Injection Molding

KraussMaffei Appoints New Sales Manager

KraussMaffei has appointed Michael Kreitner as its Western Michigan Territorial Sales Manager focusing on injection molding.

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Reiloy Adds Barrel-Manufacturing Capacity

New facility in Wichita area is equipped with two electrically induced centrifugal casting lines and a metallurgical lab.

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Tooling

Westfall Technik Opens Medical Molding Facility

The one-time MGS plant outside Chicago in Antioch, Ill. features multiple cleanrooms and will become a micromolding center of excellence. 

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Prove Your Molding Mettle

Multiple injection molders have put their parts forward to win the first-ever Hot Shots Injection Molded part competition—enter your most unmoldable part to prove your plastics prowess.

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color

Controller-Guided Procedure for Faster Hot-Runner Color Changes

Husky partnered with Chem-Trend to speed hot-runner color changes, pairing a new guided procedure within the Altanium Mold Controller with Chem-Trend’s Ultra Purge brand of purging compound.

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X2F Taps Mold-Masters Veteran as New Technology Director

Amidst a commercialization push, the Loveland, Colo. based creator of a new injection molding technology announced Ken Jacob as its new technology director.

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Tooling

VEM Group Opens Plant in Bulgaria

The California headquartered injection molder and moldmaker moved into a new facility in Plovdiv in January 2021.

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best practices

Apply the Power of a Troubleshooting Checklist to Your Process

Pocket guides provide processors an injection molding “crib sheet,” but in a process with thousands of interactions, applying if-this/then-that logic can’t always get you to a problem’s root cause.

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Going for the Green vs. Getting in the Hole

Too often when designing a tool or establishing a process, molders go for the hole in one when they only need to aim for the green.

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‘Universal’ Structural Foam Nozzles And Manifold Components

Wilmington now provides these components for all makes of  structural-foam machines.

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