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When purchasing an injection mold, attention to detail throughout the effort is critical to long-term success and stress-free manufacturing. Some mold design aspects should be considered as early as the start of the product development effort. Others begin when the tool order is placed.  The project manager’s main goal in this process is to keep the customer happy without creating problems for manufacturing.

Here are six tips to consider when buying an injection mold:

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About the Author Chris White is the supervisor for the injection molding department of PTI. He has 20 years of injection molding experience for a wide variety of packaging applications.

PTI is a worldwide resource for preform and package design, package development, rapid prototyping, pre-production prototyping, and material evaluation engineering for the plastic packaging industry. For more information: www.pti-usa.com.

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