In light of the hot electrical trend in injection molding machines, it seems logical that assembly equipment should follow suit. Many manufacturers at NPE were offering welders with servomotors instead of pneumatics, pushing high precision as a benefit. It also appeared that they were attempting to...

Several hundred molding machines were strutting their stuff at NPE, and with the machine demonstrations stretching the boundaries of the molder's art, there was plenty to observe and linger over. Our report gives you the flavor of today's molding machine along with a glimpse to the future. Working-...

I magine, if you will, outsourcing on steroids. That phrase only begins to define MedSource Technologies, a contract manufacturer for the medical market. While this all-encompassing group has 10 locations, its molding facility-MedSource Danbury-is the focus of our tour. Formerly known as Tenax, a...

I njection molded products are used in a variety of industrial applications, ranging from farm machinery, construction equipment, and machine tools, to firearms and chemical equipment. However, it is an arena that molded plastics have made limited inroads into, showing only a 2 percent hold on the...