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Prepping for More Innovation in 2017 and Beyond

The birth of composites heralded a new age in manufacturing, and long fiber injection molding — known as LFI — is taking composites to the next level in applications requiring reduction in mass and weight, such as in transportation, agriculture, and heavy trucks. LFI produces sought-after high-performing parts with superior stiffness and strength, and such reductions mean

Advantages of Using Thermoset Plastic Composites for Manufacturing Parts

Thermosets are an attractive alternative to metals and thermoplastics due to its exceptional physical properties and surface appearance. Thermoset composites remain stable in high and dynamic temperature applications, a beneficial quality in the rapidly shifting world of manufacturing. Thermosetting resins are popular because they are processed at low pressures and viscosities. This allows for convenient impregnation

Commonly Used Composites and Their Benefits for FRP, RTM, SMC, and LFI

There are a variety of common composites out there when it comes to automobiles and other forms of transportation. FRP, RTM, SMC, and LFI are some of the most notable ones. Each has its own unique set of benefits, making it relevant and valid to today’s industry needs and standards. Below is a quick glance

What are the Benefits of Long Fiber Composites?

Long fiber composites have a number of properties with unique capabilities that translate into desirable product benefits. Due to the long fiber material flexibility offered for users, long fiber technology is very popular in the auto, agriculture, heavy truck, consumer goods, and mass transit industries. Users have the option to use a ready-made compound or

What is Plastic Injection Molding?

Plastic injection molding uses granular or pelleted plastic resins to produce products ranging from automotive and airplane components to storage containers, musical instrument parts and hair combs. One of the most employed manufacturing processes because of its ability to produce enormous amounts of the same item, plastic injection molding uses a variety of plastic compounds

In-Mold Painting for Long-Fiber; Plastic Technology

For plastic technology in terms of the design of automobile/machinery parts, in-mold painting for long-fiber offers a variety of advantages over methods that were previously available. In-mold painting for long-fiber is a fairly newly available in-mold process for painting that makes the manufacture of polyurethane composite components of automobile parts and agricultural machinery pieces possible.

What Types of Businesses Can Benefit Most From Long Fiber Injection?

Each and every business is looking for anything and everything they can do to cut costs and time while maintaining or even improving quality and efficiency. But that is much easier said than done. Or is it? Long fiber technology is a structural reaction injection molding process (or SRIM) that takes one step which makes the process more automatic. Question

Picking The Right Manufacturing Process: Reaction Injection Molding vs Thermoplastic Injection

Reaction injection molding, commonly referred to as RIM, is a process where two liquid polymers are combined and then injected into a single heated mold. When these polymers are combined and blinded, they begin a chemical reaction that allows them to expand to fill the mold, then set into a solid part. RIM is definitely

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