The regulatory burden on manufacturing has skyrocketed over the past few years. According to a report from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the cost of federal regulations in 2012 was ...

It’s almost axiomatic: When you’ve demolded a composite component, the job’s only half done. The addition of an attractive color, product logo and/or other decoration is an important part of making ...

At the second station, host company Distinctive Plastics showed a 3D in-mold decoration process that a Fanuc six-axis robot attended. Kurz Transfer Products LP of Charlotte, N.C., demonstrated its ...

Dale Brosius , Contributing Writer, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) Composite parts are decorated for a number of reasons. In most cases, the appearance of the part ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 30, 3:40 p.m. EST) — In-mold assembly and in-mold decorating are attractive to U.S. injection molders looking for a way to compete globally, according to two speakers at the ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

IDTechEx's new report, "In-Mold Electronics 2023-2033", aims to answer this question. It analyses the emerging manufacturing methodology of in-mold electronics (IME), which promises a simpler and more ...