About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

This week we publish our ranking of North American mold makers. The top 100 are in print but all 140 firms are online. Those 140 companies reported total 2019 fiscal year sales of $2.9 billion, a 0.1 ...

Workforce development is the biggest ongoing challenge facing mold makers, according the American Mold builders Association's Business Forecast Report. "The No. 1 challenge that all we face actually ...

The hybrid-composite rear load floor uses unidirectional (UD) thermoplastic tapes plus direct-long-fiber thermoplastic (D-LFT) composites. Thermoplastic tapes provided high stiffness/strength in a ...

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 ...