Two-shot injection molding and the right materials put soft-touch grips and watertight seals on an expanding array of structural plastics. There are times when hard plastics need softer qualities.

A six-page mini-handbook, How to Optimize Adhesion in Hard-Soft Overmolding, features easy-to-follow tips on obtaining the best adhesion possible between hard substrates and soft, overmolded TPEs ...

Inject a substrate, insert it into a different tool and overmold—lather, rinse, repeat. For most of its 25 years, that’s how Innotech Precision Inc. in Toronto handled overmolding, using a transfer ...

Overmolding, an injection molding process, has drastically changed the aesthetics, design, and functionality of consumer products over the last decade. It is increasingly finding its way into the ...

Two days before Ken Shaner, VP of manufacturing engineering for Lear Corp. (Southfield, MI), stood before trade press and automotive OEM reps at Husky''s Detroit Technical Center to unveil a ...

Complexity and strength. Components like the B bracket for aircraft storage bins exhibit both high complexity and a requirement for high strength — a combination for which the hybrid overmolding ...