What are the reasons that affect the cost of plastic products?
Injection molding refers to a method in which melted plastic materials are injected into an injection mold at high temperature through a hot screw at a rated temperature, and then a plastic product will be ready to collect after cooling. Injection molds and molding process are currently one of the most important methods, which can be used to make injection products with complex structures and large quantities.
The cost of injection molding includes injection molds, injection materials, and processing costs, etc. Customers can choose suitable mold material by the product itself, and further control the costs of the project. So, how exactly do these factors affect the costs?
1. Product material
It is better to choose the material by the actual needs annually, and the costs also include color masterbatches, additives, mold temperatures.
2. Mold structure and material
The mold material refers to the steel material used for manufacturing injection molds. We can choose the suitable mold steel by the quantity needs and processing methods. For instance, we generally choose NAK80 as the mold core material while manufacturing mirror polishing products. The structure of the mold is affected by two reasons, product structure, and annual production. The product structure directly determines whether the mold needs sliders or lifts, these accessories will increase the mold costs. Another reason for influencing the mold costs is the annual production, but how do these reasons affect the costs? If we need one product largely, it means that the mold should have more cavities on the structure to reach the output per month or year. Multi-cavity mold means complex mold structure and high steel needs.
3. Injection molding machine
The injection mold machine is one of the foundations of the molding process, another one is the injection mold. Before the project starts, it is wise to choose a suitable molding machine by the mold size and product, we can save more energy.
The reasons that affect the most injection molding are far more than the three listed reasons above. To ensure the economics of the project, a better understanding of the project should be done by the customer before mold manufacturing. Shanghai Future Mould is a manufacturing factory that has been engaged in mold manufacturing for more than ten years, which has high authority in the calculation of mold cost and product prices. If you need to know the specific cost of the mold, please feel free to contact us.
