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Plastic injection mould tooling: best tool material – Steel Vs Aluminium

Mould Tools Plastic Injection Moulding Tooling

For production, fully hardened steel tooling is the industry standard for the injection moulding process, and normally comes with a 1 million shot warranty...

How to design for injection moulding – Top 5 Tips

Design for Injection Moulding Plastic Injection Moulding Prototyping

The injection moulding process can often be an afterthought when it comes to designing parts. To ensure you don’t unnecessarily delay your next project, here ...

Engineering bioplastics for injection moulding

Basics of Moulding Plastic Injection Moulding

Plastics play a crucial role in our lives. They appear in almost everything we use, from our cars, computers and televisions, to food packaging, toys ...

Specialised materials for injection moulding offer unique properties

Basics of Moulding Plastic Injection Moulding

As injection mould manufacturing processes have evolved, so too has the development of specialised technical engineering materials.

Additive Manufacturing and Conformal Cooling

Additive manufacturing, conformal cooling and design flexibility

Conformal Cooling Metal Additive Manufacturing Rapid Production

The advent of additive manufacturing has given engineers across industry new and exciting ways of designing and manufacturing components and finished parts. In the field ...

Regular and Conformal cooling: a side by side comparison

3D Printing Conformal Cooling Metal Additive Manufacturing

The Plazology team and OGM analysed the performance of mould inserts using the Moldex3D simulation system, then verified its findings with physical mould trials using ...

Is reshoring the future for plastic injection moulding?

Plastic Injection Manufacturing Plastic Injection Moulding Company UK Plastic Injection Moulders

Following the 2016 referendum result, when the UK voted to leave the European Union, the value of the Pound against other leading currencies fell by ...

A pragmatic approach to plastic injection mould tooling

Basics of Moulding Plastic Injection Moulding Tooling

By combining our direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) and CNC machining into a single production system, we’ve developed a range of innovative techniques for the manufacture of plastic injection mould tooling. Using this hybrid manufacturing system, ...