The Benefits To Using Structural Foam

By Marissa Velazquez


There are many reasons why using structural foam has become increasingly popular these days. Businesses both small and big realize the potential and they will take advantage of it to create their goods. In addition to the low-cost, it further uses efficient, lightweight materials during production. This helps businesses to save on shipping and handling costs. Plus, there are additional benefits when using this cool technology.

Standardized injection machines are also a cheap way to get ready to make a new product which has the same features. Simply put, many different parts can be mass-produced with identical features. For example, if a company makes various sized toolboxes these can be made to appear identical using the same mold.

This means that multiple parts can be made using one machine. Moreover, a single machine can handle two different types of materials and colors at the same time. This has huge money-saving potential for the company. They can now produced several items at the same time

A single machine can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rather than having several machines for different products, a company only needs one machine to do several jobs at the same time. Since everything is computerized the entire design process simple and straightforward. All the operator has to do is enter the specifications and quantities.

Plus, the various items may be situated near or at different positions around the mold. This will aid to optimize materials usage since the many locations are specified in efficient positions within the mold. A right portion of a part could be arranged closely following, or gated with a different part, thus generating the perfect utilization of materials.

The whole process uses low-pressure methods to create the items. The result is less war-page and higher quality control. The pieces are identical in quality since each pieces made right next to each other in the same manner. Still, the whole process is fast because the machines use certain techniques during the manufacturing process.

The company now has a broad range of flexibility. This allows the company to repeat the development process while at the same time allowing them to generate minor adjustments. This is beneficial and certainly helps during the development aspect. Production costs become lower since the process requires less time and material during development.

However, the benefits do not stop here. The new material is stronger than, or equal to metal. The weight is lower than its counterpart, but the strength to weight ratio is typically stronger than metal. Even as counterpart, solid plastic is not as strong as using injection materials. This fact alone gives injection a big money-saving advantage compared with other techniques.

Taking advantage of structural foam is easy to do today. The cost of buying the equipment is actually lower than the cost of buying other types of production machines. Plus, one machine can do the work of several others using different kinds of raw materials. It makes sense to further investigate the possibilities of this technology.




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