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What Products Can Be Made from Plastic Injection Molding?

Injection molds create a precise match between two halves of a blended part. This allows you to control material flow and create a seamless product. While injection molds are typically used for aluminum and steel applications, plastic injection molds can create cost-effective, durable parts for dozens of industries. Injection molding creates a repetitive, nearly error-free … Continue reading What Products Can Be Made from Plastic Injection Molding? →

Types of CNC Milling Machines

When it comes to modern production methods, CNC milling machines make producing custom-designed parts or components much more efficient. In the old days, workers had to use specialized tools to create pieces by hand or use highly specific machinery to perform one task during the production process. Now, technology enables companies of all sizes to make complex … Continue reading Types of CNC Milling Machines →

Guide to Manufacturing: How are Plastics Made?

Plastics are everywhere and are the most common material used for producing products, ranging from toys and household goods to precision parts in automotive and aerospace components. Plastics are versatile, with a wide range of materials that can be formed into parts that resemble rubber to products that are strong like steel, with complicated geometries … Continue reading Guide to Manufacturing: How are Plastics Made? →

How to Calculate CNC Machining Costs

CNC (computer numerically controlled) machining is a digital manufacturing process used to produce high precision parts from a CAD file. CNC machining is one of the most cost-effective methods of on-demand manufacturing to produce accurate parts, particularly various types of metal parts, with excellent physical properties. Although this method of part production has been around … Continue reading How to Calculate CNC Machining Costs →

Top 7 Benefits of Injection Molding for the Aerospace Industry

Injection molding provides many advantages to a wide range of industries with the ability to mass-produce precision parts and components with high-quality and consistent repeatability. The advantages provided to other industries are amplified when considering the many advantages injection molding provides to the aerospace industry. Injection molded components engineered with reinforced thermoplastics allow for higher … Continue reading Top 7 Benefits of Injection Molding for the Aerospace Industry →

QT Manufacturing Adds 250T Press

QT Manufacturing announces the addition of a new Engel ES700/250, 250-ton plastic injection molding press to our lineup. This doubles the clamping pressure and increases our capabilities to produce larger parts with our previously largest press, a 123-ton Nissei. With press sizes ranging from 30-ton to 250-ton, we offer broad capabilities to produce small to … Continue reading QT Manufacturing Adds 250T Press →

Best Practices for Injection Molding Tool Design

Many factors affect the quality of a finished injection molded product, such as process repeatability, raw material properties, the molding environment, complex part geometries and tool design. Even with every variable meeting the most desirable characteristics, a poor tool design will result in poor quality parts every time. It may not even be a poor … Continue reading Best Practices for Injection Molding Tool Design →

Firearms Parts Supplier: Precision Machining and Custom Molding

Firearms manufacturers require a high level of precision with all parts and components when producing firearms to meet the needs of law enforcement agencies, military and defense. QT Manufacturing meets the needs of modern firearms manufacturing with our precision machining expertise and custom injection molding, offering turnkey solutions for a variety of parts and components … Continue reading Firearms Parts Supplier: Precision Machining and Custom Molding →

QT Manufacturing Diversifies into Medical Parts Production

Market diversification is key to protecting a company’s sustainability, profitability and shareholder interest. When the economy experiences a downturn in one area, others will provide stability and mitigate risk of lost revenue. Proactive manufacturers, such as plastic parts producers and metal machine shops, are continually looking for new opportunities for market diversification. Strengthen Your Domestic … Continue reading QT Manufacturing Diversifies into Medical Parts Production →

Domestic Manufacturing Solutions for Successful Reshoring

Reshoring is the term used to describe bringing manufacturing and services back to the United States from other countries. Increasing domestic manufacturing helps to balance the trade deficits, provides more manufacturing jobs to U.S. workers thus reducing unemployment and helps to foster a skilled workforce. Reshoring also provides many benefits to OEMs and manufacturing companies … Continue reading Domestic Manufacturing Solutions for Successful Reshoring →