There are many defects that can occur during the injection molding process. One that can often occur for many reasons is a flow line. If you’re not familiar with flow lines, they can often appear like ripples in the plastic after the part is formed. They follow the flow of the molten resin from the…
Plastic injection molding is one of the frequently chosen manufacturing methods for new products. With thousands of resins available today, and more being created every year, it’s no mistake that injection molding should be a consideration for your next new or updated product idea. The plastic resin typically gets all the credit, but there is…
Plastic injection molding has become one of the leading manufacturing processes to produce everyday products. While you can find excellent quality and competitive prices in the stores, producing these items does have limited drawbacks concerning quality defects. They happen. There’s no way around them, but there are strategies and tips to avoid them. We’ve listed…
The food service industry has many ways to use plastics for cutlery, packaging, and containers. It’s safe, proven, and cost-effective to do the job. Are you adding a new product to your portfolio in the food service industry? You may want to add plastic molding as an option for your new product. These 5 benefits…
You have a new project coming up and want to get your latest invention to market in record time. You’re unsure if you want to fund the design and testing for a new resin specific for your project. Perhaps there is a popular resin currently available on the market that can meet all of your…
It seems almost every industry has embraced plastic injection molding. If you have flown on a commercial airplane, you’ve seen and touched many plastic injection molded parts. Trains? They have them. Cars and trucks are full of injection molded parts too. Most home appliances and smart devices such as laptops and cell phones are packed…
There is a point in any new project where the decision must be made of how to create the components and overall product. It usually involves a decision matrix weighing the function of the product, the environment it will be used in, the cost to make and retail the item at, and even more options….
You’ve heard the saying, “They don’t make things like they used to.” Or how about the one of new products just aren’t made to last very long anymore? In some cases that may be true, and others it could be that the wrong material was chosen. If you want durability and practicality, perhaps now is…
Single use plastic packaging gets a bad wrap. Or is that just another bad pun? When most think of a single use plastic, they imagine drink containers such as soda and water bottles. They are the model for convenience, but also the guilty party that gets shown as an example for pollution on land and…
Disposable products used to be the norm. Disposable batteries, disposable electronics, disposable single-use plastics, etc. That trend has slowly started to end, and most products are finding new ways to be reused, recycled, or transformed into another useable material. Plastics have long had multiple variations of recycling, but some still are not able to be…