With the many choices available across the United States, how can you be sure you’re choosing not just the top plastic injection molding company, but the one that’s right for your project?
Agape Plastics answers these questions with a few defining traits to seek out during your search for an injection molding company.
Top Plastic Injection Molding Companies Boast Multiple, Custom Capabilities
The top injection molding companies should be able to go beyond standardized, stock manufacturing processes.
Custom injection molding services should be the standard for the top companies. Creating molds or working with provided molds in order to create the product you need is what separates good companies from great companies.
It’s more than just custom injection molding services, however, that should catch your eye during a search. Other manufacturing services, such as insert injection molding and custom insert injection molding, should also be available; this showcases the ability to create high-volume parts in a controlled state in addition to the main manufacturing method.
Enhanced Value-Added and Secondary Services
Top plastic injection molding companies will also be able to offer enhanced value-added and secondary services that differentiate your plastic parts from the competition. Key services can include:
Post Mold Assembly Services
Top companies won’t just manufacture your injection-molded products. They’ll offer assembly service, saving you time and helping you achieve market-ready status faster.
Plastic Welding
Plastic welding could include sonic welding or heat-staking. Sonic welding utilizes high-frequency sonic vibrations to create frictional heat between the parts being joined. Whereas heat-staking is often used for larger parts, and uses both heat and pressure to soften a specific area of the plastic enough to be remolded into a new shape or profile that forms over or around the connecting part.
Error-Proofing Equipment Design and Build
Eliminating errors in a facility, as opposed to finding them in the marketspace, is certainly something that top plastic injection molding companies should be able to do. Agape Plastics uses specialized equipment for assembling components to prevent misassembled products from being shipped to our customers. By implementing fail-safes in the fixture, tooling, programming, and machining processes, errors can be quickly identified and defective parts removed from the process before they cause greater problems down the line.
In-House Tool Rooms
Tool room services are offered by nearly every injection molding company. But what separates good manufacturers from great is the ability to create fast turnarounds and keep repairs in-house in order to drive down costs.
In-House CMM
Agape Plastics uses a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to assess the dimensional accuracy and geometric characteristics that meet specified tolerances and quality standards. Parts are measured both pre- and post-production for quality control measures, testing, and to prevent components that are out of tolerance.
Top Plastic Injection Molding Companies Offer Top-Notch Engineering
Qualified and experienced engineers will know the ins and outs of everything related to your order. Keep these engineering services in mind during your search.
Complete Program Management
Top injection molding companies should have the confidence to operate a complete program management system throughout the entire manufacturing process. Agape Plastics’ complete program management process offers you a dedicated project engineer/program manager to take your part from concept and quoting to production.
Our highly skilled engineers are involved in developing prototypes, designing and building injection molding tools, vendor management, launch activities, implementing secondary operations, and more.
VA-VE Activities
Value analysis and value engineering services are cost-effective services that top plastic injection molding companies can offer that encompass the full range of engineering services without driving up costs.
Agape Plastics offers value engineering to ensure that during product development, we focus on reducing costs or improving function (or both) by way of product evaluation and analysis. This takes place before any capital is invested in tooling, raw materials, or equipment.
Part Design Feasibility Analysis
Ensuring that your part design is feasible for its intended application is important for any injection molding company that considers itself a top manufacturer. Agape Plastics works closely with customers to assess current part designs and evaluate if they are feasible to manufacture. Bring us your drawings, and we can work together to ensure the best solution.
Part Design Optimization Services
Sometimes, all one needs for an original design is guidance to make it manufacturable. That’s what part design optimization is all about. Agape Plastics can take your design and work with you to find a way to get it right.
Metal to Plastic Engineering
Top plastic injection molding companies create solutions. With metal to plastic engineering services, making metal products into plastic is possible by finding the right type of material and creating a plan that can offer the benefits of metal but with the lower cost and product benefits of plastic.
Serving Multiple Industries
The top plastic injection molding companies won’t specialize in one specific industry. If they’re truly experts, their work can be seen across many different industries.
Working in multiple industries shows a company’s flexibility and understanding of the unique nuances of a given marketspace. Every industry is different, each with its own challenges and difficulties. As an example, Agape Plastics serves the following industries.
- Automotive
- Agriculture
- Appliances
- Furniture
- Hand tools
- Semi trucks
- Renewable energy
- RV, marine, and power sports
Elite Quality Management
You shouldn’t have to worry about quality management with the top plastic injection molding companies. They will be able to show the following:
- Routine quality checks before, during, and after injection molding services have been performed, ensuring no defects and that parts function as designed
- Regular maintenance on machines and ongoing employee education to ensure team members are up to date with the latest technology and training
- Key certifications such as IATF 16949 and ISO 14001
Agape Plastics: A Top Plastic Injection Molding Company
Agape Plastics is an industry-leading manufacturer in the injection molding market. Since 1973, we’ve devoted resources to improving what we do best, not just with injection-molded components, but with our other capabilities as well.
It’s not enough to just produce high-quality parts. We place great value on continuous innovation and constantly strive for improved efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs. Producing high-quality parts starts with material selection, and we’re here to help.
Contact us today ahead of your next project where injection-molded components are needed. You’ll see that our high-quality products, backed by both an IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 certification, separate us from the competition.