Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their arsenal: 3D printing. This disruptive technology has great promise for rapid ...

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 ...

Injection molding machines are able to form very detailed plastic parts, simply by squirting plastic into a mold. 3D printers squirt plastic. Why no one thought of using a 3D printer extruder to push ...

Rather than mimic the conventional functionality of a tool, something new is in the game: dissolvable molds. The soluble tooling technology uses the same printer but different materials, allowing for ...

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 caught ...

Injection molding has long been the optimal method to rapidly make plastic components in large quantities. However, 3D printer manufacturer Type A Machines (San Francisco, CA) has just announced a low ...

This white paper provides methods and guidelines for using stereolithography (SLA) 3D printed molds in the injection molding process to lower costs and lead time. Injection molding is one of the ...

Detroit — Can 3D printing compete on the same manufacturing level as injection molding? HP Inc.'s David Woodlock thinks it can — eventually. Woodlock, who handles market development for 3D printing at ...

Exothermic Molding Inc. is a reaction injection molding company founded in 1972 that initially served the medical, electronics, and lab instruments market. Since then, it has expanded into many other ...

Structur3D, an innovator in the advanced additive manufacturing market for soft materials based in Kitchener, ON, Canada, has partnered with Stanley Black & Decker on the development of a desktop ...

To mimic the dexterity of human hands, robot grippers have undergone significant advancements to pick and place a variety of products ever more deftly. Many of these advances were based on giving ...

The 2024 Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF) showed how the manufacturing industry is adapting to the needs of electric vehicle manufacturing and adopting new technology including AI and ...