The criteria for selecting a Liquid Silicone Rubber injection molding machine are very similar to selecting a machine for standard thermoplastic injection molding, with some key differences. Let’s ...

Sil-Pro began molding liquid silicone rubber (LSR) in 1998 and since has grown into mold design and building, assembly, and even into extruding a variety of silicone tubing and profiles. The company ...

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 ...

At NPE2018, Boy Machines Inc. will present six of its small-tonnage injection molding machines at Booth W2503, right at the entrance to the West Hall. Visitors will get a good overview of the entire ...

Injection molding is the obvious onward step from 3D printing when the making of a few plastic parts becomes their series manufacture. The problem with injection molding is though, that making a mold ...

WHITEWATER, Wis.—Sim Lim Technic L.L.C., an injection molder specializing in technical parts made from liquid silicone rubber, recently expanded its molding capacity with the installation of a new ...

Known for its biocompatibility, range of flexibility and hardness, high temperature tolerance, and ability to be processed with minor machine modifications, silicone, or liquid silicone rubber (LSR), ...

Isolde Boettger said she and Michael Maloney started their silicone molding business in Canada 16 years ago with two machines “and a lot of enthusiasm.” Silcotech Carolina, the company’s first U.S.

Injection molding machines are able to form very detailed plastic parts, simply by squirting plastic into a mold. 3D printers squirt plastic. Why no one thought of using a 3D printer extruder to push ...

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. 7:34 A silicone ...