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Plastic Fabrication comes in various forms depending on the quantity needed. Reaction Injection Molding is a cross between between injection molding and compression molding. Its commonly used to manufacture medium to large quantities of plastic parts. Here is an article written by our engineering team that will provide you insightful information about RIM Molding (Reaction Injection Molding)
Do check out our previous articles on Additive manufacturing listed below for a better understanding of how the Additive manufacturing works if you’re looking for smaller quantity manufacturing instead.
- Surface Finishing for Metal and 3D Printed Parts
- 3D Printing Technologies
- Design for 3D printing
- Additive Manufacturing plastics
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Low quantity to medium quantity manufacturing
For smaller quantities of plastic manufacturing, parts may be CNC‘d, laser cut or 3D printed. But for larger quantities, one might consider injection molding, compression molding, transfer molding, extrusion, blow molding, rotational molding, calendaring laminating, reinforced molding and foam molding.
Unlike smaller quantity manufacturing, Reaction injection molding is for creating parts that are easily made using a mold. While much of the manufacturing cost for smaller parts are accounted by manual labor, machine tool cost and material costs, when moving to higher quantity production, majority of the initial costs comes from creating the mold for the part application. These molds are usually made with high precision and high wear life with its…
