How Industrial Plastics Are Made
If you are familiar with plastic injection molding, you may be interested to know where the process starts. Before plastic injection molders can make items, raw industrial plastics must be derived from oil. The process starts with raw oils; in fact, these are the same kinds of oils that are used to make the gas that fuels your vehicles. The oils are mixed with several other compounds and are eventually made into a liquid plastic. This plastic is cooled and then cut into plastic pellets. These plastic pellets are then shipped to plastic injection molding factories where they become hair combs, car parts, and medical equipment that save lives every single day. They are also shipped to manufactures that make industrial plastics like plastic tubes and sheets of plastic.