Five key benefits of plastic injection moulding

There are a number of key benefits to choosing the plastic injection moulding process for your product. Here’s our top five…

Wide range of properties

One of the key advantages of working with plastics is that they can have distinctive properties depending on what they are being used for – maybe a product needs to be extra durable and be able to absorb shocks or, if used for medical purposes, less prone to picking up harmful microbes.

To achieve these different outcomes, we supplement our plastics with additives – substances that are added in a polymer to make them more useful or to provide them with specific properties. Other additives can produce plastics that are flame retardant, more biodegradable or able to be used for anti-counterfeiting measures.

An efficient process

Sustainability is a crucial factor in all industrial processes and plastic injection moulding is no different. Our process is extremely efficient using only as much plastic as is required to create a part with any excess plastic being recycled and used again.

Rapid cycle times

Plastic injection moulding is one of the most widely-used technologies for long manufacturing runs because it is fast process that can produce large numbers of identical items, from high precision engineering components to disposable consumer goods, in a short time. Typically, on a standard mould a cycle of injection, packing, cooling and ejection takes less than a minute.

Extensively used

Plastic injection moulding can be used to make virtually any shape of product – from casings, tubs, lids and tools. A quick search on the internet and you will see the incredibly wide range of items that can be manufactured through plastic injection moulding.

Low cost

For long manufacturing runs, plastic injection moulding remains a very competitive option in terms of cost. Much of the cost is related to the design of the mould tool but our team at Skar has the skills and experience to ensure this phase is carried out as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.