Manufacturing plastic injection molds is unusual among the various CNC machining market segments because of the competitive pressures: Mold shop owners have to be ready to take on various jobs that ...

Addman Advanced Metals has scaled from a single 3D printer to 25 while also building out a robust array of subtractive machines. In this video, find out how the shop manages its additive and ...

One mold maker exhibiting at NPE2018 can talk as much about attracting young people to the trade as it can its latest tooling programs: Unique Tool & Gauge Inc. of Windsor, Ontario. The company has ...

Each release of the Solid Edge solid-modeling program has been more capable than the last. V15 is no different. It includes better data management, assembly functions, drawings are easier to do than ...

Addman Advanced Metals has scaled from a single 3D printer to 25 while also building out a robust array of subtractive machines. In this video, find out how the shop manages its additive and ...

Two-shot injection molding and the right materials put soft-touch grips and watertight seals on an expanding array of structural plastics. There are times when hard plastics need softer qualities.

The key to being a good plastics processor requires more than setting up validated injection molding processes — you also need to be able analyze those processes when they stop working. Process ...