Micro Injection Molding Products

Micro Injection Molding is a specialty of Microdyne Plastics.   Plastic Injection molded products include a huge array of items in every home, office and automobile. Blow molding is used for most plastic bottles, but most other plastic items are...

Four reasons it is time to replace your tools

Plastic Manufacturing Tips for Tool Replacement All blow molded, and injection molded plastic products are formed with molds that are called tools. These tools are both molds and machines that are manipulated by larger machinery to form each...

Plastic Recycling Becomes a Brand Differentiator

Post-consumer recycled (PCR) containers are starting to see some activity as a brand diffentiator. Adding a portion of PCR to the resin of plastic containers is gaining momentum for naturally oriented companies and those that want to appeal to...

Injection Molded Electronics Parts Manufacturing

Microdyne has over forty years of experience in electronic parts manufacturing and micro-molding. Most electronic parts today have plastic molded components. The ease of design, inert characteristics of plastic polymers, low cost, micro-tolerance...

Some Plastics are Made to Last Forever

Recycled plastic building materials While most petroleum-based plastics can last almost forever, sometimes that is exactly what we need. One such application is bridges. In the (really) old days, we had stone bridges, and we still do. Roman...

Report on Plastic Bottle Recycling 2017

Plastic recycling is a partnership. While plastic resin makers rush to make more environmentally friendly products, all used plastic products still must be returned to the recycling stream. The wide variety of plastics will require a proper...

Packaging and Plastic Containers Promote Sales

In the 1890s many new home products were introduced to help maintain the household. These included baking soda and other cooking powders and liquids as well as cleaners. In the unregulated era of packaging, many mistakes were made that caused...

Plastics and Modern Medicine

Plastic injection molding continues to provide solutions for the medical industry to improve health care. From PVC joint fittings that are made into wheelchairs for developing countries, to injection-molded positioning helmets for precision brain...

Plastic Micro Molding: The big and small of it

Some things just keep getting smaller and smaller. While you might think we are talking about the amount of product in a box, in this case we are talking about electronics, computer chips and tiny parts of smaller and smaller robots of all kinds...

Making Stuff: The Custom Plastic Manufacturer

Microdyne Plastics, Inc. started in 1975 as a custom plastic molding company.  From our small beginnings, this was how we began the company and still continue today. In today’s manufacturing world, the opportunity still exists to produce custom...

Plastic Injection Molding Basics

Injection molding is a process of “injecting” or flowing liquefied plastic resin into a mold. The resin will chemically cure or cool into a hard or rigid plastic object. The mold, called a tool in the industry, must have channels for the liquid...