Molds, mold assemblies and stack components

An injection mold comprising:

• a core plate assembly, a cavity plate assembly and a stripper plate assembly arranged between the core and cavity plate assemblies;
• a plurality of mold stacks, each of which includes a core insert, a cavity insert and a split mold insert pair arranged therebetween;
• the core plate assembly including a core plate having a plurality of the core inserts mounted thereon;
• the stripper plate assembly including a stripper plate with a bearing surface upon which a plurality of slide pairs are slidably supported, each slide pair being configured to retain a subset of the split mold inserts thereon;
• the cavity plate assembly including a cavity plate having a plurality of the cavity inserts mounted thereon;
• wherein the mold comprises a molding configuration in which the mold stacks are closed to define molding cavities and the stack height is configured such that a clamping load applied, in use, to urge the core plate toward the cavity plate is directed substantially entirely through the mold stacks;
• wherein the distance between the split mold inserts and the core plate, when the mold is in the molding configuration, is greater than the thickness of the stripper plate assembly received therebetween, thereby to prevent the clamping load from being directed through the stripper plate assembly.