More and more molders are turning to what has become known as "scientific molding" in an effort to systematize their injection molding processes, make them more controllable and make them easily repeatable. As we mention on this site and in…
Having a successful plastics training program in your company ultimately comes down to making sure you do about 3 things right. Many (actually most) of the injection molding, extrusion, blow molding companies we talk to are concerned not about whether…
While the main focus of our “From The Plastics Point of View” blog posts have been related to problems directly caused by the 4 primary processing variables – heat, pressure, flow and cooling, there are a few injection molded part…
We had a conference call recently with a major injection molding company, one of the largest in the country. The purpose of the call was to answer their questions about what injection molding training they needed for various levels of…
Another post on injection molding part defects and how the plastic would describe them. This time we’re going to take a look at Splay. Splay is sometimes also called “silver streaks” because of the appearance of silvery scratches across the…