China Sourcing Guide Manufacturing Overseas: Protecting Your Brand’s Integrity Manufacturing overseas protecting your brand’s integrity starts with vetting, auditing, sampling, and writing the checks into the order. A low quote alone tells you nothing about the factory behind it. Your…
The Top Six challenges currently facing supply chains which will affect Supply Chains Plans for Chinese New Year are always the annual snare for businesses that contract manufacturing in China. A new set of complicated elements is in play as…
Companies that need an efficient, cost-effective way to launch new injection molded products still rely heavily on contract injection molding manufacturing in China. About thirty years ago, US companies started doing contract manufacturing with China and learned that doing business…
A tool loom should be incorporated into every injection molding operation. There are a wide range of capabilities in such departments, ranging from ejector pin replacement to welding and rewiring parting lines. Molding facilities should also consider building their own…
What Factors Affect Mold Performance The plastic mold building is very complicated. So many details need to work together. From design, machining, assembling, test and fix then finally go into the service. A lot of factors will affect the quality…
It does not always follow that the cleanest factory is the most efficient, nor that the dirtiest one is the least. It is, however, quite clear that good housekeeping aids efficiency and that bad housekeeping can be detrimental to profitability,…
There are many costs involved in the startup and operation of a molding facility, including Initial capital requirements, Processing costs, Raw materials, And many others, some obvious and some hidden. One most common cause of failure of any startup company…
The organizing for component handling starts in the design and manufacturing programming stage. Products to become deemed in component handling are listed below: Kind of tool: two plate,three plate, or hot runner system Component dimension, weight, and complication mass of…
Die casting forces molten metal into a steel die under high pressure. The metal fills the cavity in milliseconds and freezes quickly against the water-cooled die walls. This process suits high production of quality parts with tight tolerances and good…
Castings Materials:Any resin available in liquid form can be cast. Castable resins include phenolics, polyesters, epoxies, silicones and acrylics. Types of molds The type of mold used depends on the plastic, the size and shape of the part, and other…
