Oak Brook, Ill. — IMTECH attendees got a dose of hard metal at the inaugural IMTECH conference: precision side valve gating, conformal cooling and tooling for liquid silicone rubber. Donald Hickel, ...

Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) has become a material of choice for the medical device industry. Its biocompatibility, flexibility, chemical resistance, and ability to withstand sterilization make it ...

PLACENTIA, Calif.—George Kipe has been in the liquid silicone rubber game since its infancy. He attended seminars put on by General Electric Co. in the 1970s when the conglomerate's silicone unit was ...

Meeting customers' increasing demands for liquid silicone rubber (LSR) molds is key to the business success of M.R. Mold & Engineering. As a supplier of LSR molds and proprietary auxiliary equipment ...

Chinese injection molder Mehow Innovation Ltd. was firmly ensconced in the medical device manufacturing market when it decided it needed to branch out. It was 2011, and the Shenzhen-based firm was ...

Austria’s Elmet has introduced an all-electric SMARTshot E valve-gate cold runner system with servo-driven nozzle needles. The architecture reportedly maximizes flexibility and precision when ...

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 ...

EXTON, Pa.—Liquid silicone rubber, used in automotive, medical and other markets, is growing so quickly that molders are experiencing resin shortages, according to Rick Ziebell, vice president of ...