The majority of mold components Hi-Tech Mold & Engineering prints are in MS1 alloy (maraging steel), which has properties similar to P20, making post-print machining, EDM, grinding and welding much ...

Just like Yellowstone’s Old Faithful, molds need to blow off steam. When questions about nonconforming part quality arise, often the answers can be found in inadequate mold venting. Even if the mold ...

New venting plugs, used in injection molding tools for mold cavity venting, eliminate burns that can occur on the part when high-temperature air cannot escape fast enough or at all from the mold.

Why do Injection Molds need vents? This is a very crucial question about injection molds. Fundamentally, vents in injection molds are needed to solve a simple but critical problem: when molten plastic ...