Jul 10, 2017 | In the News
Plastics News promoted MTD’s latest MicroSeries this month as a proactive effort to help clients avoid design mistakes on very small plastic components. The aim is to manage a customer’s expectations on costs and delivery times. MTD has identified eight...
Jul 6, 2017 | Micro Insights
How are the main processes and strategies different for micro molds vs. macro molds? 1. Design Smaller runners, smaller gates, and because of the tiny details in the designs, most of the ejector pins are very small (sometimes as small as 0.010 inch). There also are...
Jun 29, 2017 | In the News
MTD proudly participated in the June issue of MPO that focused on “the Miniaturization of Molding”. The cover story titled Breaking the Mold examines the trends in micro molding with a very clear final message: “Polymers (also known as resins) are now able to last...
Jun 7, 2017 | Micro Insights
Nothing is more frustrating for micro part designers than to spend countless hours on a new drawing, only to get to the manufacturing phase and find out they need to make significant revisions or compromises.Here are some recommendations from MTD’s tooling department...
May 18, 2017 | Micro Insights
For micro medical components, there is a wide variety of materials to choose from. Most micromolding materials fall into two categories: thermoplastics and bioabsorbables. Thermoplastics are polymers that become pliable and moldable above a specific temperature and...
