If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to injection molding. As it turns out, 3D printing can help in that regard, with injection ...

3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic ... Robert Seuffer, GmbH Molds, tooling, and cores Printed plastic molds can be used in injection, extrusion, and blow-molding processes.

Recently [Stefan] of CNC Kitchen took a gander at using his gaggle of 3D printers to try injection ... shut mold against the nozzle of the FDM printer to inject the molten plastic, rather than ...

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 ...

a process that quickly heats and cools a punch to form a plastic boss into a stake that holds parts together. The electronics holder was originally designed for injection molding, but the company ...

The Purchase, N.Y.-based company patented technology in late 2020 for a blow molding process that uses 3D printed mold inserts instead of metal tooling to create new bottle designs. The hybrid ...

Though 3D printing and injection moulding are just two manufacturing methods and processes from two different eras, they're both used to manufacture plastic and electronic components. Despite this, ...

First, a sheet of acrylic plastic ... molds and support fixtures. Lyons says that creating tooling and support fixtures is one of the longest and most labor-intensive parts of the process, so the ...

Scientists and engineers have developed a new coating for plastic ... a 3D printing process The researchers have demonstrated that the new coatings have the ability to add color and anti-mold ...