Calculating Plastic Injection Mold Shrinkage
This week we’d like to focus on one of the topics in the extensive online Knowledge Base on our website: Plastic injection mold shrinkage. So, what is “mold shrinkage?” It is the contraction of a plastic molded part as it cools after injection. The amount of shrinkage can vary depending on various factors like material type and wall thickness. It is the responsibility of the tooling engineer to calculate, and compensate for, mold shrinkage so that the final plastic part will [...]