You’ve likely seen many tutorials on making silicone parts using 3D printed molds online. The vast majority of these methods use a simple pour method to fill the mold. This relies on careful … ...

After 60 years at the firm started by his father, John Winzeler is retiring and has sold his gear molding business to a ...

The mold has good surface finish, which is crucial for injection molding nice parts. It’s also fitted with ejection pins for easy part removal after each shot of injection molded plastic.

Injection molding is the largest plastics industry sector, and continues to outperform the overall industrial average. It is a fast process that is used to produce a large number of identical ...

The fundamental best practices of plastic design still apply for micromolding, just at a smaller scale. See James Conkey from Accumold, a micromolding firm, describe the firm's Micro-Mold process ...

Hydraulic injection molding machines remain a popular option on many shop floors, especially for the production of larger parts.

CNC Kitchen tests whether it is possible to use 3D printers to injection mold plastic components with surprising results. Injection molding ...

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I ...