Manufacturing Guides
The Complete Guide to FEP Plastic Injection Molding: Properties, Chemical Compatibility, and Industrial Applications
Are you looking for a material that “can be injection molded, is resistant to strong acids, and has properties similar to PTFE”? Then you should take a closer look at FEP plastic. It is one of the few members of…
A Comprehensive Guide to PVDF Plastic Injection Molding: Properties, Applications, and Material Selection Decisions
PVDF plastic appears almost every time on the material selection lists for chemical fluid piping, semiconductor equipment, medical devices, and new energy battery systems. It is not a general-purpose plastic that competes on price, but rather one that has secured…
What Is Rapid Tooling?
Every product starts as an idea. But somewhere between that idea and a shelf-ready part, most teams hit the same wall: the mold takes too long. Waiting 8–12 weeks for a production mold — only to discover a wall thickness…
LCP Plastic: The Complete Engineering & Injection Molding Guide
Liquid crystal polymer occupies a unique performance tier — not just high-performance, but possessing a specific combination of properties that collectively define the material: the ability to flow into walls thinner than human hair, crystallize in microseconds producing self-reinforcing molecular…
PPSU Plastic: The Only Injection-Moldable Thermoplastic That Survives 1,000 Autoclave Cycles
That number is not a marketing claim — it is a documented material performance threshold that separates PPSU plastic from every other engineering thermoplastic in the polysulfone family, and from most high-performance resins at any price point. PSU and PES…
PPS Plastic: The Complete Engineering & Injection Molding Guide
Polyphenylene sulfide occupies the performance tier between standard engineering thermoplastics and ultra-high-performance polymers like PEEK — delivering continuous service temperatures to 220 °C, resistance to virtually every solvent below 200 °C, inherent UL 94 V-0 flame resistance without additives, and…
PEI Plastic: The Engineering Thermoplastic You Specify When Everything Else Has Already Failed
Polyetherimide — commercially known as Ultem® (SABIC) — is the material that gets specified once the design requirements have been clarified by failure. It is not the cheapest engineering thermoplastic on the list. It is not the easiest to process.…
ASA Plastics: The Complete Engineering & Injection Molding Guide
ASA plastics — acrylonitrile styrene acrylate — was engineered specifically to solve the outdoor durability problem that ABS cannot. By replacing ABS’s polybutadiene rubber phase (which contains UV-reactive carbon-carbon double bonds) with a saturated acrylic ester elastomer, ASA achieves approximately…
PEEK Plastic: The Complete Engineering & Injection Molding Guide
Polyetheretherketone occupies a performance tier that no other injection-moldable polymer reaches — a sustained service temperature approaching 260 °C, strength-to-weight ratio rivaling aluminum, resistance to virtually every industrial chemical except concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids, inherent biocompatibility validated for long-term…