Star Rapid’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing. Enjoy!
How Gate Design Affects Your Plastic Parts
The runner and gate system used in plastic injection molding is responsible for directing molten plastic from the nozzle of the molding machine into the cavity of the tool. The gate architecture and its location affects cycle times, tooling costs, lead times, the...
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Star Receives Engineering Award from BUILD Magazine
With a team of dedicated engineers, machinists, designers and support staff, we’re honored to be named, along with our client Gate Labs, a winner of the BUILD Magazine Engineering Excellence Awards. The Engineering Excellence Awards 2017 recognizes various engineering...
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Making and Measuring Surface Textures in Injection Molding
All plastic injection molded parts have a surface texture created by the tools that made them. To get the surface finish that you want it’s necessary for you to understand how we make and measure them in our inspection department. At Star Rapid, we follow the...
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IDEA Design Winners Show Product Development Story
Be inspired by some of our favorite winners from the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) of 2017. See how these designers gathered essential information, iterated potential solutions and ultimately produced working prototypes. Making a great idea come to life...
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Star Rapid Partners With German Tool Supplier Guhring
At Star, we are always looking for ways to improve speed and quality. One way we’ve done this is by partnering with the tool company Guhring to ensure that we provide only the finest tools when making CNC machined parts and rapid prototypes. Guhring is a German...
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What is Powder Bed Fusion for Metal 3D Printing?
There are so many new and emerging technologies being developed for metal 3D printing that it can be hard to keep up with a dizzying array of acronyms, machines and applications. One of the most common types of metal 3D printing being used at the moment is powder bed...
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The Story of the Blackest Color Ever Made
Here we look at the nature of color transmission and absorption. Why is this important for new product design and development? Understanding how light interacts with a surface will help you to fine tune your product’s look to achieve exactly the effect you want. And...
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Message From CEO – Focus on Speed in 2018
On behalf of the entire team at Star Rapid I’d like to wish the happiest of the new year to our valued friends and partners. Thank you all for being part of our continuing story. As you know Star Rapid went through a lot of changes in 2017. Let’s look at what we’ve...
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