One of the U.S. Army’s goals is to reduce the weight of equipment soldiers must carry by about 25%. One method of shedding some weight could entail replacing aluminum used on communication gear with ...

It was back in 2009 that we first heard about Karbon Kinetics Ltd's Gocycle, an e-bike with a seamless injection-molded magnesium alloy frame and an enclosed chain-drive. Other models followed, and ...

Magnesium injection molding (MAG) shapes parts out of magnesium alloy in a semifluid state, without the need of binders, resins, or sintering. This gives the relatively new technique an ...

Magnesium injection molding will be a big winner as auto OEMs lighten vehicles. The number of pounds of magnesium in cars remains small, about 10 pounds on average. But that could easily quadruple ...

An MCAM customer wanted to replace metal injection molded (MIM) magnesium with a composite on a performance mountain bike’s suspension elements with the goals of reducing mass and avoiding processing ...

An injection molded, threaded cap made from a 3D-printed metal mold insert, right, created on a Mantle P-200 machine. Within reach of you right now are probably five to 10 plastic products, or parts ...

About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...