Design Monitoring

In Europe, a trio of companies with different specialties have collectively developed a new molding capability. Germany's Bond Laminates (laminates) and Kurz (stamping) partnered with Engel Austria (injection molding) to create an as-yet-unnamed production method that combines hybrid molding, a/k/a overmolding, with the application of foil and lacquer--all in a single shot. Their hybrid molding technique sounds common enough: A sheet of Tepex (Bond Laminates' branded carbon fiber variant)…