A new invention from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) could soon help manufacturers ...

Multi-stage cold forging processes are used for the mass production of particularly resistant metal products of different level of geometrical complexity. These processes also allow a high degree of ...

Aluminium extrusion encompasses a variety of techniques in which a heated billet is forced through a shaped die to produce profiles with uniform cross-sections. Key process variants include direct and ...

Editor?s note: The author, Donald E. De Laney, a consultant in polymer process rheology, worked with GE for 17 years and has worked with Dynisco over the past eight years. The plastics compounding and ...

Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...

While countless tubes are extruded or injection molded each year, these manufacturing techniques are neither the most optimal nor the most cost-effective methods available to medical device ...