Anyone who has spent time around an injection molding shop floor has probably heard a version of the same debate repeated over and over: should this next project use steel tooling or...
Category: Tooling Materials
Explore tooling materials, mold steel types, plastic materials, surface finishing, heat treatment, shrinkage rates and material selection for mold projects.
How to Choose Materials for Mold Projects
There is a moment early in almost every mold project where someone asks a deceptively simple question: what should this actually be made of? It sounds like it should have a quick...
Common Mold Steel Types Explained
A mold shop owner once told me something that stuck: "Every mold failure I have ever dealt with traces back to one of two things. Either the design was wrong, or the...
Common Plastic Materials for Injection Molding
Ask five different people in manufacturing which plastic to use for a new part, and you will probably get five different answers, all delivered with total confidence. That is not because nobody...
Glossy vs Matte Finish in Injection Molding
Pick up two plastic parts that are otherwise identical and there is a decent chance one will feel completely different from the other, even though the mold that made them might have...