Category Archives: Molded Products
Your Customers Love Their Furniture – Help Protect it From Scratches

Delicate glass dining room tables, sturdy oak coffee tables, and beautiful granite countertops are all expensive. No homeowner wants to see their treasured piece of furniture marred by a long, unsightly scrape or scratch. Yet, even small electronic devices can scratch sensitive surfaces if they are dropped onto a table,…
Product Feature – Round Rubber Bumpers
Determining the Strength of a Product Using the Durometer

Durometer is one of several measures of the hardness of a material. Hardness may be defined as a material’s resistance to permanent indentation and is often used as a measure of hardness in polymers, elastomers, and rubbers. Durometer, like many other hardness tests, measures the depth of an indentation in…
Advantages of Trivalent Chromate Plating Over Hexavalent Chromate Plating

Chromate plating is a type of conversion coating used to passivate (create a protective shell) on steel, aluminum, zinc, cadmium, copper, silver, magnesium, and tin alloys. It is primarily used as a corrosion inhibitor, primer, decorative finish, or to retain electrical conductivity. What advantages does trivalent chromate plating have over…
Thermosets and Thermoplastics

Thermosets and Thermoplastics are polymers. A polymer is a chain of units of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and/or silicon. Natural polymers which appear in nature are, tree saps that produce amber, tar, shellac, and even animal horns. The main difference between thermoset and thermoplastic based products is that thermoset products are…