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I was talking to the engineering manager at a good customer and he told me they were having huge quality and warranty issues with a zinc diecast gear they had been using. I told him of the success we had just had with another customer converting an assembly of components into a single high strength… Read More
International Plastics specializes in the molding of all engineering grades of plastic. Custom formulated materials can be a very cost effective way of solving performance problems that stock materials just can not handle. When done properly metal to plastic conversions can save you company millions in warranty claims, reduced assembly and eliminating costly machining. Read More
One of the least understood elements in mold design is runner sizing. The equations that govern plastic flow are nearly unsolvable in their classical form. However with the aid of computers, sophisticated computational methods, this task can be accomplished quickly and quite accurately. While this software (Moldflow™) costs a small fortune to acquire and the… Read More
Several years ago a customer transferred an old single cavity mold to our facility. The part was a very simple rectangular ring. It had two sub-gates, one at each end of the part on the short side of the rectangle. The material was glass filled and made a very strong part. We made our first… Read More