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47. What the automotive industry Sees in Aluminum Injection Molds

Plastics News had a great article in April on the use of aluminum injection custom molds for the automotive industry. As the automotive industry goes through a major correction, it is forcing them to think more directions about how they manufacture parts.

Never before has an automotive manufacturing company considered using aluminum injection molds to fulfill their injection molding needs. Soft tooling (aluminum molds) have always been considered a poor man's solution to production tooling. Times are now changing. As stated in the piece, Honda has produced over 400,000 shots of the aluminum injection molds. Furthermore, they have found that they can reduce part costs also because they run the molds at a faster cycle time. Overall, Honda has found this to be a huge shift for them in how they look at tooling up a new line.