Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

New partnership set to broaden capabilities for industrial injection molding with ultrafast, large-format 3D printing 3D printed injection mold tooling enables complex geometries compatible with a ...

VENTURA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexa3D, the ultrafast polymer 3D printing leader, announced today that it completed the acquisition of Addifab, the originator of Freeform Injection Molding, a ...

CORE Industrial Partners-backed Fathom acquired Summit Tooling and Summit Plastics, precision tooling and injection molding services provider. Summit is the fourth add-on to the Fathom platform after ...

Chicago-based private-equity firm Core Industrial Partners announced today the acquisition of Summit Tooling Inc. and Summit Plastics Inc. by its portfolio company Fathom. The precision tooling and ...

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 caught ...

Lee's Summit, Mo.-based Creative Blow Mold Tooling has acquired Big 3 Precision Mold's Centralia, Ill.-based injection stretch blow mold tooling business segment. "Big 3's ISBM business is well ...

Injection overmolding of unidirectional fibers and preforms is an attractive process for many good reasons. It’s fast, consistent and repeatable, and it can be performed with a machine that is ...

Chicago-based private equity firm Core Industrial Partners has acquired Summit Tooling Inc. and Summit Plastics Inc. of McHenry, Ill., for its portfolio company Fathom. Fathom provides on-demand ...

Editor?s note: Bill Tobin is a plastics processing consultant and president of WJT Assoc. How does one determine the value of a mold? This is an interesting question that comes up occasionally in ...