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Injection Molding

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Injection molding, defined as a cyclic process for producing identical articles from a mold, is the most widely used polymer processing operation. The main advantage of this process is the capacity of repetitively fabricating parts having complex geometries at high production rates.

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Zheng, R., Tanner, R.I., Fan, XJ. (2011). Introduction. In: Injection Molding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21263-5_1

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