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News, Trends, and Injection Molding Problems and Solutions at Your Fingertips

At PPI, we’re all about sharing the knowledge, because the more you know, the more informed your decision-making process can be and the more confident you are in the process. Get the information you need about plastic injection molding problems and solutions, best practices and the latest industry trends and news through the PPI blog.

8 Advantages in Metal to Plastic Conversions

June 20, 2018Blog

As plastic parts and their manufacturing capabilities have increased, the industry has been moving to replace metal components with this alternative. But many potential plastic conversions still exist, often because they have always been made of metal. When the clear advantages that plastic parts offer over metal are explored, many companies discov ... More

The High Cost Of Not Getting It Right

May 10, 2018Blog

When you’re creating quality products for your customers, you have to look at the integrity of the parts, the labor that goes into it, and everything else. If you don’t get something right, it comes at a high cost. Your customers have high expectations, which means you can’t risk putting anything to chance. If you’re [&helli ... More

Sourcing Quality Plastic Parts and Selecting the Right Manufacturers

April 12, 2018Blog

High-Quality Parts and Manufacturers Plastic parts, in general, seem to be widely available in the modern world. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that finding high-quality plastic parts will be easy. There are certainly plastic component manufacturers that will fail to perform at the right level. Different organizations will have to fin ... More

Plastic Part Design for Many Modern Industries

March 13, 2018Blog

Plastic Parts and Technological Change Plastic part design is important within the context of a very wide range of industries today. Today’s heavily technological society has made some aspects of plastic part design more challenging in certain respects. For one thing, the market changes very rapidly in a highly technological society like this ... More

5 Benefits of Choosing Plastic Parts Over Metal

February 19, 2018Blog

Dating back to the 1950’s, we began to see the rise in plastic manufacturing over metal manufacturing. However, nearly 70 years later, many manufacturers still are not aware of all the benefits plastic has to offer that metal does not. Not only is plastic a highly durable and reliable material to build parts with, it […] ... More