Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Forming Techniques pg. 60
- Blow Moulding
- Advantages
- Intricate shapes
- Hllow shapes with thin walls
- Reduce weight/material costs
- Ideal for mass production
- Low unit cost
- Disadvantages
- High inital set-up costs
- Mould expensive to develop/produce
- Applications
- Plastic bottles
- Fizzy drinks
- Shampoo
- Containers
- Injection Moulding
- Advantages
- Ideal for mass production
- Low unit cost
- Percision moulding
- High-quality surface finish/texture can be added to mould
- Disadvantages
- High initial set-up costs
- Mould expensive to develop/produce
- Applications
- Casings for electronic products
- Containers for storage/packaging
- Vacuum Moulding
- Advantages
- Ideal for batch production
- Inexpensive
- Easy to make moulds that can be modified
- Disadvantages
- Needs to accurate
- To prevent webbing
- Large amount of waste material produced
- Applications
- Chocolate box trays
- Yoghurt pots