While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...

At what point does it make sense to 3D print a part compared to opting for injection molding? The short answer is “it depends.” The medium-sized answer is, “it depends on some back-of-the-envelope ...

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 & ...

Structur3D, an innovator in the advanced additive manufacturing market for soft materials based in Kitchener, ON, Canada, has partnered with Stanley Black & Decker on the development of a desktop ...

A paper presented by David Kazmer, Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell at the recent ANTEC conference estimates that 3D printing currently makes sense for the ...

Nissha Printing Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan), a manufacturer of in-mold decoration (IMD) parts for automotive and home appliance OEMs, announced that it is partnering with TactoTek (Menlo Park, CA), a ...

Detroit — Can 3D printing compete on the same manufacturing level as injection molding? HP Inc.'s David Woodlock thinks it can — eventually. Woodlock, who handles market development for 3D printing at ...

Prototyping and low-volume production have long been a challenge for companies that design and manufacture injection-molded parts. Ideally, prototypes for validation should be made of the same ...

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I caught ...

This core was 3D printed from steel at Star Rapid using a Renishaw AM 250 printer. Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their ...