Overmolding, an injection molding process, has drastically changed the aesthetics, design, and functionality of consumer products over the last decade. It is increasingly finding its way into the ...

Injection overmolding of unidirectional fibers and preforms is an attractive process for many good reasons. It’s fast, consistent and repeatable, and it can be performed with a machine that is ...

At the Emballage packaging trade show in France last autumn, injection/blowmolder PDG Plastiques (Malesherbes, France) was awarded the 'Oscar de l'emballage' (packaging Oscar) for its work in ...

Proto Labs, known for its super-fast-turn prototyping and low-volume production services with multiple materials and processes, has added another service to its repertoire: rapid overmolding. At last ...

Bring together two different materials to take advantage of the best assets of both-that, in a nutshell, is overmolding. One of the most popular material combinations continues to be a thermoplastic ...

Read a company business plan, and the part that talks about taking the product to market often also mentions figuring out how to bring down the production cost per item. Proto Labs in Maple Plain says ...

Functionalizing semi-finished pultruded/pull-wound profiles. In searching for low-cost processes to add functionalization to its semi-finished composite profiles and tubes, and to reduce the use of ...