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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
Jack McGuinn, Senior Editor of Power Transmission Engineering, discusses the benefis of metal to plastic conversion, and how International Plastics can help with your company's needs. 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
Millions of plastic components are machined. If the annual volume is high enough, converting it to a molded part could be of advantage. With machining, you pay for the full rod or sheet, and then machine a fair amount of the plastic onto the floor as waste. Extruded sheet and rod is usually more expensive… Read More