Friday, 9 September 2011. Injection moulding uses granulated plastic. The mould is the most important part of manufacturing. Granulated plastic is fed from the hopper into the injection moulding machine. Once the melted plastic has reached the end the screw pushes the melted plastic into the mould. Used to make anything with a slight indentation in.

Good strength to weight ratio. Good resistance to chemical and environmental erosion. Available in a variety of colours by using pigments to colour. Plastics are made by a process of polymerisation and plastics are nearly always modified using a heat process. There are two main types of plastics. Thermoplastics are made of monomer chains so can easily be heated and remoulded.

Project 2 - High Tech - Matt Black. Saturday, 10 September 2011. The simplest way to form plastic is to bend hot sheet material around a form to bend it into shape. Friday, 9 September 2011. Good Electrical and Thermal insulators. Good Strength to Weight ratio. Generally good resistance to atmospheric and chemical erosion.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012. It must also not use any patented invention ideas. The invention must also be new and not have been made public at any time. Patents must also contain a inventive step; a inventive step is where the product must be able to be produced or be able to be used to produce products. What do patents cover? Thursda.