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Search Results for: wall thickness

Overmolding for Custom Plastic Injection Molding

June 19, 2018 by abdul@AscendWare.net

Plastic parts with overmolding

Overmolding is a two-shot injection molding process that creates a single part by combining two separate but complimentary thermoplastic materials. The first shot, called …

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Part Design: Best Practices For Plastic Injection Molding

June 7, 2018 by abdul@AscendWare.net

Runners and gates in plastic injection molding

High quality, efficient tooling relies heavily on good part design as well as advanced skills in mold design and the manufacturing of the tool. An injection mold is a highly precision tool that must be rugged enough to withstand hundreds of thousands of high pressure molding cycles.

Filed Under: Injection Molding

Leveraging Mold Flow Analysis for Injection Molded Parts

June 5, 2018 by abdul@AscendWare.net

Fill Time result from the mold flow analysis report

When using Injection Molding as a process to manufacture your part, many aspects impact whether or not your injection molded part can actually be produced

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Poor steel condition can cause delays.

April 17, 2018 by abdul@AscendWare.net

We find that poor steel condition is a design issue that’s not often thought of in injection molding. Custom part complexities can stress steel that is not rigid enough to hold its form causing breaks.

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Hand Pull Portion of the custom injection mold that is used for creating undercuts in plastic parts. See Fig.1 Slide Portion of custom plastic injection molds

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Our part design guides will help you to address a variety of design challenges. For example, optimizing your part designs for manufacturability, cost, and

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