Mold and Molding: Transforming the Manufacturing World
Molding has caused dramatic changes to the manufacturing world. While allowing simplest to the most complex part production, molding also ensures mass production without compromising quality. Molding is a manufacturing process that uses a mold (or a hollow cavity) to produce parts in desired specifications. Molded parts are used everywhere – from home to big industrial units and everywhere else you can see. From kitchen to aerospace, automotive or other industries you know, they all have molded parts and components in some form. Sometimes molding produces parts with just one component. However, the process can also be used to create complex parts with several components combining together to create one part. In this case, insert injection molding is used. The process uses an insert or a prefabricated part which is encapsulated by the molten resin to produce a finished part. Take a simple example of knife. The blade is prefabricated and works as an insert, which is then encapsulated...