Students use the facility at Bechtel center for various research projects, one such student from the school of chemical engineering used the VF4 CNC milling machine in the manufacturing lab to cut 5 ...

[JohnSL] and his friend both have injection molding machines. They decided to compare the aluminum molds they usually use with some 3D printed molds created with a resin printer. They used two ...

Controlling the shape of tiny, inorganic structures could help us build light harvesting devices and other nanophotonic equipment. Previous methods for making them were limited in terms of controlling ...

With the economic crunch hitting manufacturing, aluminum molds are looking more attractive. But what about tooling life? There might be an answer. Aluminum molds have always been a way to get a larger ...

Uncertainty and pressure are weighing heavily on the U.S. mold making industry with 25 percent tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum scheduled to go into effect March 12. The U.S. imports about a ...

Aluminum injection molds used to be thought ideal only for low-volume applications using commodity materials. That is changing as OEMs look more closely at tooling costs and cycle times to reduce ...

Thousands of different products require a mold in order to be manufactured. Canoes are made from a mold, lawn ornaments are made from a mold, many car body parts are made from a mold, and these are ...