At the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany, Netstal will present what company officials are calling a world's first: injection-compression molding on stack molds. Fakuma is set for Oct. 13-17 in ...

StackTeck announced an unconventional application for a big stack mold with Quick Product Change (QPC) features. This mold runs 2000 tons of production in a 1000-ton injection molding machine, in a ...

The concept of lean manufacturing is generally reserved for the molding process, but Tradesco Mold Ltd. is working to extend these concepts of waste reduction to the tool. "Increased flexibility in ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

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 ...