Plastic Injection Molding
From tooling design to cosmetic finishing, we offer customized, state-of-the art, cost-effective manufacturing solutions for your plastics manufacturing needs. With expert engineers and 50+ full-time tool and die makers on staff, you can rely on us to manufacture your products on time and to specification.
Plastic Injection Molding, from
Concept to Commercialization
Plastic injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing thermoplastic and thermosetting polymer materials. You may use plastic injection molding to manufacture a variety of parts, from micro-sized components to complete devices.
When you partner with us you align with a world-class, award-winning provider of plastic injection molding services, including injection molding, insert molding, overmolding, and micro molding. You may also take advantage of our multi-shot and multi-shot liquid silicone rubber (MSLSR) plastic injection molding capabilities
Our expert team can help you design moldable parts that are optimized for manufacture. These upfront investments in your program can help you reduce overall program costs, while increasing your product speed to market.
Plastic Injection Molding Advantages
The plastic injection molding process is ideal for producing low to high volumes of the same component. Some of the many advantages of plastic injection molding include:
- High production rates, lower labor costs
- Repeatable high tolerances
- Accommodation of a wide range of materials
- Minimal scrap loss and finishing required
Plastic injection molding capabilities:
- In-house molding machines ranging from 45 to 440 tons
- Material procurement in China and in global markets
- Wide array of resins
- Insert molding
- Over-molding of parts
- A large selection of secondary operations available
High-volume molding:
- High cavitation, high speed molding with automated value-added work cells
- Full service tool engineering, design and build, with life-of-program maintenance
- Complete value-added operations
- EMI/RFI shielding, electroplating, automated assembly
Low-volume molding:
- Flexible tooling designs
- Molding complicated part geometry, including subassembly and value-added decorating
- Overmolding and insert molding
- Class 100,000 clean rooms for molding and assembly
Multi-shot molding:
- Pioneer in 2-, 3- and 4-shot molding
- Full service tool engineering, design, construction/sourcing and life-of-program maintenance
- Value-added production, including pad printing, ultrasonic welding and automated assembly
- Highly automated parts handling and packaging
- Proprietary compatibility database of 250 materials for bondability, dimensional stability and environmental performance
Small parts molding:
- Automatic production of parts, ranging from .02 grams to 42 grams
- High volume, lights out molding and precision tolerance (± 0.001") parts, with life-of-program maintenance
- Roundmate and modular tooling • RJG process and press monitoring
Micro molding:
- Parts ranging in size from 0.0001-0.003 cubic inches
- Material options include engineering grade resins and implantable grade resins, such as
- PEEKTM, and metal alloys such as 316, 17-4, 420, and Kovar®
Precision decorating:
- Specialized decorative painting
- Laser etching/marking on raw resins
- Value-added operations
- Automatic assembly
Lenses:
- White room environment to control airborne contaminants and minimize rejects
- Transform translucent materials into highly visible lens/window applications for all markets
- World-class lens decorating, including pad printing, in-mold decorating, in-mold labeling, hard coating, anti-reflective coating
Insert molding:
- Plastic molded around plastic/metal inserts
- Fully automated cells for repeatable insert loading/placement and part testing
- Process control/monitoring for low to zero PPM defective levels