Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as 3D printing, moved beyond its initial use in industry solely for prototype development years ago. It’s no longer uncommon for manufacturers to produce ...

Like machine tools before them, injection-molding machines started going electric more than a decade ago as some of their builders jumped at the chance to improve energy efficiency, repeatability, ...

Structural analyis codes already do a good job predicting the performance of molded plastic parts. Yet, their results never tell the full story because the mechanical properties of those parts depend ...

For Engel Machinery Inc. (Booth S1685), NPE 2003 is the largest of times and the smallest of times. Engel is showing its largest all-electric press, a 200-ton E-Motion, molding a coaster. The E-Motion ...

The global market for plastic injection molded parts is currently valued at $325 billion, and this number is expected to grow by 5.7% through at least 2025. Spurred by the rapidly developing economies ...

Packaging companies all over the world rely on closed-loop blow molding to manufacture millions of plastic bottles and containers. The process is hot and requires forming and moving thousands of ...