Plastic injection mould tooling: best tool material – Steel Vs Aluminium
For production, fully hardened steel tooling is the industry standard for the injection moulding process, and normally comes with a 1 million shot warranty…
For production, fully hardened steel tooling is the industry standard for the injection moulding process, and normally comes with a 1 million shot warranty…
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 are our top five tips…
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, we can offer: The ability to reduce lead times for plastic injection mould tooling, to just a few weeks Special tool inserts that eliminate the problems of gas traps in plastic injection …
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Plastic injection moulding is an established and widely used manufacturing process. Here are just 4 of the major advantages of plastic injection moulding.
Are you experiencing defects with your injection moulded parts? Here are 5 of the most common defects found during the injection moulding operation.
But before we answer that question, let’s take a broader look at the industrial uses of plastic injection moulding. How it has become such an important tool in the manufacture of an extraordinarily wide range of components, many of which we are likely to encounter in our everyday lives. Plastic injection moulding is a universal …
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When the time comes to designing a new product, or redesigning an existing one, it’s always important to select the best manufacturing method. As evidenced by the proliferation in use of plastic parts in products in almost every walk of life in the last 50 years, injection moulding has become the most popular method of …