AKRON, OHIO — Prospect Mold and Die Co. has added a multi-shot Engel injection press — that can run up to four injection units — to sample its tooling for automotive headlight and taillight lenses, ...

Using molds to shape things is as old as humanity. In the Bronze Age, the copper-tin alloy was melted and cast into weapons in ceramic molds. Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids ...

Anybrid GmbH (Dresden, Germany) is a spin-off from the Institute for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) at TU Dresden. ILK works with industry to develop new lightweight technologies ...

Back when I was editing trade publications covering medical manufacturing, minimally invasive surgery was a hot topic, and I remember contract manufacturers telling me that the one question customers ...

For a camera enclosure part, pre-consolidated carbon fiber is rolled out onto the Eastman S125 cutting table. Precision cutting enables Rapid Composites’ ultra-fast composite molding process. Speed, ...

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 ...

Rigid and flexible polyurethane foams from General Plastics are frequently employed to create production parts in a vast range of industries, from automotive, aerospace and medical markets to ...