Tooling
With This New Process, You Can't Be Too Thin or Too Fast
Minneapolis custom molder Midwest Plastics Components (MPC) hopes that helping to pioneer a novel high-speed injection molding concept will give it a leg up in the emerging micro-molding market for precision thin-wall parts that weigh less than a gram.
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Auto Glazing: Window of Opportunity for Molders
This emerging market promises to be big but challenging. Polycarbonate car windows require specialized machinery, high-end processing capability, premium polymers, advanced coating technologies, and innovative mold and runner designs.
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Keep Molds Running Longer
New low-friction, high-hardness coatings and upgraded deposition technologies are expanding the range of surface treatments to help tooling stand up to tougher molding challenges.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Mold Maintenance
Welcome to a new column dedicated to improving efficiency in your tool room and the health and performance of your molds.
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Mold Analysis Gets Faster, Easier, Smarter
On Dec. 28, Moldflow Corp. began shipping a major new release of its flagship injection mold simulation software, Moldflow Plastics Insight 6.0.
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Family-Run Molder and Mold Maker Prospers for More Than 50 Years
How does a small, family-owned custom molder remain competitive for 53 years without multiple plants, offshore clients, a specialized market niche, or unique leading-edge technology?
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Hybrid Prototyping Process Combines Casting and Machining
A new rapid-prototyping technique combines casting with CNC milling in a novel way to create prototype parts fas ter than conventional rapid prototyping approaches—and it all happens in one machine.
Read More50 Ideas That Changed Plastics
Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.
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Rapid Tooling: It's Faster in Molding, Too
Rapid tooling technology is not just about speedy moldmaking. Now it also signifies higher productivity in molding. The latest RT technology achieves dramatically faster cooling and stands up to long-run molding, as well.
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