Polyurethane injection molding creates microcellular parts and pieces needed for automobiles, construction, and other industries. Sometimes these are prototypes or other items that may come from polyurethane Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) processed materials. With the different materials used in this process, any of them may be cells as small as one-thousandth of an inch.
Polyurethane Injection Molding Process for Microcellular Systems
Many different processes are able to produce these prototypes and microcellular items. It may be RIM or even the overmolding process where there is a combination of two liquid components. In either one of these, there may be a combination of polyurethane, polyureas, polyisocyanurates, polyester, polyphenol, polyepoxide, and nylon 6. It could be the creation of a fiber mesh or a foamed material, though some of the thicker ones are solids used for walls in construction.
The Overmolding Process for Microcellular Systems
The overmolding process creates some of the smallest microcellular parts needed for automobiles and other items. Sometimes these are prototypes and other times these are for polyurethane RIM processed materials. These could make microcells as small as one-thousandth of an inch. It could be the creation of a fiber mesh or a foamed material, though some of the thicker ones are solids used for walls in construction.
Other Encapsulation Molding Processes
In the same way, encapsulation molding is able to provide a mold that helps develop some of the smallest parts needed for construction or other areas, walls are developed at about one-eighth of an inch up to one half. The injection molded enclosure has the ability to help with encapsulation where those parts are intended to fit.
The Reactive Encapsulation Molding Process
While polyurethane injection molding may easily make prototype microcellular parts, they start by developing a chemical foam that is able to be injected to a capsule or structure that presents the shape of the part to be constructed. Different reaction molding processes are able to make polyurethane and other parts by the creation of a chemical reaction and eventual curing.
In all of these processes, after two liquid components are combined, a chemical reaction is used to create a foam that will be molded into a microcellular part. Incredible pressure is also applied for the finalization of a part construction. Pressure is anywhere from 1500 to 3000psi in order to help create a plastic part from the foam that came out of the chemical reaction.
With all of these small and microcellular parts for different industries, there is the ability to create a mold and a prototype with a pressurized foam is a very specific procedure. No matter the process that is chosen, a chemical reaction of different liquids is able to provide the base material to create any number of tiny parts that are able to help with the construction of homes, cars, and many other items.
