During a tour last week of the manufacturing facility of Sacmi Imola, the world’s leading manufacturer of compression molding equipment, MPW learned that the company’s CBF (Compression Blow Forming) ...

Compression molding involves forming of complex shaped components by molding of a charge of fiber reinforced prepreg bulk molding compound (BMC) under heat and high pressures. Unidirectional fiber ...

About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

Netstal, at Fakuma 2015 in Germany, showed what company officials said is a world first: Injection/compression molding on a stack mold. During the show, a Netstal Elion press was molding a margarine ...

Core Molding Technologies, Inc. (NYSE American: CMT) (“Core Molding”, “Core” or the “Company”), a leading engineered materials company specializing in molded structural products, principally in ...

CLINTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When a major aerospace OEM needed a thermally conductive, autoclavable resin to advance the performance of 3D-printed composite molds for compression molding, it ...

The hybrid-composite rear load floor uses unidirectional (UD) thermoplastic tapes plus direct-long-fiber thermoplastic (D-LFT) composites. Thermoplastic tapes provided high stiffness/strength in a ...

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 ...

Recycling plastic at home using 3D printed molds is relatively accessible these days, but if you do not wish to invest a lot of money into specialized equipment, what’s the most minimal setup that you ...