When thermoforming plastics, there are multiple variables that need to be in place to get the desired finished result. It's essential that the part is not only accurate to the...
Choosing Male or Female Tooling in Thermoforming When designing tooling for vacuum-formed plastic parts, components, or products, one of the first decisions is whether to fabricate a male or female...
If your product design requires complicated components and mixed materials, you may be concerned about the multi-step manufacturing and assembly, not only the costs and time involved, but also whether...
Not every order for custom plastics is going to require 100,000 identical components. In fact, smaller orders for just a few thousand pieces are common, especially if you want to...
While we often discuss how medical injection molding and thermoforming allow for greater innovation and lower costs, we haven’t spent much time looking specifically at thermoplastics in dentistry. From improving...
For years, antimicrobial plastics were only seen in healthcare settings where the need to reduce surface bacteria and germs is a necessity. However, following 2020, we've seen a growing push...
When most people think of telecommunications, they think of long lines of code or bundles of wires. While all that is definitely important, we know it’s the hardware that makes...
When you need highly intricate, detailed plastic components that measure only a few millimeters across, traditional injection molding methods may not be the right option. Instead, to achieve the precision...
For large quantities of custom plastics, injection molding is one of the most common methods of manufacturing. There are two primary types - reaction injection molding (RIM) and plastic injection...
Manufacturing custom plastics isn't just about molding it into a specific shape, though that's a big part of it, of course. It's also about making sure the plastic has the...