Thermoforming and Injection Molding Blog

Should You Choose Fiberglass or Thermoformed Plastic for Your Products?

When it comes to creating, designing, and manufacturing custom plastics, there are several variables to consider. Choosing whether thermoforming or injection molding is right or blow molding or injection molding...

Improving Efficiency in Your Supply Chain

Many of our topics these past few months have been associated with COVID-19, whether it's how plastics are essential in the fight against disease or how your packaging can stand...

How Plastics Are Key to Fighting COVID-19

COVID-19 continues to sweep through the United States and across the world. At the time of writing this, there have been over six million reported cases just in the US,...

What Is BPA and Is It Dangerous in Manufacturing?

At our injection molding company in North Carolina, we work with a multitude of different thermoplastic materials. On top of that, we use coatings, additives, fillers, and reinforcing agents to...

Increasing the Life Span of Plastics with Antioxidants

One of the greatest benefits to using plastics is their longevity. However, when certain polymers are placed in adverse conditions, like extreme heat or exposure to certain chemicals, they can...

Why Choose Acrylic Over Glass in Manufacturing?

Acrylic or glass? That's the questions manufacturers and designers ask across a variety of industries, including those that make furniture, vehicles, medical supplies, and farm and recreation equipment. When a...

What Are Plasticizers and What Do They Do?

At our injection molding and thermoforming company, we often use additives in thermoplastic materials to get the exact results our customers need. One type of additive that is used most...

Is Your Packaging Designed for E-commerce?

As of June 2020, retail sales are down 10 percent for the year, but e-commerce sales were up almost 20 percent. Of course, much of that is due to COVID-19...

Innovations in Photodegrading Polymers

Plastics improve our quality of life in countless ways - making cars more fuel efficient, medical supplies more durable, and household goods more affordable. While the benefits are extensive, we'd...

Why the Medical Industry is Choosing Plastic over Metal

For decades, metal was the primary source of medical devices and tools world wide, but over the past few years, plastics have become the preferred material. From prosthetic limbs and...