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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
A potential customer came to us needing prototype parts in a very short period of time in order to close a deal. They had been turned down by several of the large prototype molders for various reasons and were in jeapardy of loosing the business. International Plastic’s solution was to build prototype cavities for three… 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
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
One of the latest fads in business is “LEAN” everything. Most often the concept of lean gets implemented in the United States simply by having fewer people doing more work. It is a shame that this very powerful tool has been misunderstood and misused by so many American companies. This is reminiscent of the Just-… Read More