-driven design has arrived.