Plastic injection molding refers to the entire process of designing molds used for the production of plastic products. It requires experience and expertise as it involves a very complex process from plastic injection mold design to obtaining the right shape. Design stages should be carefully monitored, engineering calculations and simulations should be used. A quality mold design can increase the quality of the product and production efficiency. Product features and dimensions, printing quantity, and raw material type can be taken into account to produce perfect results. Therefore, Agersan Plastik produces the most suitable design for your target in line with the demands and expectations of users with its experience of over 10 years and expert designers. Since the compatibility of plastic injection mold manufacturing and design with the plastic part can affect success, you can contact Agersan Plastik immediately to realize the projects in your mind.

What is Plastic Injection Mold?

Injection molds are generally tools that allow the material to be molded to be shaped with the appropriate volume space. Thermoplastic injection molds, which are widely used today, help to easily shape plastic materials. They allow the melted raw material to be easily and homogeneously distributed inside the mold and to obtain the desired shape. They also enable the product to cool quickly and support it to be easily removed. The elements that make up the mold mostly include male and female mold sections, pusher pins, locating rings, runner bushes, upper and lower plates, support plates and pusher plates.

What are the Types of Plastic Injection Molds?

Many different types of plastic injection molds can be produced depending on the purpose of use. It is possible to list 5 different types of molds as vacuum, thermoset, blow molding, extrusion, sheet rotation. Products in very different categories can be produced with each of them. With vacuum molds, also known as thermoforming, the product takes its form by heating thermoplastic sheets and pulling them into the mold with the help of vacuum. In thermoset molds, the products are provided with the shape of the mold by heating composite and thermoset plastic, applying pressure and cooking. In this method, in addition to not being recycled, since there may be overflow burrs during the process, the final shape of the product is ensured with methods such as vibration and sanding. In blow molds, which are generally used in bottle production and also known as blow molds, the plastic trapped inside the mold is inflated with pressurized air. In extrusion ones, the plastic melted in the machine called extrusion furnace is continuously flowed and cooled with the help of water and air at the exit. Sheet rotation molds, where rotation technology is used, are quite ideal for the production of more difficult shapes. Although it is used in the production of materials such as canisters, children’s playgrounds, water tanks, it is preferred due to its lower cost and in the production of small quantities of products.

How to Manufacture Plastic Injection Molds?

It is easy to say that plastic injection molding is a multi-stage process. Today’s plastic injection mold technology makes it easier to create the most suitable and successful designs for the product to be manufactured. A standard mold production consists of; mold design drawn according to your needs from a technical drawing or sample, professional 3D prototype manufacturing made with the drawn design, the approval process of the prototype in terms of dimensions and other aspects, then the transition to high-precision injection mold manufacturing, the injection printing process of the manufactured mold, quality control where measurement reports are received, and finally the production phase.