An injection molding apparatus comprising: a gate component defining at least a portion of a mold cavity, the gate component having a draw axis (A D) and a recess extending into the gate component towards the draw axis (A D), the recess including an alignment bore and terminating at a mold gate leading to the mold cavity, the mold gate having a gate axis (A G) intersecting the draw axis (A D) at an acute angle (α); a nozzle laterally offset to a side of the gate component, the nozzle having a melt channel for receiving a molding material from a source, the melt channel including lateral channel portion extending towards an outward facing sidewall of the nozzle and terminating at a nozzle outlet; and a nozzle tip coupled to the nozzle at an acute angle (α) to the draw axis (A D), the nozzle tip received in the recess in the gate component, the nozzle tip including an inner tip component defining at least in part a tip channel in fluid communication with the nozzle outlet and the mold cavity and an outer tip component surrounding the inner tip component and having an outer alignment surface mating with the alignment bore of the recess; wherein the inner tip component having an upstream end abutting the nozzle, a downstream end and a conical portion having an apex at the downstream end, and wherein the alignment bore, the circumferential outer surface of the outer tip component and the mold gate are concentric, characterized in that the conical portion of the inner tip component having a cone axis (A C) that is misaligned with the gate axis (A G), wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is rotatably fixed relative to the inner tip component and the angular position of the outer tip component is rotatably fixed relative to the alignment bore wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is fixed relative to the inner tip component by a keyed joint between the outer tip component and the inner tip component and the outer tip component having a non-circular shaped socket mating with a complementary non-circular shaped plug on a body portion of the inner tip component, or wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is fixed relative to the alignment bore by a keyed joint between the outer tip component and the gate component, and the outer tip component having a non-circular shaped socket mating with a complementary non-circular shaped socket in the gate component. a gate component defining at least a portion of a mold cavity, the gate component having a draw axis (A D) and a recess extending into the gate component towards the draw axis (A D), the recess including an alignment bore and terminating at a mold gate leading to the mold cavity, the mold gate having a gate axis (A G) intersecting the draw axis (A D) at an acute angle (α); a nozzle laterally offset to a side of the gate component, the nozzle having a melt channel for receiving a molding material from a source, the melt channel including lateral channel portion extending towards an outward facing sidewall of the nozzle and terminating at a nozzle outlet; and a nozzle tip coupled to the nozzle at an acute angle (α) to the draw axis (A D), the nozzle tip received in the recess in the gate component, the nozzle tip including an inner tip component defining at least in part a tip channel in fluid communication with the nozzle outlet and the mold cavity and an outer tip component surrounding the inner tip component and having an outer alignment surface mating with the alignment bore of the recess; wherein the inner tip component having an upstream end abutting the nozzle, a downstream end and a conical portion having an apex at the downstream end, and wherein the alignment bore, the circumferential outer surface of the outer tip component and the mold gate are concentric, characterized in that the conical portion of the inner tip component having a cone axis (A C) that is misaligned with the gate axis (A G), wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is rotatably fixed relative to the inner tip component and the angular position of the outer tip component is rotatably fixed relative to the alignment bore wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is fixed relative to the inner tip component by a keyed joint between the outer tip component and the inner tip component and the outer tip component having a non-circular shaped socket mating with a complementary non-circular shaped plug on a body portion of the inner tip component, or wherein the angular position of the outer tip component is fixed relative to the alignment bore by a keyed joint between the outer tip component and the gate component, and the outer tip component having a non-circular shaped socket mating with a complementary non-circular shaped socket in the gate component.