Advantages of Over Molding for Plastic Components

Injection molding has made plastics an integral part of everyday life around the world. Major industries like medical, consumer, safety and military applications have been modernized and streamlined thanks to the development of industrial plastics and the cutting edge technology of injection molding. This is also true with the process known as over molding. In fact over molding is present on many of the personal electronics we use everyday. They may not know what it is, they may not care, but the fact is people rely on the over molding process to make their work, school, hobbies – life in general – much easier.

What is Over Molding?

We all enjoy the lightweight, durability, and pleasing shape, look and feel of modern plastics. Especially when it comes to the numerous handheld items we have built our modern lives around. In fact many of them would not be so easy to hold on to at all if it weren’t for over molding. The gripping areas of cell phones, car steering wheels, even your potato peeler are the result of the advancements in over molding. Basically it is the process of molding two different plastics, one on top of, or around, the other. This results in a single structure that’s strong and rigid on the inside yet flexible, colorful, and easy to hold on the outside.