Blow Molding Production Best Practices
With extrusion blow molding production, a good mold can get you a long way toward where you want to be. To get the rest of the way, the process – the type of plastic, processing parameters, head tooling selection, to name several – has to be carefully considered and...
Quality Assurance at Apex
The backbone of any good Quality Assurance program is a solid Quality Management System (QMS). By adhering to the requirements of QMS, we can be assured that the appropriate work is being completed on each product. Apex Plastics is an ISO 9001:2008 registered company....
Understanding Neck Finishes on Plastics Manufacturing.
The Neck Finishes on Plastics Manufacturing of a plastic bottle holds the closure onto the container with protruding threads. When determining the compatibility of continuous thread (CT) closures, it is important that both the bottle neck and closure have the same...
Building A Tool for Manufacturing.
Before we start working on a new project for a customer, we always want to get project specifications first. We have over 40 years of experience in all kinds of blow-molded bottles and containers and building a tool for manufacturing. It is important to work with an...
Blow Molding Troubleshooter – How to Fix Pinch-Off Failures
This article titled "How to Fix Pinch-off Failures" by Lew Ferguson from Parisons was reprinted with persmission by the author. Extrusion blow molded parts often fail at the parison pinch-off seam of the mold parting line. Common forms of part failure at the pinch-off...
Surface Treatments of Three-Dimensional Plastic Bottles
Whether a bottle is manufactured to hold shampoo, barbecue sauce, alcohol, or a myriad of other contents, most of the time it requires a label or imprint before it reaches the marketplace. But unless that bottle undergoes Surface Treatment, the all-important...
Blow Molding Process
The blow molding process is the manufacturing process by which hollow plastic parts like bottles and containers are formed. At Apex, we use a process called continuous extrusion blow molding to turn raw plastic into high-quality finished products for our customers....
Extrusion Blow Molding & Removing Flash
During the extrusion blow molding process a parison is extruded, the bottom and top are pinched off, and then blown into the shape of the cavity. The excess plastic that is pinched off at the top and bottom of the mold cavity is known as flash. Removal of flash is...
Apex Plastics Expands Manufacturing Facility
Extrusion blow molding manufacturer adds offices and production space to grow with clients. Brookfield, Missouri, Sept. 20, 2014 – Extrusion plastics blow molder, Apex Plastics, announced the opening of its newly remodeled and expanded manufacturing facility at 570 S....