EMD USA posted on January 06, 2012 03:13
Plastic is hugely popular in today’s world mainly due to its requirement. Plastic can be molded into the desired shape by plastic injection molding and CNC machining. Plastic is the only material apart from metal which has gained wide-spread popularity. It has been accepted mainly because it can be easily molded and its light-weight nature. In many outdoor booths plastic is widely used. In any outdoor display such as replica of a business structure or anything similar it is used widely.
In the process of Plastic injection molding, raw plastic is fed into a piece of equipment for heating and dissolving it. The output from this equipment is fed into molding cavity for cooling and forming the desired shape of customer’s descriptions. In this process, plastic is fed right into a piece of equipment where it is heated and dissolved. It is then fed into a molding cavity where it will cool and form according to the customer description. Some materials such as acrylic, HDPE, Kynar, and Radel are some materials which can be substituted for plastic in rapid injection molding process. Plastic is the material to be used for outdoor displays and outdoor exhibits.
After this process, the finished product is ready to be used in healthcare, electronic products, and aviation businesses. The shapes and various other features can be improved through a process called CNC routing of cutting, surfacing and drilling. CNC machines carries all these function on the finished product easily. Accuracy will not be achieved by performing these set of processes on the finished product manually. The duration for completing the process on the finished product will also be long. A CNC machining is an automated machine where all functions performed are processed by a system. An automated CNC machine performs the operation and production faster and more efficiently making it ideal for the requirement of many types of industries.