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6. Injection moulding :
The process is
used to produce large quantities of identical plastic items. One of the most
common types of thermoplastics
used in injection moulding is high impact polystyrene (HIPS).Injection
Moulding is the most important plastics manufacturing process. It produces such
small products as bottle tops; sink plugs, children's toys, containers, model
kits, disposable razors and parts of cameras. It is also used to manufacture
larger items such as dustbins, and milk crates.The process can even mould such
large items as dingy hulls and kit car body shell parts.Injection moulding used
to be operated by people on the factory floor but these days it is a form of
highly automated form of production. The whole process is controlled by a
central processing unit.
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