Rotational Mold Plastic Containers offer design advantages over other molding processes. With proper design, parts assembled from several pieces molded as one part. This eliminates high fabrication costs. The process also has inherent design strengths, such as consistent wall thickness and strong outside corners that are virtually stress-free. For additional strength, reinforcing ribs can be designed into the part. Along with being designed into the part, adding them to the mold is a possibility.
Rotational molding, rotomolding, or rotocasting is a production process to form hollow parts of limitless size. This is a cost-effective method to produce large plastic parts. Resins are in the mold that heats and rotates slowly, both vertically and horizontally. The simultaneous heating and rotation distributes and fuses the resin on the inner surfaces of the mold. The result is a product that contains seamless parts with a uniform wall thickness with more material in corners to absorb shocks and stresses where they occur most.
Rotational Mold Plastic Containers Then and Now
Rotational molding has had a place in industry since the 1940?s. Limited to vinyl plastisols in liquid form, the materials prior to 1961 were hard to use. They were primarily in the manufacture of novelty items such as artificial fruit, mannequins, children’s toys, and hollow display items. What is new in rotational molding in recent years relates not to plastisols but to powdered resins of about 35 mesh which have triggered improvements in equipment design and the overall technology, making this technique among the major plastics processing methods of today.
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