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What Is an Injection Mold Slide?

Since many injection molded products have special requirements, a mold side-action or slide is often used to form complex geometries and release the finished product upon mold opening.  To achieve this, a “slide” or “slider” is often used as a core-pulling mechanism.  At its most basic level, the slider is used to turn the vertical […]

Plastic & Injection Molding

How Can You Prevent Injection Mold Flash?

As a common defect in injection molding, flash can have a significant impact on the level of scrap you are producing or cost of secondary processes as a manufacturer. While Automotive and Medical suppliers typically reduce scrap to near zero as part of the controlled process monitoring, many other components do not operate with as […]

Plastic & Injection Molding

5 Injection Molding Defects and How to Improve Them

Injection molding defects are often inevitable, and depending on the type of mold, various things could affect part quality. Typically, challenges are factors like material differences, ambient environmental impacts, machine changes, margins of error, and much more. Simply put, a variety of different things can cause injection molding defects; however, there are also small changes […]

Plastic & Injection Molding