Glass Fiber Composite · Product form
Glass Fiber Composite Molded Component
I need thousands of polymer parts. Who moulds this material, and what is the tooling cost?
What it is
Polymer part produced directly to shape by injection or compression moulding. Economic only at volume because of tooling cost, but far cheaper per part than machining from stock once the tool exists.
- Typical dimensions
- Limited by press tonnage and shot size.
- Also known as
- moulded part, injection moulded component, insert moulded part
Suppliers
Grouped by what they actually are. A mill and a distributor answer different needs.
Mills and producers 1
Companies that manufacture this form. Mill direct means longer lead times and mill minimums, with full melt traceability.
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Reinhold Industries, Inc. Reported
Sheet moulding compound and custom composite components. Reinhold's space and defense line covers composite and ablative components including rocket nozzle assemblies. NOTE: Reinhold's work is ABLATIVE composite. Material designed to char and erode at a predictable rate to protect the structure behind it. It is qualified on recession rate rather than strength retention, so do not treat it as interchangeable with a structural laminate. This atlas has no ablative product entry, so it is recorded against the nearest modelled form.
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