Top Reasons to Convert Metal Parts to Plastic
Cost Reduction
Realize savings due to lower material cost, faster production times, several parts combined into single mold, and less scrap
Lighter Weight
Many industries face incentives to reduce overall weights by reducing component weights. Also consider lower shipping costs.
Material Choice
Customize specific mechanical and resistance properties (impact, corrosion, heat, chemical) from over 25,000 engineered plastics.
Appearance
Color, surface texture and high-quality surface finishes can be achieved in a single manufacturing cycle without requiring secondary processes.
Benefits of Metal to Plastic Conversion
The benefits of plastic have everything to do with chemistry, and the most basic building blocks of plastics – monomers (groups of atoms that make a unit cell.) These monomers are combined in limitless ways to form polymers, or plastics, that are unique to specific design and product performance requirements.
Design Freedom
- Consolidate parts into single mold
- Complex shapes or geometries
- Greater material choice
- Overmold with dual materials/hardnesses
- Greater material choice:
- High temperature, chemical, and corrosion resistant materials
- Fillers and additives to achieve specific characteristics
- Conductive or shielding properties
- Optimize impact resistance, strength, stiffness, toughness, friction and wear
Quality & Life
- Highly repeatable process
- Less scrap
- Consistent quality
- Longer tool life
Lower Costs
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Faster cycles
- Final shape achieved in initial process
- Little to no secondary finishing
- Stable material cost
- Lighter part weight
- Lower packaging and shipping costs
Customer Success Stories
- Add value by increasing efficiency
- Implement automation with fast payoff
- Simplify multi-part tool programs
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