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 ...

Trexel has developed a new screw design that, when used in conjunction with Trexel’s MuCell microcellular foam process, will minimize damage to long-glass-fiber (12 mm or longer)-filled materials. The ...

Injection molding is a highly-engineered process that demands careful planning and attention to detail if the finished product is to achieve its full potential. The tips in this article should help ...

When it comes to manufacturing, sheet metal and injection molding make the world go ’round. As a manufacturing method, injection molding has its own range of unique design issues and gotchas that are ...

Polymer processing, injection molding, screw design, process modeling and analysis, and plastics process machinery design. Robert E. Nunn was a Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of ...

The extrusion division of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the chapter representing the Eastern New England section are offering a new screw design conference called Topcon. The two-day gathering ...