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A part comes off the milling machine with all its holes in the right places and its faces flat within a few thousandths of an inch and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. But that part is not finished. It still needs a bushing pressed into that hole, the two halves still need to be welded together and it still needs a retaining ring snapped into a groove. These secondary operations are the last chance to get everything right and they are also the place where many good parts turn into scrap. At Pacific Plastic Technologies, we see this every […]

In injection molding, cycle time is the heartbeat of profitability. Every second trimmed from the mold’s open‑close‑cool sequence compounds into major gains: lower part cost, higher throughput, and more predictable delivery schedules. At Pacific Plastic Technology, we treat tooling design as an engineering discipline, not a commodity. The decisions made long before steel is cut, including runner strategy, cooling layout, steel selection, and maintenance planning, directly determine how efficiently a mold will run for years to come. This is a look inside PPT’s tooling playbook and the design choices that consistently reduce cycle time while protecting long‑term ROI. Hot vs. […]

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