Did you know that behind every plastic product, there’s a “metal tailor”—the injection mold? Just like a tailor uses scissors and needles to turn fabric into clothes, molds use steel and precision structures to transform plastic pellets into phone cases, toys, and everyday items.
The “sewing skills” of a mold:
- The mold core acts like the tailor’s scissors, determining the product’s shape.
- Ejector pins function like sewing needles, pushing the finished product out.
- The parting line is the tailor’s seam—if not handled well, it leaves unsightly “stitch marks.”
At a toy factory in Vietnam, thanks to the mold “tailor’s” excellent craftsmanship, the dinosaur toys produced had scales so finely detailed that they sold out at three times the price of competitors’ products!
Pro tip: Choosing a mold manufacturer is like picking a tailor—poor craftsmanship results in “loose threads” (burrs), while skilled work delivers luxury-grade quality.