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Introduction
Introduction
• Injection moulding is a manufacturing technique for making parts from thermoplastic and
thermosetting plastic materials in production.
• Molten metal or plastic is injected at high pressure into mould, which is the inverse of product
shape.
• The moulds are usually made by steel or aluminium and precision machined to form the
features of desired parts.
• Here, the parts are mainly separated as core part and cavity part.
Types of moulding
• Reaction moulding is similar to plastic injection moulding except thermosetting polymers are
used, which requires a curing reaction to occur at the end.
• The two parts of the polymer are mixed together under high pressure into a mixture.
• Then the mixture is injected under low pressure into the mould.
• The mixture is sit in the mould long enough to expand and cure.
• If reinforcing agents are added to the mixture, then the moulding is reinforced reaction injection
moulding, and some of the agents are mica and glass fibers.