Reliant Expands Capacity With Advanced New Molding Machines
The backbone of plastics production is the injection molding machine. Every year, machines worldwide shape and eject billions of components that flow into every industry.…
Plastic Injection Molding for the Defense Industry
Plastics play a considerable role in manufacturing products and assemblies, but few sectors have as many mission-critical plastic components as the defense industry. From the…
How Injection Molding Helps Drive the Electric Vehicle Industry
After a slow start and a general reluctance among established automakers to embrace electric vehicles, the industry has kicked into high gear. No longer is…
How Plastic Injection Molding Is Helping the Agriculture Industry
Plastic injection molding is a historic manufacturing process for the production of plastic parts. The credit for inventing this process goes to John Wesley Hyatt,…
Injection Molding Tolerances: Factors & Optimizations
Plastic injection molding is one of the most popular manufacturing methods for a vast range of parts. With components flowing into assemblies and products across…
Guide to Engineering Plastics & Common Applications
Look around the room — how many of the items you can see within plain view have plastic as part of their construction, in whole…
The Ins and Outs of Injection Molding for Plastic Telecommunication Parts
The telecommunication industry is a massive economic sector worth tens of billions of dollars. This space encompasses everything from the compact mobile phone in your…
Why Are More Companies Making the Metal-to-Plastic Transition?
Plastic as a manufacturing material has been around for decades, so one might assume that the industry lacks ongoing innovation. But nothing could be further…
Aerospace Plastic Injection Molding: Materials and Advantages
When the Wright brothers built the first flying machine, they used wood and fabric as their primary aircraft materials. Though these materials were an excellent starting point, their weight and flammability weren’t ideal. The search for better aerospace materials has continued ever since.
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Manufacturing Pet Safe Products with Plastic Injection Molding
With annual sales in the tens of billions of dollars, the pet product industry is massive and growing steadily. The value of the market—and the sheer number of Americans who have pets—mean significant opportunities for profitable growth.
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