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Material Selection for a Plastic Injection Molded Product
5/24/2013
Material selection is critical to all aspects of the finished product. When deciding upon the right resin for the product or component, several factors must be considered. Along with material selection, there are three...
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Design Tips for Rapid Injection Molding
5/16/2013
One of the many benefits of plastic resin is the ease with which it can be molded into complex shapes. This often allows a single part to replace two or more parts made of other materials. Among the complex features...
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Material Selection & Thin-Wall Micromolding Study
5/8/2013
This study tackles one of the most widely asked questions of Accumold, resin selection assistance. This study shows how, in terms of micro-molding, picking resins based on data sheets can be misleading or confusing. It’...
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Micro Molding: Reduce the Cost to Manufacture a Medical Device
2/28/2013
On January 1, 2013 a new 2.3% tax went into effect on the sale price of medical devices. As companies look for ways to offset the cost of the medical device tax they should consider the use of new technologies to reduce...
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Micro Injection Moulding of Fine Ceramics
2/19/2013
Our new technical report published in the magazine "Commercial Micro Manufacturing International", Issue 01/13
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Micro-injection molding puts ceramics in top form
2/7/2013
Technical report which was published in the magazine "Mikroproduktion"
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Ideas for Micromolding – Two Shot Molding Conversion
10/25/2012
Mikrotech is a leading full service micromanufacturer of custom-designed miniature components and subassemblies for medical devices used in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
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What is Design of Experiment for Injection Molding
10/19/2012
When developing a new product using injection molding processes, the customer wants to achieve specific levels of product performance. The manufacturer wants to have a certain level of production efficiency. The end...
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Plastics Star in the Micro-Miniature World of Gearing
10/18/2012
The performance of molded polymer gears continues to improve with new design solutions, improved materials, and higher accuracy molding.
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Two-Shot Silicone–Thermoplastic Medical Molding
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
9/5/2012
Medical device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are facing intense pressure to create innovative designs and maintain the highest quality over a product’s lifecycle, while also designing for low-cost...
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Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
9/5/2012
Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding has been steadily gaining a foothold in many markets due to its ability to produce intricate elastomeric components with relatively short cycle times. The automotive industry...
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Designing for Moldability Volume 2: Undercuts and Through-Holes
7/25/2012
Houses in Monopoly™ land have no doors or windows. Maybe the tiny people who live there spend a lot of time indoors, or perhaps they’ve perfected teleportation. More likely, it’s because doorless windowless plastic...
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Design Tips for Rapid Injection Molding Volume 8
7/25/2012
Let’s face it; a gate is a necessary evil, a break in the otherwise continuous surface of an injection mold. While its vestiges are typically removed after molding, either automatically or manually, it leaves its “...
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Custom or standard rubber part? 6 factors to consider
Vicone High Performance Rubber Inc.
6/27/2012
While standard silicone or other rubber products are more readily available than customized solutions, they may not always be cheaper or the best solution for your particular application. Deciding whether to go with a...
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Learn how GW Plastics Re-Designed, Re-Engineered and Re-Tooled an Intricate Breast Biopsy Device.
4/16/2012
There’s no substitute for hard work and ingenuity in the plastics business. But when it comes to simultaneously innovating both product and process for the medical industry, it takes a powerful combination of...
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Learn how GW Plastics Perfected the Design and Production of a Tissue Marker Device
4/16/2012
When a leading medical device company came to GW Plastics with an existing project in need of improvement, GW proved to be just the partner they needed to bring their product to market. With initial drawings for a...
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Micromolding: A Cost-Effective Alternative to Micromachining
5/13/2011
Historically, machining has been the only feasible manufacturing alternative for manufacturers sourcing low-to-moderate quantities of microcomponents. Molders, because of the modest volumes or the complexity of the...
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Micro Molding: Meeting the Challenges of Designing Medical Devices for Minimally Invasive Surgery
5/13/2011
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been widely adopted for certain surgical procedures but not those that are complex. Manufacturers are seeking to design new devices that will allow open surgeries to be converted to...
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Micro Molding: An Alternative to Offshoring Medical Devices for Minimally Invasive Surgery
5/13/2011
Medical device companies have long benefited from the global outsourcing of labor and manufacturing and are now expanding the role of global outsourcing to include product design and development. However, many of the...
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The Prototyping Challenges with Micro Molding: A Comparative Study of Prototyping Methods for Micro Molding Applications
4/27/2011
The goal of this paper is to discuss the various methods, challenges and variables for prototyping micro-sized and/or micro-featured plastic parts. It is also important to recognize that every part design is different...
