You’ve likely seen many tutorials on making silicone parts using 3D printed molds online. The vast majority of these methods use a simple pour method to fill the mold. This relies on careful degassing ...

While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...

The challenge to rapidly create high-performance products withthe fewest components is common among device designers and the manufacturersthat produce them. One solution is to create single-molded ...

Injection overmolding of bondable liquid silicone rubber and two-shot silicone-thermoplastic molding represent recent additions to the U.S. medical molding market. The BioSil line of self-bonding ...

OFTERING, Austria—Elmet, a manufacturer of equipment for silicone and rubber parts, has released a new, all-electric cold runner for liquid silicone rubber injection molding. The Smartshot E cold ...

Maximizing the benefits of high consistency rubber silicone for injection molding and leveraging its versatility requires special considerations to manufacture quality parts. As with organic polymer ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In addition to its already being marketed liquid silicone rubber form, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Tokyo, President, Yasuhiko Saitoh) has now developed a molding ...

Silicone-thermoplastic two-shot molding has been used for more than 20 years in automotive and industrial applications, but has only recently been introduced into the medical device market. Two-shot ...

NORTHFIELD, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EPTAM Precision Solutions (“EPTAM” or the “Company”), a Frazier Healthcare Partners (“Frazier”) portfolio company, is ...

Because it is biocompatible and withstands high temperatures, and has a number of desirable properties such as flexibility, transparency, and compatibility with thin-wall molding, liquid silicone ...

MAPLE PLAIN, Minn. – March 19, 2014 – At BIOMEDevice Boston at the Boston Convention & Expo Center, March 26-27, 2014, Proto Labs will announce that their liquid silicone rubber injection molding ...

Trade fair exhibit features 14 Allrounder machines, advanced robotic systems, turnkey production cells, and ALS host computer ...