by Darin Sjogren | Apr 9, 2018 | Injection Molding, Manufacturing Step By Step, Tooling
Hiring a plastic mold maker and having tools made is a lot less scary when you start with the right information. Molds can be very complex and expensive. After the tools are produced, they are basically set in stone—or steel, as the case may be. They have been...
by Jason Post | Feb 20, 2018 | Injection Molding
The Steel of Plastics: Polycarbonate In this installment of our plastics series, we discuss polycarbonate, or PC. Although the thermoplastics we’ve covered to this point have their gifts and talents, you’re not likely to hear “Polyethylene saved my life!”...
by Jenifer Wolfe | Jan 25, 2018 | Injection Molding
How ABS Plastic Clawed Its Way to World Domination Worlds have been built with ABS plastic. As the material for most LEGO bricks and accessories, ABS is perhaps the most common “building” material in the known universe. The company’s splashy...
by Jason Post | Jan 22, 2018 | Injection Molding
Nylon: A Material with Legs In a time when it was still scandalous for women to wear pants and bare legs were unthinkable,nylon came to the rescue as an alternative to silk and woolens. Developed by DuPont in the mid-1930s and exhibited at the New York World’s...
by Jenifer Wolfe | Jan 14, 2018 | Injection Molding
Polyethylene: Hula Hoops and Honey Bears For the product of a lab accident, polyethylene has gone on to stellar success. It’s currently starring in this installment of our plastics series. PE history One day in 1898, German chemist Hans von Plechmann was heating...
by Jason Post | Jan 12, 2018 | Injection Molding
Here’s your State of the Plastics Market for January 2018 and what to expect from your plastic suppliers. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the price for all grades of PP are shooting through the roof right now, and it has seemed to have all happened in...
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