Buyers Guide to Selecting an Injection Molder

Purchasing injection-molded components is a major undertaking. And choosing an injection molding supplier can be nerve-racking. Suppliers have different processes, protocols, and communication styles.  

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What are you looking for in a plastic injection molding partner? What are your expectations for quality, timing of delivery, technology, production capabilities, financial health, and a continuation plan?

All of these are considerations when looking to deliver a project on time and within your budget. 

Some partners, such as Crescent Industries, have evolved the capacity to offer post-processing operations to help manage the complete supply chain. This full-service approach can provide design, mold build, molding, secondary operations, and inventory management to help ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.

Choosing a supplier is not simply a matter of choosing the lowest number from a series of estimates. It&#;s important to dig down into the core competencies of the potential partner and understand if they can handle a project from cradle to grave and beyond.

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One of the biggest issues in the injection molding industry &#; for molders and customers alike &#; is evaluating the total cost of ownership throughout the lifetime of a project. That means understanding the difference between being price conscious and cost conscious. 

It&#;s important to understand your needs and to plan for the future. For example, one OEM chose a supplier for an initial prototyping and short-run production. But once the production demand increased, the supplier could not support the required high-volume production due to capacity and resource restraints. They had to move the tools to a supplier who could handle these high-volume orders. On the other end of the spectrum, another customer incurred steep setup fees without understanding that they had chosen a supplier that only did high-volume production.

You are not just choosing a supplier; you are choosing a manufacturing partner.

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