Category: Injection Molding

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...

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...

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...