PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING INVENTED IN 19TH CENTURY? YEP! 1868, to be precise. American inventor John W. Hyatt patented a process that produced a product he called “celluloid” (not what later would eventually become movie film) which he used as a replacement for ivory in billiard balls and piano keys, among other things. Although an Englishman…
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Time was when the word “plastics” conjured up images of islands of floating polyurethane plastic bottles in an otherwise beautiful blue placid sea. Worse yet, were actual photographs of bird and sea life chocking to death from plastic ring carriers. That was then. Today, many industry resin producers, as well as plastic injection molders, are…
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Practically from its inception as a manufacturing process in the late 19th century, plastic injection molding has been utilized to produce an ever-widening array of products, in a myriad of industries. For the purposes of this blog post, we’re just going to look at three industries which have benefited greatly from this most malleable of…
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The entire industrial base of this country is stepping up to meet the corona virus pandemic: car companies are making medical ventilators, clothing manufacturers are turning out surgical masks, and multinational beer companies are brewing hand sanitizer. Now the plastic injection molding medical parts industry is stepping up, although a lot of the prototyping is…
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Let’s cut to the chase: medical-quality polymers are increasingly becoming the “go-to” material for a broad range of surgical devices. In some cases, the innate mechanical attributes of medical-grade polymers completely supplant metal from the surgical device design. In other applications, plastic and metal components are used together to create a device with the best…
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Hungry for good news about the growth of the rigid plastic food packaging market? The global rigid plastic packaging market (which includes food packaging) was valued at $216 billion in 2018, and is projected to reach $340 billion by 2026. That translates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6% from 2019 to 2026….
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While some in our industry decry growing consumer and business demand for recycled and bio-degradable plastics, there is at least one group of folks who are happy about it: plastic injection molding machinery manufacturers. Could be because global market demand for plastics processing machinery is expected to reach $24.3 billion by 2025. Of course, the…
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Like true romance, there’s a whole host of variables that have to be just-so in the plastic injection molding process if the marriage of resin to mold is going to birth a new plastic part. It’s oh-so-easy for something – anything – to go awry and ruin the part. But again, just like in romance,…
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Despite a few detours in the automotive market, the future for plastic injection molded car parts is quite rosy, according to industry analysts. Here are the “signs” that plastic automotive components are moving into the fast lane: Overall, the global plastic injection molding market is expected to grow to $345 billion by 2024. And the…
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Choosing the correct medical-grade plastic for a medical device or component can be literally a “life or death” decision. Even if not that dire, selecting, then plastic-injection-molding a device that is often surgically-implanted in a human body, is qualitatively different than manufacturing a plastic toy or soda bottle cap! Why are plastic polymers regarded so…
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