This growth included multiple expansions, including the acquisition in 2006 of Accutech Mold & Engineering and ICM Plastics, a company specializing in thermoset and extrusion blow molding. In 2011, ...

Many student-designed academic projects never leave the drawing board. Students can spend weeks designing and evaluating their concepts, but they never have the opportunity to create the actual ...

Rather than mimic the conventional functionality of a tool, something new is in the game: dissolvable molds. The soluble tooling technology uses the same printer but different materials, allowing for ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

PepsiCo Inc. is using additive manufacturing in addition to blow molding to develop beverage bottles faster at a reduced cost. The Purchase, N.Y.-based company patented technology in late 2020 for a ...