Over the past decade, the UK injection moulding industry has undergone a fundamental shift in direction. In this blog, TEX Plastics discusses how once the market was heavily weighted toward high-volume, low-margin consumer products, but now the landscape is increasingly defined by technical precision, regulatory compliance, and performance-led engineering.
For more than a decade, the story of materials has been sold as a fight. Plastic against paper. Fossil polymers…Read More
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Among the topics most often discussed in the world of extrusion, one concerns screw durability. It is a delicate subject…Read More
