Injection Molding

When is comes to manufacturing your product there are numerous processes to choose from. Below we briefly discuss just one of the choices: Injection Molding. The members of frethot are designers and engineers and can help you choose the best method of manufacturing. If you have any questions regarding the content of this blog or need assistance with the design, engineering, specifying for manufacturing, graphic design, packaging design, prototyping, or manufacturing of your product, please visit our website at www.frethot.com.

Injection molding is one of the most common manufacturing processes for plastics. The process produces parts from both thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics. Injection Molding is used to produce packaging, bottle caps, automotive dashboards, pocket combs, and most other plastic products available today.

Below is short illustration of the process.

• Materials (1) are fed through a hopper (2) into a heated barrel(3).



• Melted materials are then pushed by a screw(4), through the nozzle (5) into a mold(6), and cooled.



• The finished part is then ejected from the mold.

The British Plastics Federation has an animation of the process

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