Sara Arif grew up in a city that has a plastics mold tool and die shop for about every 3,000 people, so it wasn't too difficult to settle on a career as a mold maker. Arif started to learn the trade ...

The global market for plastic injection molded parts is currently valued at $325 billion, and this number is expected to grow by 5.7% through at least 2025. Spurred by the rapidly developing economies ...

This week we publish our ranking of North American mold makers. The top 100 are in print, but a total of 144 firms are online. The total related sales for fiscal 2020 is $3 billion, just up from $2.9 ...

Skaneateles, N.Y. -- Tessy Plastics Corp. has completed its acquisition of a tooling company and a manufacturer of plastic injection molds for consumer products and medical markets. Tessy said ...

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I caught ...

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 ...

This core was 3D printed from steel at Star Rapid using a Renishaw AM 250 printer. Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their ...

Thermoplastic components supplier Allegheny Performance Plastics has acquired Holbrook Tool and Molding Inc., an injection molding and tooling company based in Meadville, PA. Leetsdale, PA–based ...