Engineering

Turn our design, tooling and production expertise into your competitive advantage

Customers often come to us with a design that feels ready to move forward — and that’s a great start. In injection molding, most parts still benefit from thoughtful refinement to ensure a smooth, cost-effective path to production. That’s when the R&D Plastics engineering team takes a closer look — identifying opportunities to refine the design, reduce downstream risk and build the tool right the first time.

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Engineering That Moves Projects Forward

As an engineering-driven company, we believe this critical service is the difference between a vendor who “makes parts” and one who protects your budgets, timelines and reputation. Working with product designers, engineers and other customers to optimize their products helps ensure problem-free production that produces the highest-quality parts — and that’s our ultimate goal, every time.

Collaboration When it Counts

R&D Plastics provides engineering support from our first meeting until it’s time to manufacture. We provide advice and assistance on:

Material selection
Part design for tooling
Design-for-manufacturing support
Managing mold design, construction and qualification

Explore our Case Studies to see how engineering adds real value to your investment.

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Versatile Experience

Our engineering expertise comes from producing plastic injection molded parts for a wide variety of industries for more than three decades. We’ve helped our clients produce precision parts using virtually all thermoplastic materials. And our engineering services are part of a complete, one-partner continuum that moves through manufacturing and finishes with assembly, decoration and packaging.

Handling Complexities With Confidence

R&D’s engineering support helps ensure that intricate, multi-component don’t complicate your process or create unnecessary delays. We routinely assist with design challenges, including: