Empowering pellet counters

Waste is often only tracked within a mold cavity itself—is the part now cooling inside the tool ready to ship or is it scrap? A molder’s investment in material, however, extends over a broader scope of the process, from transferring resin out of the railcar to drying and beyond, reaching all the way to converting bad parts, runners, and sprues into renewed pellets. Out of every 10 lb delivered to your plant, how many pounds do you sell to customers as finished parts?

Onshoring: too good to be true?

Onshoring is definitely happening, 
but offshoring continues.

Empowering pellet counters

Waste is often only tracked within a mold cavity itself—is the part now cooling inside the tool ready to ship or is it scrap? A molder’s investment in material, however, extends over a broader scope of the process, from transferring resin out of the railcar to drying and beyond, reaching all the way to converting bad parts, runners, and sprues into renewed pellets. Out of every 10 lb delivered to your plant, how many pounds do you sell to customers as finished parts?

By Design: Their first injection molded part

Metal-to-plastic conversions can result in overdesign.

The world is experiencing a growing shortage of water. Anything having to do with conserving, reclaiming, and purifying water is a growing market. I don’t know much about the water treatment industry, but I can spot a poorly designed plastic plumbing component.

Demystifying mold development

Most of us in plastics molding accept the fact that mold development is an iterative process—make it, try it, tune it, and repeat that till it’s making good parts. Normal, right? Yes, but maybe normal needs an engineering review.

The Troubleshooter: Sprue taper—more critical than you think

Restriction to flow is the problem of the day.

Contract manufacturer/molder buys customer's business

Custom molder, toolmaker, and contract manufacturer Precimold (Candiac, QC) has completed the purchase of the Search & Rescue lighting division EJE Trans-Lite (EJETL) from one of its clients, Rutter Inc. of St. John's, NL, for which it had been molding all the plastic components for the past 12 years.

Inventor’s device helps you get your game on . . . your phone

Working with inventors is common in the rapid prototyping business, with a lot of success stories out there. This latest one will make gamers sit up and take notice.

When inventor Hyrum Fairbanks came to Quickparts with a new product for his company Game Gripper LLC, he needed a mold fast. He’d just completed an idea for a new product and wanted to get it to market quickly.

Pacific Plastics adds second cleanroom, all-inclusive

Medical device molder Pacific Plastics & Engineering, a contract manufacturer and custom injection molder, added another stand-alone 1000-ft2 Class (7) 10,000 cleanroom within the facility’s existing footprint. The new cleanroom contains automated lines for assembly and secondary operations including pad printing, assembly, and heatstaking. This expands the company’s production line to include two Class (7) 10,000 cleanrooms, the first containing six presses, and five Class (8) 100,000 soft-walled cleanrooms.

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