About injection molding companies near me

What is injection molding?
Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermoset plastics. Injection molding is used to create a wide variety of parts, from small to large, from a variety of materials. Injection molding is a high-volume production process, and parts can be made very quickly.

What are the benefits of injection molding?
Injection molding is a manufacturing process that is used to create objects from both thermoplastic and thermoset materials. Thermoplastics are materials that can be melted and then injected into a mold where they will solidify. Thermoset materials, on the other hand, are materials that are initially in a liquid state, but will solidify after being injected into a mold. Injection molding is a popular manufacturing process because it is a relatively easy and efficient way to create large numbers of objects from a variety of different materials.

What are the steps in injection molding?
Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from thermoplastic materials. Injection molding is used to create products from both rigid and flexible plastics. The process begins with the injection of molten plastic into a mold cavity. The mold is then cooled to solidify the plastic, and the part is ejected from the mold.
There are several steps in the injection molding process:
1. The molten plastic is injected into the mold cavity.
2. The mold is cooled to solidify the plastic.
3. The part is ejected from the mold.
4. The part is trimmed and cleaned.
5. The part is packaged and shipped.

What are the tips for injection molding?
There are many tips for injection molding that can help improve the manufacturing process. Some of these tips include:
1. Properly sizing the injection molding machine to the part
2. Ensuring that the part is designed for injection molding
3. Optimizing the part design for manufacturability
4. Minimizing the number of sharp corners on the part
5. Using ribs and bosses to add strength to the part
6. Designing the part with a draft angle
7.optimizing the gate location
8.optimizing the parting line

Injection Mold Manufacturing

WHY CHOOSE TKB Injection Mold Manufacturing?

Your injection mold manufacturing makes your product from concept to reality?

Your injection mold is manufactured with the ideal precision?

Want custom plastic molds to without flashes and with durable mold die life?

Then start mold manufacturing at TKB Mold, and let’s creat an ideal injection mold solution for your product.

Out standing engineering team for export molds

Rich experience in mold fabrication

Advanced manufacturing equipment

Quality assurance of ISO9001: 2015 system

Fast delivery time

Excellent after sales service

TKB Process for Injection Mold Manufacturing

To make a good quality export plastic injection mold, processes as below for your reference:

DFM Report, Mold Flow analysis, conclude 2D/3D Mold drawing, approval to mold fabrication.

Mold steel preparation—Processing—Mold Base Processing—-Electrodes Processing—-Mold Parts Processing—-Quality Control—–Mold Fitting and Assembly—Inspection—-Mold Trial—Mass Production Trial—Inspection PASS—Pack and export the Mold

TKB types of plastic injection mold

Since plastic injection mold is widely used for many industries, TKB mold has advantage for producing high precision injection molds as follows:

Automotive Mold +

Medical Mold +

Electronics Mold +

Home Appliance Mould +

Industrial Mold +

Aerospace Mold +

Overmold +

Precision Molds +

major mold applications

FAQ

Date:2021-8-10

FAQ/ Frequently Asked Questions

As a plastic mold and injection molding company in China, we prepared answers for following most frequent asked queries for you, for more queries are always be here for you.

1. What info needed to get a correct mold quotation? How fast does it take to quote a project?

1)2D or 3D product drawing is needed for a mold quote;

2) If special requirement on mold steel, mold life, cavity quantity, hot runner requirement, part material, forecasted year quantity. Complete information will help to a most suitable cost effective, value added mold solution.

3) Normally take 2 working days to quote a new mold project seriously, and expedite quote is also available.

2. What’s the payment condition in TKB Mold?

1) New customer for mold: T/T 50% deposit, 50% against sample approval.

2) Mold modification: 100% upon sample approval.

3) Injection molding parts: 50% deposit, 50% before shipment.

4) VIP customer special terms: to be negotiated.

3. What’s the price terms/freight TKB mold will offer?

Normally TKB will offer ex-work TKB price for injection mold and plastic parts.
Free mold trial shotting samples free of charge and with freight to collect.
VIP customer special terms: to be negotiated.

4. What’s lead-time for a plastic mold and injection molding processes?

Injection mold lead-time counted from mold drawing approval and receipt of deposit to first mold trial(T1), and the difficulty of the molds determines how much time is needed, normally 20 to 60 days.

Injection molding lead-time counted from sample approval and receipt of deposit to production finish, order quantity determines how much time is needed, normally 7 to 15 days.

5. Will TKB send DMF to customer?

Yes，TKB Mold will send DFM (design for manufacturing) analysis and even mold flow analysis prior to the start of mold construction for customer review/approval.

6. Will TKB send mold design for approval?

After DMF approval, TKB will send the mould design for approval, and TKB will not start steel-cut before getting customers written approval of mold design.

7. How many plastic samples will be free provided?

TKB normally would provide 10~20 shots first mold trial shooting samples with gate(if have) free of charge according to the size of the parts, it would be freight to collect.

8. Which side provides plastic resin for injection mold trial?

TKB can provided plastic resin, if needed customer can provide the plastic resin the same.

9. How to make sure of quality before shipment?

shipment can be arranged only after TKB QC inspection PASS, or customer QC inspection PASS, or third-party inspection PASS if required. And TKB will always be there to provide full support.

10. How will TKB keep record of all mold data.

TKB will keep record of all final approved 2D, 3D mold drawing, modifications document, and send to customer for file to avoid future confusion in case engineering change is needed.