One of the principal credits of plastics materials is their capacity to be shaped into a completed segment with no requirement for resulting work to be done. Convoluted shapes, openings and undercut ...

AS THE PRICE OF METALS CONTINUES TO RISE, MORE AND MORE product designers are looking for ways to replace machined metal parts with plastic parts, and machine shops are getting more opportunities to ...

A flow cell with a 200-μm square flow channel machined from acrylic plastic. Although industry practices and guidelines for machining metals are well published and have been substantiated over time, ...

For Applied Engineering Plastics, machine tools, such as the Bridgeport XR 760, fulfill the requirements of high spindle speeds, fourth axis capability, tool rigidity, and high-pressure ...

This free HDPE technical resource provides machinists with the exact feeds, speeds, and tooling strategies needed to process the plastic flawlessly. The plastics industry has lacked a single, ...

Necessity may indeed be the mother of invention, but that still leaves the inventor, not to mention the designer, the developer, and the manufacturer, in need of a lot of help. More and more, three ...