You’ve likely seen many tutorials on making silicone parts using 3D printed molds online. The vast majority of these methods use a simple pour method to fill the mold. This relies on careful degassing ...

Keeping moldability top of mind during the design process not only ensures that parts perform as intended, but can help save time and cut down on production costs. Before it even hits the factory ...

We’ve made hundreds of thousands of molds over the years! With that much experience, it goes with the territory that we’ve seen designs in which injection molding expertise is evident, and other ...

When it comes to manufacturing, sheet metal and injection molding make the world go ’round. As a manufacturing method, injection molding has its own range of unique design issues and gotchas that are ...

In this free guide, you'll learn best practices on how to optimize designs for the injection molding process, based on industry knowledge from Fictiv's team of injection molding experts. Fictiv is a ...

Injection molded plastics have revolutionized design, innovation, and manufacturing in the 20th century. Before 1950, most products were manufactured in stamped steel, die-cast aluminum, zinc, and ...

Cloud-based product development solutions are redefining how innovative firms design, develop and bring to market new products. Cloud-based product development lets users focus on iterating and ...

In the world of modern manufacturing, selecting the right material and production process can make or break a product’s success. Among the wide array of thermoplastics available today, Acrylonitrile ...

Parts or runners sticking can cause frustration for any injection molder. Runners sticking can lead to dry shots or cause the press to go down frequently when the robot detects missing parts. Parts ...

Mold making pioneer reports significant time and cost efficiencies utilizing this approach for low volume production, enabling molders to quickly change inserts for different products MINNEAPOLIS & ...

A new thermoplastic composite for high-speed, high-volume injection molding has tensile strength that's close to, and sometimes better than, either lay-up composites or metals. Kyron MAX is a new line ...

The two most common methods of cooler manufacturing are rotomolding (rotational molding) or injection molding. Rotomolded coolers are considered to be more durable, with a lower likelihood of cracks ...