Saving Time With Plastic Injection Molding

For decades, many hundreds of thousands of companies rely on manufacturing technology to help them produce, en masse, all the pieces and parts that go in to the manufacture of their product. Many millions of these parts are created through a process known as plastic injection molding.

Now that we know what plastic injection molding is, there are steps you can take to determine if making the investment in the machinery is right for you and your company. In order to do this, you must ask yourself some serious questions.

This is beneficial if there is an order for, say, 500,000 beige infant doll hands. Because the process of plastic injection molding involves forcing hot, melted plastic in to a metal mold, coloring agents can be added to the plastic pre-production in order to create the desired color palette for the product, in this case, beige.

Too, if the product you are making needs to be a specific color, the ability to add dye to the melted plastic is quite beneficial. This ensures invariant color blends throughout the product, thus meeting all required specifications.

Overall, the process of plastic injection molding goes through 6 phases from beginning to end. First the molds are clamped in to place for production, then the plastic pellets are loaded in to the top of the machine so they may be melted in a super-heated condition -- this is where any dye may be added to the process, once the plastic has been melted it is then injected in to the molds.

Keep in mind though, the initial investment in plastic injection molding machinery can be costly considering you must have the product molds made for each product you intend to produce -- these are not cheap, but if you are currently using outdated technology to produce your plastic products, then the investment is well worth considering once you realize the true cost-benefit potential.