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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 110-ton all-electric Arburg LSR injection molding machine running a 4-cavity nasal mask with robotic demold will be a machine demonstration highlight when Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (SESA) opens ...