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Steps to Earning the Best Plastic Injection Molding ROI

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Companies that utilize plastic injection molding must balance several factors of the manufacturing and sales process to determine the best opportunity to recover their investment and become profitable. While there’s no right investment and sales quantity that suits every business, the principles of achieving a high return on investment (ROI) are similar to most other manufacturing techniques. It takes some careful cost analysis to earn the best plastic injection ROI, so let’s review some of the basics.

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Achieving Success with Multi-Material Plastic Injection Molding

Multiple screw drivers lined up on a wooden table with the color scheme of a rainbow, meant to display multi-material plastic injection molding.

While thermoplastics have revolutionized manufacturing, companies sometimes need to incorporate other materials into their product design. That’s where multi-material injection molding comes into play. This versatile solution helps injection molding manufacturers produce complex components and parts while incorporating metals or other non-plastics into the final product. It’s the perfect way to simplify assembly and enhance product performance, but it requires the expertise of an experienced manufacturer. Let’s review how to achieve success with multi-material plastic injection molding.

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How to Prevent Flow and Knit Lines in Plastic Injection Molding

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While plastic injection molding has made leaps and bounds over the years, it’s still not yet an exact science. There is a lot that can go wrong while getting your product ready for market. One such defect that can affect a part is flow and kit lines. Fortunately, by entrusting your project to an experienced manufacturer, some adjustments can be made to both the injection molding process and the tooling that can help avoid these defects. Let’s review some methods to prevent flow and knit lines in plastic injection molding.

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How to Calculate Your Plastic Injection Molding Project Lead Time

A cardboard box full of white, plastic electrical boxes created using plastic injection molding.

Lead time is a significant factor in any type of manufacturing. It’s important for companies relying on plastic injection molding to calculate the time allotted from a project’s conception to its completion, so they can estimate when they can release their product to market. Seeing as there are several details that factor into injection molding lead times, such as the design and complexity of a mold, there is no one answer to how long a project will take. Since it can prove a difficult task, let’s review how you can calculate your plastic injection molding project lead time.

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How Plastic Injection Molding Revolutionized the Food and Beverage Industry

Food production workers operating a chicken cutlet conveyor belt making use of plastic injection molded parts.

When visiting the market, you can trust plastic containers to keep the shelves stocked with fresh foods. Not only do plastics preserve food for consumption, but they’re also used in the production process. What’s important to understand about these plastics is that they’re comprised of food-grade variants, making them safe for use in the industry. So much of what goes into making food available to the public relies on plastic injection molding. If you’re looking to use food-safe plastics for your next project, you may want to learn how plastic injection molding revolutionized the food and beverage industry.

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How to Join Custom Plastic Injection Molded Components

A close up of a black spare car part that joins customer plastic injection molded components with metal components.

Plastic injection molding can be used to create a singular product, but most of the time, the process is used to create a part used in a bigger, more complex project. There are a variety of ways injection molded parts can be combined to make a whole. The method of assembly used to combine the plastic part with the final product varies depending on the required strength and whether it will need to be disassembled at any point. Let’s take a look at the different ways to join custom plastic injection molded parts and what method is best suited for your project.

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