[Kurt Schaefer] was watching YouTube videos of people making molds for injection molding purposes using what he considered to be the toy 3018 CNC machines, and looking at the results, decided he ...

3D printing is great for prototyping, and not bad for limited runs of parts. Unfortunately though it really doesn’t scale well beyond a few pieces, so when you’re ready for the mass market you will ...

If you’re the type who likes to bring their work home with them, that can be problematic when you’re in the injection molding field. Those machines won’t easily fit into your average home workshop, ...

The SOTOP Recycling team, consisting of Manuel Maeder, Benjamin Krause, and Nadina Maeder, have developed an innovative automated injection molding machine that uses waste plastic to create new ...

If you’re interested in learning more about whether 3D printers can be used for injection molding. You might be interested in a series of tests carried out by the CNC Kitchen to explore the ...

But in life there is no free lunch (Ed. Actually we are offering you one in our Price Wise Challenge), and the price of these molds is very high, typically measured in the millions of dollars. Or at ...

The kids today have all grown up in a world in which there have always been game consoles, and the market has always been a three-way race between Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. For us old-timers ...

Injection molding is the biggest segment of the plastics industry, and is commonly used for both thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials. Material is fed into a barrel where a reciprocating ...