We all saw the destruction that hurricane Harvey left behind. What you may not have seen is how this hurricane completely devastated the plastic injection molding market. Southern Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast, home to about 90% of the nation’s chemical and plastics factories, is the building block for a wide range of consumer and industrial goods. This article will look at how exactly Hurricane Harvey damaged the plastics industry these past couple months. [Read more…] about Hurricane Harvey’s Effect on the Plastics Industry
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Plastic Perks: Metal-To-Plastic Conversion for Parts
Over the past century, the plastics industry has saturated our world and drastically changed the way we live. Today there are high-strength polymers that can meet and even exceed metals in terms of strength and flexibility. This has had a transformative effect on parts manufacturing, allowing metal parts to be swapped out for plastic parts that provide the same structure, but with reduced weight, more design flexibility, more efficiency, and less cost. If you want to take advantage of these changes with an existing part, it’s time to look at a metal-to-plastic conversion for the component. [Read more…] about Plastic Perks: Metal-To-Plastic Conversion for Parts