Category: Injection Molding

Using PVC in Medical Supplies and Applications

Plastics are improving medical equipment and applications in limitless ways, from improving sterility and hygiene in medical settings to making screening and treatment more widely accessible and affordable. Polyvinyl chloride,...

Using Plastics in Automobile Powertrain Manufacturing

About 50 percent of the materials making up the average vehicle are a type of plastic. While this includes the dashboards and console as well as the tubs used to...

A Guide to Injection Molding Tooling

Just like how the tooling used in thermoforming determines the success of the project, the same is true for injection molding. To achieve accuracy and precision, both to the design...

What Is Two Shot Injection Molding?

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...

Thermoplastics in Dentistry

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...

Benefits of Antimicrobial Plastics

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...

What Is Micro Molding?

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...

Reaction Injection Molding vs Plastic Injection Molding

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...

Choosing the Right Injection Molding Company

Tips for Finding the Best Injection Molding Company for Your Business If you use injection molded components in your company, and you rely on an injection molding company to design,...

Blow Molding or Injection Molding: Which Method Is Best?

Manufacturing plastics can be done in a variety of ways, but choosing the right method can be difficult. While you want to have a product made quickly and affordably, you...