There are no machine operators employed at Plastic Components Inc., a custom injection molder with two facilities in Germantown, Wis. Most of the time, the "parts makers" at the company's roughly ...

Machinery exhibitors at NPE like nothing better than to place a big “SOLD!” sign on the machines they’re running. At NPE2018, Maruka USA (Lee’s Summit, MO) will feature a Toyo press at booth W911 that ...

Livonia, Mich. — ActuaPlast North America Inc. has added three new machines to its facility in Livonia. In May, the French automotive supplier purchased two new Milacron injection machines — one with ...

For molders who need to manufacture two-part plastic parts shipped in sets, such as top/bottom or right/left, the new Shadow injection molding machine from Milacron provides a space-saving solution.

While 3D printing has now become easily accessible and cheap, there are still several use cases where you need the advantages offered by injection molding, even for small batch runs. Professional ...

[Dan Royer] shared a tip about how to get a reliably tight fit between 3D printed parts and other hardware (like bearings, for example.) He suggests using crush ribs, a tried-and-true solution ...

The Kortec® Connect offering has been used successfully in molding coffee cups, caps, closures, personal care items, thinwall and medical parts and it can also be added to a PET monolayer system ...