Plastic
injection moulding process has become widely popular for manufacturing parts and components from
plastic trinkets and toys to automotive parts, bottles, containers to cell
phone cases. In fact, many of the products that we use in our daily lives are
made using this molding technique. But, why do manufacturers prefer this
molding technique for making plastic items? The answer is that this technique
comes with various benefits. Let’s check out some from its long list of
benefits.
1. Suitable for Producing Intricate and Precision Products
One
of the major benefits of plastic injection moulding technique is that you can
easily design plastic intricate and precision parts and components. When
compared to other techniques, you will find that injection moulding allows introducing
more features with very small tolerances. Therefore, it is also widely used for
producing automotive parts.
2. Freedom to Choose from a Wide Range of Material
There
is a vast line of material that can be used for plastic injection moulding process.
While there is an exhaustive list of standard materials, there are also
materials like antistatic plastic, thermoplastic rubber, chemical resistant
plastics and bio compostable material with color compounding or masterbatch
coloring to choose from. Furthermore, this process also allows you to design
products with flame retardant materials which are extremely rigid such as PPO.
3. An Automated Process that Reduces Manufacturing Costs
Plastic
injection moulding is an automated process. As a matter of fact, a majority of
the injection moulding processes are carried out using machines and robotics to
perform tasks which are easily controlled and managed by a sole operator. Since
automation reduces the manufacturing costs, the overhead cost is also reduced.
In addition, with reduced workforce, the overall cost of manufacturing products
gets also reduced. As a result, end-consumers also get the benefits of low cost
products.
4. Considered to be Highly Efficient as Compared to Other Alternatives
Once
injection moulds are designed in accordance with the specifications given by
clients and the presses are preprogrammed, the actual moulding process for
producing parts becomes very quick. It hardly takes times and therefore, more
products can be produced from a single mould. Eventually, high production rates
make plastic injection moulding highly efficient and cost-effective as well.
5. Produces Less Waste and Thus a Preferred Technique for Green Minded People
The
part repeatability factor is very high for injection moulding. You can even
regrind the sprues and runners (i.e. the leftover plastic bits created by
tunnels from where the plastic material reaches the actual mold) for material
reuse. Thus, it has also a positive environmental impact.
After considering all these benefits, you can easily gather that plastic injection moulding technique is quite a beneficial, useful and efficient process for producing a large variety of plastic products.
