Insert injection molding services differ from injection molding on a technical level, but both services offer many of the same benefits, such as enhanced product strength, increased design flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Agape Plastics details the central benefits of insert injection molding along with some of its common applications.
What are Insert Injection Molding Services?
This is the process of molding or forming plastic parts around non-plastic parts (referred to as inserts). The inserted component is usually a thread or rod to add strength to the final piece. Most of the time, manufacturers will combine metal and plastics into a single unit.
Key Benefits
Insert injection molding services offer process advantages and create products that feature benefits such as:
Improved Component Reliability
Inserts are securely encased in the molded plastic thanks to a consistent bond and alignment. This reduces potential loosening, misalignment, and joint failures that could potentially occur with secondary services.
Improved Strength and Structure
By combining metals with molded plastics, parts gain improved strength by localized reinforcement for threads, load paths, and wear areas. Structural integrity and long-term reliability are greatly improved by combining metals with molded plastics.
Cost-Effectiveness
Insert injection molding services incorporate the metal inserts into the molded plastics, effectively eliminating assembly services. This also positively impacts labor and operating costs.
Reduced Size and Product Weight
If customers are relying on fully metal components, by switching to insert injected molded parts, the combination of metal and plastic drastically reduces both size and weight in parts. Even with different materials, products don’t lose their durability or function; rather, the parts operate the same but are lighter.
Enhanced Design Flexibility
The production process behind insert injection molding allows for complex designs and geometries, along with tight tolerances.
Common Applications
You’re more likely to come across an injection molded component than an insert injection molded part, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t common. Here’s where you could expect to see components made through this type of manufacturing service.
- Automotive industry
- Sensor housings
- Underhood connectors
- Medical
- Surgery tool handles
- Catheter hubs
- Implant device housings
- Electronics
- PCB connectors
- Switch housing
- Terminal blocks
- Overmolded contact strips
- Aerospace
- Lightweight housings
- Cable and harness connectors
- Industrial and consumer uses
- Power tool handles
- Appliance components
- Knobs and gears
Insert Injection Molding Services at Agape Plastics
Agape Plastics handles insert injection molding products with vertical machine capabilities operating anywhere from 110T to 340T. In total, we have 46 injection molding machines, both horizontal and vertical, with the ability to mold just about any thermoplastic material.
We currently mold with thermoplastic olefins (TPO), polyphenylene (PP), nylon, acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate (ASA), and more. We utilize different fillers and additives in materials, including glass-filled, talc-filled, impact-modified, and more.
Contact Agape Plastics For Your Insert Injection Molding Services
Agape Plastics has served as an industry-leading plastics manufacturer since 1973, when we began creating injection-molded components. Our capabilities have since expanded, and we also perform insert injection molding services.
Regardless of the industry you’re in, components don’t leave our facility until they have passed our stringent internal quality control measures.
Considering insert injection molding? Contact us today, and we’ll turn your design into a product you’ll be proud of.