Splay is one of the more common — and sometimes baffling — defects in plastic injection molded products. It is a cosmetic defect typically appearing as an off-color streak, often silver in hue, along ...

Among the most difficult processing challenges molders face on the production floor are color-related defects ranging from the appearance of color swirls to meeting customer requirements. These ...

We’ve made hundreds of thousands of molds over the years! With that much experience, it goes with the territory that we’ve seen designs in which injection molding expertise is evident, and other ...

Undercuts (such as those shown) can complicate and, in some cases, prevent part ejection. Eliminate them if possible. Undercuts on injection-molded parts are features that prevent those parts from ...

GI Plastek Corp., Precision Southeast Inc. and its subsidiary Plastic Solutions Inc. have merged to form PSI Molded Plastics. Gladstone Investment Corp., which owned the individual companies, is the ...

Monaco-based auto parts supplier Mecaplast Group has joined a stream of suppliers heading for Morocco as it plans to launch a car component injection molding plant at Kenitra in 2017. The firm is to ...

A thermoplastic composite technology that emerged just a couple of years ago promises to make dramatic strides within the next two years in automotive mass production of structural components. At ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...

Micro-injection molding focuses on producing small, high-precision parts and components with micron tolerances. Designers who are bound strictly by a set of rules will stymie their own capability and ...

An injection molded, threaded cap made from a 3D-printed metal mold insert, right, created on a Mantle P-200 machine. Within reach of you right now are probably five to 10 plastic products, or parts ...