Your choice of resin must balance your product's functional needs and any aesthetic considerations you have. Material choice will also help determine the color, clarity, and feel of your product. Selecting sustainable materials may help your product appeal to a broader range of customers.

Draft angles and consistent wall thickness are important from a functional standpoint, adding strength and stability to your product. As a bonus, they can also make your products more attractive. Even wall thickness can help prevent the plastic sinking and burning in the mold which can occur in narrower or uneven walled sections. Adding draft angles can help in ejecting parts from the mold while also helping prevent ugly drag marks.

Carefully designing the flow of plastic can make for a more attractive product, and one that requires less post-processing time and labor. Gate and ejector placement design can reduce trimming and punch marks from ejector pins. Knit lines form wherever flows of plastic meet each other as they move through a mold (around a core or if there are multiple gates to admit the plastic). These meeting points can be more or less visible depending on design, color, and material choices.

Careful mold design can help to limit the amount of finishing needed. When finishing is needed, it can include trimming, sandblasting, polishing, and laser-etching to produce the surface and look you want.

While your product may stand out on its own, value-added services such as packaging, bagging, and decorating are important elements of creating the whole package. 

Getting your product noticed and valued is a crucial part of your business, so be sure you're making the right choices. Contact us today to create your stand out product.