A two-stage Injection Control Unit (ICU) is said to provide levels of accuracy and reliability until now unavailable to injection molders using reciprocating screw technology. Launched by plastication ...

Ten years old and still going strong, Arburg?s Selogica control is built for the company?s versatile Allrounder line of machines, Arburg?s Multi-Lift robots, and its special-purpose auxiliaries. It?s ...

The criteria for selecting a Liquid Silicone Rubber injection molding machine are very similar to selecting a machine for standard thermoplastic injection molding, with some key differences. Let’s ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. When walking into any plastics processing plant, you’ll see a device called a temperature control unit, or TCU. A TCU ...

Injection molding is a critical manufacturing process, and has been so for a long time. It still has room to improve in several areas however, and “smart” injection molding equipment is gaining ...

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, ...

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 ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany—Arburg GmbH and Co. KG is introducing a new multi-component injection molding machine series with larger mold dimensions and ejector strokes and greater distances between the ...