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Do's and Don'ts for Overmolding Liquid Silicone onto Thermoplastics
Hard/soft overmolding has become a fundamental technique for injection molders in recent years, and a growing number of molders are extending that technology thermoset/thermoplastic combinations.
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Molder’s Message to Foreign Competitors: ‘Bring It On!’
An inspired combination of automation, ISO certification, use of certified resins, and strict adherence to a rigorous set of time-honed manufacturing standards are among the chief factors giving the Rodon Group, a 54-year-old custom molding operation in Hatfield, Pa., the confidence to boast that it can beat the pants off of Chinese part pricing, and Mexican pricing, too.And it’s not an idle boast.
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Multi-Shot Tooling Approaches Eliminate Part Welding
Three new multi-shot tooling concepts that involve stationary cavities and indexing cores use injection overmolding to eliminate post-mold welding operations and improve part quality and productivity while reducing scrap.
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'Do-It-All' Approach Keys One Processor's Growth
What shape will the successful North American plastics processing operation take as we move through the next decade?
Read MoreMold Design Software Gets an Upgrade
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Next month, Missler Software in France will release its newest mold-design and machining software, TopSolid Mold 2010.
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New Presses at Fakuma Show Focus on Energy & Performance
Beltless direct-drive electric machines and upgraded electric/hydraulic hybrids were introduced at the 20th Fakuma trade exhibition in Friedrichshafen, Germany, last month.
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On-Site: Injection Molding 'Outside the Box' at MGS Mfg. Group
Though it grabs a lot of headlines, multi-material, multi-shot processing still makes up only about 10% of injection molding activity in North America.
Read More3D Systems Launches Rapid Parts Service
3D Systems Corp., Rock Hill, S.C., a supplier of 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and rapid manufacturing equipment and materials, has acquired Acu-Cast Technologies, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., a provider of prototyping services.
Read MoreIncoe & Beaumont to Represent Each Other
Incoe Corp., Troy, Mich., and Beaumont Technologies, Inc. (BTI), Erie, Pa., have agreed to allow each to sell the other’s products.
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