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Industrial Storage Bins, Water Tanks and… Lawn Flamingos?

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Industrial storage bins, water tanks and… lawn flamingos? What do these three products have in common? They all can be produced by rotational molding companies. If rotational molding could be described in one word, that word would be “versatile.” Rotational molding can be used to meet the needs of all kinds of different industrial and commercial operations. Rotomolding can be used for the creation of heavy-duty industrial storage tanks and bins, and it can be used for the Continue reading →

Rotational Molding Manufacturers’ Production Stages

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One of the things we haven’t gone over yet in any of the earlier posts about the rotational molding process is that the process often involves several individual stages. I’ve sort of covered what’s involved in each of those stages in earlier posts, but not in detail. In order to understand how the rotational molding process works, you have to understand these stages and what happens during each of them. I’ve included a short video and an Continue reading →

Rotomolding and Innovation

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Dakota Molding Rotational Molding

Rotomolding image courtesy of Dakota Molding.

The industrial revolution is continuous, and we are still experiencing it. I don’t mean to diminish the momentousness of those first decades of the human experience of industry. The jolts and growing pains of that time truly are history. But what we continue to learn about industry is that to be truly industrious is to be innovative; industry leaders become leaders by learning to adapt to changes in the Continue reading →

The Benefits Rotational Molders Offer

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Rotational molders offer an important service that often cannot be fulfilled by other plastic forming processes. Rotational molding can be used for the creation of large products that couldn’t necessarily be created by blow molding or injection molding. But in addition to meeting demands for products that other processes can’t Continue reading →

Roto Moulders Play Important Roles in Industry

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Why are there so many plastic formation processes? It’s true that there is some overlap as far as which machines are capable of which processes. An injection molding machine, for example, could be used to produce a small, solid plastic rod, but an extrusion machine would be the more likely, sensible candidate because extruders are designed specifically for the creation of continuous profiles like rods and Continue reading →

The Rotomold’s Importance to Industry

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Rotomolding is one of the easiest plastic formation processes for me to get my head around. Extrusion is a close second – there’s not much left to the imagination when it comes to that process. But rotomolding seems like it could have been thought up by a second grader. I’m imagining the inventor of the rotomold playing in a sandbox as a young child, packing sand into a bucket and then Continue reading →

Plastic Rotational Moldings and Recycling

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I am fortunate to live in a city with an excellent recycling program. Our city has managed to build up a single-stream recycling system, which means that residents are issued single bins into which all of their plastic, metal and glass recyclables can be loaded at once. The service runs once every other week, and here’s the best part: it’s free. The big plastic bins are Continue reading →

The Novelty of Rotationally Molded Plastics

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Rotational molding seems like kind of an overly elaborate process considering the simple kinds of products it is used to produce. Injection molding, extrusion and even blow molding seem more modest and sensible – they’re more compact, less showy. Consider everything that’s included in the rotational molding process. The process of creating rotationally molded plastics begins when Continue reading →

Rotomoulding and Martini Shakers

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Imagine the following situation. Suppose you have in front of you a large, burning candle and an empty martini shaker. Suppose that there is enough melted wax in the burning candle that it would fill about an eighth of the volume of the martini shaker. Imagine now that you’ve poured the melted wax into the bottom of the martini shaker. If you were to swirl the melted wax around a little, you’d notice that Continue reading →