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Plastic material storage solutions, such as bins and silos, are crucial for efficient material handling in industrial settings. Plastic material storage bins, placed near plastic moulding machines, can be either fixed or mobile, often made of steel, stainless steel, or durable plastic.
Continue readingOne of the exciting attributes of polymers is that the properties of any polymer can be modified by tinkering with the basic molecular structure or incorporating a range of additives. However, you have to be aware that altering one property may have a knock-on effect on other properties.
When you’re looking for the right materials for your medical device, there’s plenty to take into consideration.
Scrap rates for the injection moulding industry are easy to calculate, but often painful to believe – it is simply the difference in weight between how much plastic you buy in, and the total weight of parts delivered. Typically this is as much as 10%, although when questioned about scrap rates companies reported to us the figures they wanted to talk about – such as “customer reject rates” of 4.5ppm or their “production reject rate” where we heard of 0.001%. These figures are just self-congratulatory and distorted.
