He future of injection moulding of polymers

Abstract

The injection moulding is one of the most sophisticated and very popular procedures in the production of polymeric parts. The position of the procedures of injection moulding in the main production chain has been indicated. Parts produced by these primary-shaping procedures are not only with well-defined shape and dimensions, but often also with very close tolerances. This is the main reason why is this procedure so popular. At the same time the development tendency in the production of polymeric parts shows an increasing significance in combining the structure of matter or material, processing conditions and the final properties of the product. This requires more numerous versions of the fundamental injection moulding procedure. Their description has been left out due to the great number of procedures, at least 106. In the Table 1 the most important injection moulding procedures has been given, grouped according the description of the most important characteristics of single procedures.