The bad news: The Mold-A-Rama machines are going to be removed. The zoo’s four coin-operated automated plastic toy factories, the only public Mold-A-Rama machines in the state, have been a longtime ...

Injection molded plastics have revolutionized design, innovation, and manufacturing in the 20th century. Before 1950, most products were manufactured in stamped steel, die-cast aluminum, zinc, and ...

“Jack put the coins in and I remember standing with him at the machine saying, ‘Look at how f---king cool this is! Look at those dials moving! This is so bad--s!’” How often do you hear a story about ...

Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

Whenever Lydia Peñuelaz visits the San Antonio Zoo, the Alamo City native simply must bring home a piece of the past — specifically a colorful figurine from one of the zoo’s original Mold-A-Rama ...

Building custom parts often means learning new skills or getting out of your comfort zone, especially if you want to create something that is really cool. While most hot rodders can fabricate brackets ...

Injection molding is usually focused on high-volume production, but that doesn’t always need to be the case. The Recycled Plastic Skateboard Deck project centers on the use of injection molding for a ...