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7 Common Plastic Injection Mold Tooling Development, Approval, & Maintenance Pitfalls [Podcast]

April 9, 2021

7 Common Plastic Injection Mold Tooling Development, Approval, & Maintenance Pitfalls [Podcast]

Tooling is a large investment for any manufacturer, so what do we need to be wary of..? Andy Bartlett, an experienced British product designer who has 25 years of experience in product design, development, and working with manufacturers in China, returns to join us again on the podcast for a lively discussion about the kinds of issues and common pitfalls that can come up when developing, approving, and maintaining tooling for your plastic injection molded products. You'll learn why supplier … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tooling Tagged With: injection molding, mold fabrication, molds, plastic injection molding, plastic parts, podcast, tooling, tooling approval, tooling development, tooling fabrication, tooling maintenance

How To Test Plastic Material Properties [Videos]

July 4, 2019

How To Test Plastic Material Properties

I recently published a list of videos on the injection molding process, and importers of hard goods made from plastics (or at least using plastic components) also need to know how to test plastic material properties. Why is plastic testing important? We'll explore it in this post and leave you better equipped to manage your supply chain. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: hard goods, plastic, plastic components, plastic goods, plastic parts, polymers, testing plastic, thermoplastics

All about Plastic Injection Molding and Thermoplastics [Videos]

June 20, 2019

All about Plastic Injection Molding and Thermoplastics [Videos]

Do some of your products include plastic parts? If you purchase hard goods, that's probably the case. When writing a guide about plastics manufacturing last month, and I made a list of products that are made in China and incorporate thermoplastics. Here are a few: The casing of many electrical appliances and electronic products Many vehicle parts (e.g. instrument panels in PVC, a dashboard in ABS, bumpers in PP, cams in PA, buttons in PS…) Many construction parts (e.g. countertops, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: plastic, plastic injection molding, plastic parts, thermoplastics


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