Designing and Building Molds for Aerospace Requirements
The aerospace industry has some unique requirements for many of its plastic components, primarily because the polymers used for them are typically high-temperature, and glass-fiber and carbon-filled engineering thermoplastics. A supplier of molds and molded/machined components for this industry must understand that the conventional mold design approach does not accommodate the thermal expansion challenges typically associated with these materials.
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Midwest Mold has successfully partnered with a customer on a government aerospace radar sensing device cover. During the project Midwest Mold built pre-production and production tooling used in F15 fighter jets. The Midwest Mold Team created value during R&D and then was awarded the production work by convincing the customer to validate manufacturability for a proprietary polymer. This resulted in cost avoidance for the customer by not prematurely kicking off production tooling that didn’t perform.