Shindo noncrimp fabrics (NCFs) have been used for various products in the aerospace, marine, civil construction, and repair and reinforcement fields. There are four features that characterize this new ...

Hybrid manufacturing technique. 9T Labs has developed a hybrid manufacturing technique using its Additive Fusion Technology (AFT), positioning continuous fiber preforms in high-stress regions of a ...

ROSEMONT, ILL. — While it may seem like injection molding is the only way to produce caps and closures, it turns out to be far from the truth. Compression molding is offering many companies another ...

Compression molding is a high-volume thermoset molding process that employs expensive but very durable metal dies. It is an appropriate choice when production quantities exceed 10,000 parts. As many ...

CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 6:10 p.m. EDT) — Sacmi Imola S.C. of Imola, Italy, introduced a 24-station compression molding press that it said produces blemish-free plastic caps with diameters up to 70 ...

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 ...

Chopped prepreg molding compound (CPMC), a relatively new material form resembling molding compounds made from chopped resin impregnated tow, provides design and processing engineers various benefits ...

Until now, simulative mold and process design were limited mainly to modern injection molding technology. SIGMASOFT® has already been utilized successfully by leading elastomers processors, and their ...

System-in-Package (SiP) technology has been used for a wide range of electronic devices, but the warpage behavior of the package can be difficult to control and predict due to complex manufacturing ...