As developers in the automotive and airline industries push to make more efficient vehicles, they are turning their attention to designing sturdy, lightweight machines. Designing lightweight materials ...

"Together with automobile manufacturers, we're developing even more applications worldwide for Vestamelt," says Martin Risthaus, the global business manager for Lightweight Design at Evonik.

Singapore’s Advanced Materials Technologies has recently developed and patented a new aluminium metal injection moulding process, they call aluMIM. The original aluMIM process combines the advantages ...

Unique was one of the large automotive tooling suppliers that pioneered the use of aluminum for production molds, working in tandem with Honda Motor Co. more than a decade ago to collect data and ...

[JohnSL] and his friend both have injection molding machines. They decided to compare the aluminum molds they usually use with some 3D printed molds created with a resin printer. They used two ...

In the injection molding of plastics, in-mold sensors, as part of a variety of process control packages, have been around for decades. But comparatively recently, similar technology has begun to make ...

The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF)’s MIM2026 has concluded in Jacksonville and featured eighteen technical ...

For short production runs and prototyping, it is cost effective to use 3D printed molds or CNC aluminum molds versus traditional injection molding? What are the current advantages and drawbacks of ...

Chaska-based Entegris Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTG) announced Tuesday it acquired a minority position in the Protomold Co. of Maple Plain. According to Entegris, the move extends its core competencies in rapid ...

Injection molding is a highly-engineered process that demands careful planning and attention to detail if the finished product is to achieve its full potential. The tips in this article should help ...

Injection molding machine suppliers feature prominently at this month’s PTXPO in Chicago; see what the press makers have planned for their exhibits.