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 ...

Rising demand for microscopic silicone components in medical technology, automobile electronics, and other advanced industries is driving significant expansion in precision micro molding capabilities, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A precision assembly is helping ease incontinence and other medical problems caused by a variety of gynecologic conditions, including prolapse. Engineers at MedPlast (Elkhorn, WI) developed a new ...

New York — In some ways, the process of micromolding is a contradiction. As medical and health care markets demand smaller and more precisely designed components, the micromolding industry grows in ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLYMOUTH, MN - October 15, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - In silicone foam molding, formulation decisions can change how a ...

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 ...

A silicone injection molding process developed by Cicoil Corp. embeds wires, coax, fiber optics, and even piping into a single highly flexible flat cable for industrial applications. Howard Lind from ...

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 ...