Injection Molded Acrylic Sheets

Because designing and creating the tool requires more time and heavy duty expensive materials the initial lead time and tooling cost is greater than thermoforming however tooling is a one time cost so for large quantities and repeat orders acrylic injection molding can provide a low per unit cost.

Injection molded acrylic sheets.

If you are interested in acrylic molding let s first examine what acrylic material is. This article uses a sheet about 1 4 thick so all times are about 10 to 15 minutes per step. Rebling has plastic injection molded acrylic for a variety of applications including lighting equipment housewares and medical devices. Modify the timing as necessary.

Acrylic is heated to a liquid then injected into a custom mold with a high pressure injection tool. For thicker sheets it will take longer and for thinner sheets it will take less time. Mma acrylic sheets and pmma resins. An injection molding machine consists of four major components.

Acrylic molding acrylic is one of the clear plastic molding materials the rebling team is experienced at. Instead of burning thermoplastics like acrylic liquefy which allows them to be easily injection molded and then subsequently recycled. The only major variable that can affect the forming process is the thickness of the plastic sheet. It is ideal for producing high volumes of the same object.

Injection molding is the most common modern method of manufacturing acrylic parts. By contrast thermoset plastics can only be heated once typically during the injection molding process.