The unemployment rate in my county is 2.2%. The unemployment rate in all the counties around me are 2.0% or less. (1) The population of my county is projected to drop by 0.4% by 2040, the employable part of the population will drop by 0.3% in that same time frame. (2) The story isn’t unique […]

Increasingly, there seems to be a sentiment that rewards accomplishment, without regard for, or ignoring the means at which the gains were attained. The story of “winning at all cost” has been around for some time, usually in the sports world. Sometimes applied in stories of the mega-corporate world. Now it appears that the sentiment […]

We are taught to have the 30 second elevator speech prepared. To communicate who PlastiCert is, what services we provide and how we can benefit a company. For years I opened with our being a plastic injection molder. Recently, I’ve changed that to a description lest often heard. More accurately, we are a composites injection […]

An RFQ for a custom mold and molded part is not like getting a volume catalog price. There needs to be some back and forth communication and major assumptions made to arrive at an accurate price for both. When assessing a quotation you receive from an injection molder, the mold and piece part price are […]

Shrinkage in the molding sense, (with all due respect to George from The Jerry Seinfeld show), is referring to the contraction of a plastic/composite after it has been melted, shot into a mold and is in the process of cooling. The majority of the shrinkage occurs while the part is still in the mold. The […]

Today’s controversy about 3D printed guns has brought the technology further into everyday life. Plastic guns have been around for decades. You can machine pieces of solid plastic into various parts, and then assemble them into a gun capable of firing. They were made illegal many years ago. The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 makes […]