Chuan Lih Fa (CLF) Machinery Works Co. Ltd, a globally renowned manufacturer of large plastic injection molding machines, is now making quick inroads with its Two Platen Plastic Injection Molding ...

Injection molding is the obvious onward step from 3D printing when the making of a few plastic parts becomes their series manufacture. The problem with injection molding is though, that making a mold ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

Stow, Ohio-based Esterle Mold & Machine Co. might not be a heavyweight in terms of name recognition, but the family business is making some of the region's largest — and heaviest — plastic components.

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. With this machine, ENGEL aims to enable technologies and components in entirely new dimensions together with its ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany—Arburg GmbH and Co. KG is introducing a new multi-component injection molding machine series with larger mold dimensions and ejector strokes and greater distances between the ...

Designed for top loading/unloading injection-molding machines, the KS Series of shelf-mounted 6-axis robots has a low profile for platen-mounted robots, which reduces required ceiling heights for ...

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 ...

Injection molding: a lot harder than you'd think! I picked up a benchtop injection molding machine to play with, and thought a "simple" double convex singlet lens would be a good first project.

Over the past 15 years, Complete Machining Services (CMS) Inc. has tried to adapt its precision machining and fabricating services to market demands. Accomplishing that has typically involved ...