Tips to Help You Design More Affordable Products

Managing Profitability The key to manageable business growth and increased profitability is to maintain healthy margins, but you might find that the amount you spend on manufacturing is throwing your profitability out of whack. Depending on what you’re manufacturing, the types of materials you’re using, and the scale of your operation some manufacturing costs might…

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COMPRESSION MOLDING VS. INJECTION MOLDING

Manufacturing has come a long way in the last several decades. New processes help increase productivity, shorten processing times, create more reliable parts, and lower overhead costs. Let’s take a look at one of the more popular molding methods, compression molding, and weigh it against standard injection molding based on some essential factors. WHAT IS…

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TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL INJECTION MOLD DESIGN

Injection molding isn’t a simple process, and as many of us know, it can sometimes take quite a bit of trial and error to get your injection molding designs just right. And while every new design requires several iterations between initial conception and production, there are several things you can do now to increase the…

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3D PRINTED INJECTION MOLDS: A NEW WAY TO TEST PRODUCT DESIGNS

3D PRINTED PROTOTYPES 3D printing has long been used to create prototypes that can test out product designs to ensure the fit and function of new parts, but recently it’s been gaining steam as an effective tool for creating injection molds as well. 3D PRINTED INJECTION MOLDS What is there to be gained by using…

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT INJECTION MOLDER

KASO Plastics understands how challenging it can be to find a quality injection molder. To make the decision-making process easier, we’ve provided a list of frequently asked questions we get here at KASO. You can use these questions to evaluate our team or other manufacturers to find the manufacturing partner that’s right for you. DOES…

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NEW WHITE PAPER: FIND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITH EARLY SUPPLIER INVOLVEMENT

The growing global marketplace has placed additional strain on product developers who are faced with the challenges of getting new products through product development and onto market faster than ever before. One solution is the Early Supplier Involvement process, where product designers and manufacturers get the opportunity to review product designs and leverage the combined resources of…

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