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Custom plastic parts are used by a variety of different industries.

Not so long ago,  as we covered previously, most of these parts were produced in house by their respective industries.

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Custom Plastic Parts in Industry

One of the biggest industries to use plastic parts is the automotive industry. Automotive plastic parts are a perfect example of a part that is mass produced and designed for a particular vehicle. Taking a look inside your car, you will notice that most of the parts are derived from some form of plastic . Although there has been a decrease in automotive injection molded plastics, they still remain widely used. The demand is expected to go higher, with the recovery of the motor vehicle industry.

There are several types of machinery used in plastic injection molding.   Plastic injection molding companies would not be able to provide plastic molding services without injection mold machines. Injection molding equipment comes in different sizes and varieties. Their used depends on the size of the product or part being made. Another factor that determines the mold press used is the amount of parts that need to be produced.
Since each project has different requirements, the injection molding machines have to be tooled and highly specialized. An injection molding machine has three parts: - Material hopper - The screw type plunger or the injection ram - Unit for heating Another commonly used machine during the plastic injection molding process is a 3-D. This is mostly used during the prototyping phase. The product is first designed using CAD software and then printed using a 3-D printer. As a result, the injection molding company will use this accurate prototype in creating the mold form.

Hiring Plastic Injection Molding Companies

Plastic injection molding companies exist to any company or business in creating products that are finished timely and of high quality. It still remains one of the cheapest options to outsource to a plastic injection molding company since the process of manufacturing is simplified. The majority of non-molding companies, mostly the smaller companies, do not possess their own injection molding machinery or personnel. This is due to the fact that they do not produce large volumes that would necessitate buying their own equipment. It is going to make the process easier when you outsource injection molding projects. Most importantly, it will also be cheaper in the long run.

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Need a Plastic Part? Hire a Plastic Injection Molding Company

Plastic injection molding is a type of manufacturing that uses plastic injection molds to produce products or parts on a large scale level.

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Plastic Injection Molding:  The Process

Plastic injection molding follows a manufacturing process.  It isn't just as simple as just producing a part from scratch.  At first, a prototype of the item to be produced is created and then cast into the mold.

After the custom plastic mold is made, a melted polymer material is then injected into the mold until it attains a solid state. On cooling, the product is ready to undergo more stages of production. Businesses, both large and small, hire injection molding companies so that their products can be produced on a large scale. These businesses find it more convenient to outsource their projects that involve injection molding. This has created the need and existence of injection molding companies. One of the most common methods used for the production of plastics for different needs is injection molding.

Plastic Injection Molding in the US

According to the US Bureau of Statistics, there was an increase in plastics transactions by 50 percent in 2015. Plastic injection molding remains a faster and cheaper method of producing plastics as compared to others for large scale production. If you want production of plastics for small projects, other molding methods may be better. There are numerous industries, businesses, and companies that use the services of plastic injection companies regularly. These include: - Plastic packaging – there has been an exponential growth in the plastic packaging industry since its introduction in the 1950s. in the previous year, there has been an increase in plastic packaging production by 47 percent. - Medical equipment – the medical industry has relied on injection molded plastics for a long time. Injection molded plastics became popular in the medical industry after the production companies started using the right material to produce plastics meant for the medical industry. In the previous year, there has been a demand in medical plastics by almost 10 percent. - Industrial parts – it has been a common practice to create plastics for industrial projects for many years. With the existence of different varieties of plastic polymers, uses of injection molded plastics are vast in the industrial market. This is the reason why there has been a rise in plastic industrial parts transactions by 30 percent.

Whether it is the medical field, automotive, promotional or whatever field, sooner or later a lot of different industries need plastic parts.  For some industries, it's obviously easier to produce these parts in house.  For others, it is far more convenient and cheaper to contact a plastics manufacturing company instead.

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