AI optimizes injection molding beyond human understanding, creating new challenges for process control and failure recovery.

Plastics industry veteran Paul Caprio has joined LS Mtron Injection Molding Machines USA (LS IMM USA) as President of Sales, effective January 23. After decades in the injection molding sector at ...

David Bernstein, CEO of Trexel Inc., talks about how the Core Back manufacturing process with MuCell creates lightweight plastic parts for the auto industry and others. Jessica Shapiro conducts the ...

Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

Anybrid GmbH (Dresden, Germany) is a spin-off from the Institute for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) at TU Dresden. ILK works with industry to develop new lightweight technologies ...

Lightweight parts, energy-saving processing or combining several process steps into one. It can all be summarized under one buzzword: sustainability. A technology that is highly promising is ...

An injection molding plant is a type of material-processing plant. Injection molding plants may serve as secondary processors that take raw plastic and form it to create parts for other end ...

The plastics industry continues to seek solutions to help it meet circular economy demands. As pressure builds for the industry to increase the amount of recycled plastics used in manufacturing, ...

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 ...