Blow Molding Services
Widely used for manufacturing plastic bottles, blow molding is an effective and inexpensive method for plastic container manufacture. At R&D Molders, we are experienced practitioners of blow molding in a highly-automated, lean manufacturing environment. Our unique approach allows for a high quality, high volume product that remains cost-effective as well.
We are able to blow mold small, medium, and multi-part products in continuous, accumulating head, and reciprocating screw configurations. Our equipment can handle many common and specialty polymers in shot sizes up to 7 pounds, and supports designs with up to 4 cavities. Our production lines feature ERP monitoring, guaranteeing perfection in output quality. We also support mold transfer – customers can send in molds from prior work and have them integrated into the production process.
Our production facilities are also able to provide many value-added services and capabilities, such as turnkey product development, inspection and testing, moldmaking and tooling, clean room molding, and many others. We are open to orders of any size and can accommodate recurring delivery contracts. Orders are typically completed within 8 weeks.
To learn more about our high quality services, including our blow molding capability, see the table below and contact us directly.
Blow Molding Capabilities
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General Capabilities |
Contract Consulting Custom Design Prototyping Turnkey Quality Control Re-design Transfer Programs Just in Time (JIT) Product Validation |
| Product Capabilities | Small Parts Medium Components Multi-Component |
| Mold Styles | Continuous Accumulated Head Reciprocating Screw |
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Material |
Polyethylene Polypropylene Polycarbonate PETG ABS Ryton EVA Santoprene Hytrel Arnitel K-Resin Kostrate |
| Shot Size The maximum weight of plastic that can be displaced or injected by a single injection stroke. Generally expressed as ounces of polystyrene. |
Up to 7 pounds |
| Number of Cavities The number of cavities in the mold used to produce multiple products in one molding cycle. |
Min 1 cavities Max 4 cavities |
| Additional Services | Assemble Engineering Mold Making Machining Engineering Quality Control Lab Inspection CMM Machines Product Development Rapid Prototyping Tooling Clean Room Molding Process Monitoring In mold Labeling Leak Detection Bar Coding Inventory Control |
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Lead Time |
Generally 8 Weeks Quoted on job by job basis Emergency services available Rush Services Available |
| Production Volume | Specialty Production Shop Prototype Low Volume Small Run High Volume Large Run Long Run Large Scale Production Volume Run |
Additional Information
| Industry Focus | Aerospace Automotive Building Communication Consumer Goods Electrical Electronic Maritime Medical Military Optical Industrial Consumer Goods Sporting Goods GSA/DOD Home & Garden Energy |
| Industry Standards | MAPP Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors SPE Society of Plastics Engineers ISO 9001:2008 International Organization for Standardization UL Underwriters Laboratories FDA Registered |
| Efficiency | Lean Manufacturing |
| File Formats | AlphaCAM (AMD,ATD) AutoCAD (DWG,DWZ) BMP Bit Mapped Graphics Catia (CATDrawing,CATPart) Delcam (DGK, DMT) DXF Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format GIF Graphics Interchange Format IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, ANSI file format. Inventor (IDW, IPT) IronCAD (ICD,ICS) JPG or JEPG Joint Photographic Experts Group MasterCam (MDX, MC8, MC9, SET) PDES Product Data Exchange using STEP, Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data. A standard format for exchanging data between advanced CAD and CAM programs. Portable Document Format Pro-E or Pro/Engineer (DRW,PRT,XPR) SAT 3D ACIS Model File SolidEdge (DFT) SolidWorks (SLDPRT,SLDDRW,SLDDRT) STEP Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data SurfCam (DSN) TIFF Tagged Image File Format TurboCAD (TCW,TCX) Unigraphics (PRT) |
