Micro additive manufacturing (AM) technology developer, Nanofabrica, recently achieved success in trials of its development of direct rapid soft tooling (DRST). The company accomplished a breakthrough ...

As AM matures as a process not just for prototyping but for true production applications, there is an excitement about what the future may hold for manufacturing. Recently, there has been increased ...

KCLab has been appointed as sales partner for South Korea, representing Cevotec’s Samba robotic lamination equipment and supporting aerostructure and composite pressure vessel manufactures with local ...

Most of the plastic objects we see are created using injection molding, but designing such molds is a difficult task, usually requiring experts. Now, computer scientists from the Institute of Science ...

In what is being claimed as an injection molding first, a slide-table mold developed by Swiss moldmaker Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG (Busslingen) enables processors to vary the thickness of a layer of ...

Editor?s note: Bill Tobin is a plastics processing consultant and president of WJT Assoc. How does one determine the value of a mold? This is an interesting question that comes up occasionally in ...